Title: Stewart, Alfred

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 883.

Keywords:on certain local diseasesdiseases of the kidneysold adhesions of lungskidneys small, dark-colored externally, congested internallyuremia, uræmiakidney abscess, size of walnut

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e11735

TEI/XML: med.d1e11735.xml


CASE 8.—Private Alfred Stewart, substitute; age 27; admitted Oct. 21, 1864. Died 31st, from uræmia. Post-mortem examination: The pia mater was slightly congested; the brain healthy. The viscera were normal except that the lungs showed some old adhesions, and the kidneys were small, dark-colored externally and congested internally, the left presenting also an abscess the size of a walnut.—Second Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.