Title: McCumber, Daniel

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 214.

Keywords:clinical recordscontinued feverstypho-malarial and typhoid feverstypho-malarial feverfever, remittent type

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e1440

TEI/XML: med.d1e1440.xml


CASE 13.—Private Daniel McCumber, Co. H, 26th Mich. Vols., was admitted November 4, 1863, with typho-malarial fever. The patient was incoherent, constantly endeavoring to get out of bed. He had fever of a remittent type and diarrhœa; pulse 120; respiration feeble. He perspired freely at times, but the delirium continued, the pulse became weaker, and death took place on the 13th.—P. R. Holly, Act. Ass't Surg., U. S. A., Douglas Hospital, Washington, D. C.