Title: Hayes, James K.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 581.

Keywords:diseases allied to or associated withthe paroxysmal and continued feverscerebro-spinal feverclinical and post-mortem recordsheadache, assumed to be result of debauchpersistent comaeffused blood between membranes of brainlarge clot on side of right hemisphere of braincoagulation of blood inconsistent with theory of cerebro-spinal fever

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e1999

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From the footnote of CASE 99 on p. 581 of Part 3, Vol. 1:


. . . Dr. D. W. PRENTISS submitted as a case of spotted fever the following, which appears on the records of the hospital as one of cerebral apoplexy: Private James K. Hayes, Co. C, 10th V. R. Corps, was admitted Jan. 7, 1865, with headache, assumed to be the result of a debauch. Next day persistent coma came on, and he died on the 10th. Post-mortem examination: Rigor mortis well marked. There was a quantity, about eight ounces, of effused blood between the membranes of the brain and a large clot on the side of the right hemisphere; the substance of the brain was healthy. There were old adhesions of the lungs, and, in the heart, slight induration of the aortic valves. The other organs not examined.—Stanton Hospital, Washington, D. C. The coagulation of the blood is inconsistent with the theory of cerebro-spinal fever in this case . . .