Title: Cunningham, Benjamin

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 229.

Keywords:clinical recordscontinued feverstypho-malarial and typhoid feversseminary hospital casesepistaxisdiarrhœatympanitesvibicesdeafnesstemporary improvement followed by bed-sorespulmonary engorgement

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e2963

TEI/XML: med.d1e2963.xml


CASE 51.—Chills; epistaxis; diarrhœa; tympanites; vibices; deafness, but no delirium or notable cerebral implication; temporary improvement followed by bed-sores, and death probably from pulmonary engorgement.—See case of Private Benjamin Cunningham, Co. D, 86th N. Y., No. 31 of the post-mortem records.