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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Alyssa Olson The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.) Washington, DC Government Printing Office Part 2 Volume 1 1879 147 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion diarrhœa and dysentery fatal cases of diarrhœa and dysentery, with accounts of the morbid appearances observed from the Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C. acute diarrhœa liver fatty ileum and colon congested in patches mucous membrane softened in ascending and descending colon autopsy performed additional proofing of transcription and encoding, identified keyword terms case text extracted and transformed from larger file enrich encoding, proof and edit encoding and editing

Case from the case-book and medical descriptive lists of the HAREWOOD HOSPITAL, Washington, D. C., Surgeon Thomas Antisell, U. S. V., in charge from October, 1862, to September, 1863:

CASE 287.—Private Joseph Gerard, company F, 140th New York volunteers; admitted August 18, 1863. Acute diarrhœa. Died, September 14th, at 4 A. M. Autopsy: Not much emaciation. The lungs were somewhat congested. The heart and pericardium normal. The liver was fatty, and weighed about seventy-two ounces; the gall-bladder was distended. The spleen normal. The mucous membrane of the stomach was thickened, softened, and slightly congested near the cardiac orifice. The duodenum was slightly congested; the jejunum healthy. The ileum and colon were congested in patches; in the ascending and descending colon the mucous membrane was softened. The rectum was slightly congested. The kidneys were normal.