Jenks, Clarence C. a machine readable transcription Susan C. Lawrence Kenneth M. Price Kenneth J. Winkle 2011 med.d1e41204 Civil War Washington University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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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 178 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 Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C. intermittent fever epilepsy pericardium contained serum brain quite soft ileum had ulcers in process of cicatrization cicatrizing ulcers in colon, especially descending colon and sigmoid flexure 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 of LINCOLN HOSPITAL, Washington, D. C.; Surgeon J. Cooper McKee, U. S. A., in charge.

CASE 401.—Private Clarence C. Jenks, company A, 8th Illinois cavalry; age 29; admitted March 12, 1864. Intermittent fever. Died, April 4th, of epilepsy. Autopsy eighteen hours after death: Height five feet eleven inches; rigor mortis well marked; body somewhat emaciated. The brain weighed forty-nine ounces, and was quite soft. The right lung weighed twenty-three ounces and a half, the left sixteen and a half. The heart weighed eleven ounces. The pericardium contained two ounces of serum. The liver weighed seventy-five ounces and a half. The spleen weighed twenty-five ounces; the pancreas four ounces. The right kidney weighed seven ounces and a half, the left six and a half. The stomach was healthy. There were several patches of congestion in the small intestine, and in the last two feet of the ileum there were several ulcers in the process of cicatrization. Several cicatrizing ulcers were also observed in the colon, especially in the descending colon and sigmoid flexure; they varied from a line to half an inch in diameter.—Acting Assistant Surgeon H. M. Dean.