Title: Pilock, James

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. (1861-65.), Part 2, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1879), 183.

Keywords:diarrhœa and dysenteryfatal cases of diarrhœa and dysentery, with accounts of the morbid appearances observedfrom Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C.chronic dysenteryboth lungs firmly adherent to diaphragmlower small intestine much congesteddiverticulum above ileocæcal valvemucous membrane of large intestine studded with ulcersautopsy performed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e41266

TEI/XML: med.d1e41266.xml


Case from the case-book of LINCOLN HOSPITAL, Washington, D. C.; Surgeon J. Cooper McKee, U. S. A., in charge.


CASE 418.—Private James Pilock, company B, 20th Indiana volunteers; age 18; admitted from the depot hospital of the 2d Army Corps, City Point, Virginia, December 16 , 1864. Chronic dysentery. Treatment: Tonics, alteratives, and counter-irritants. Died, January 12, 1865.—Acting Assistant Surgeon John Morris. Autopsy five hours after death: Height five feet seven inches; body rigid and very much emaciated. The larynx and trachea were normal. Both lungs were firmly adherent to the diaphragm, and presented evidences of slight bronchitis in their lower lobes; the right lung weighed eight ounces, the left eleven. The heart weighed six ounces and a half; its right side contained a very large fibrinous clot, the left side a long vermiform one. The liver, spleen, and kidneys appeared to be normal; the liver weighed fifty-one ounces and a half; the spleen five ounces; the kidneys four ounces each. The lower part of the small intestine was very much congested; a diverticulum, two inches long and half an inch in diameter, was found five feet and a half above the ileocæcal valve. The mucous membrane of the large intestine was studded with ulcers.—Acting Assistant Surgeon H. M. Dean.