Title: Dill, Baldas

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), 186.

Keywords:diarrhœa and dysenteryfatal cases of diarrhœa and dysentery, with accounts of the morbid appearances observedfrom Emory Hospital, Washington, D. C.chronic diarrhœacolon and rectum ulcerated, mucous membrane between ulcers coated with pseudomembrane in patchesmucous membrane of transverse and descending colon destroyed by large diphtheritic ulcersautopsy performed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e41317

TEI/XML: med.d1e41317.xml


The notes were forwarded, with the specimens, to the Army Medical Museum from EMORY HOSPITAL, Washington, D. C., Surgeon Nathaniel R. Moseley, U. S. V., in charge:


CASE 430.—Private Baldas Dill, company I, 1st Maryland volunteers; age 22; admitted from the field hospital of the 2d Division, 5th Army Corps, September 20, 1864. Chronic diarrhœa. Treatment: Astringents and stimulants. Died, September 23d. Autopsy same day: The colon and rectum were soft and ulcerated, the ulcers presenting a dark-greenish base; the mucous membrane between them was coated with pseudomembrane in patches. [There is no record of the condition of the other organs.]—Surgeon Nathaniel R. Moseley, U. S. V. [Nos. 367 and 368, Medical Section, Army Medical Museum, are from this case. No. 367 is a portion of the transverse, No. 368 of the descending, colon; both are somewhat thickened, and have had the greater part of their mucous membrane destroyed by large diphtheritic ulcers.]