Title: Fulton, John

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.intermittent fever and chronic diarrhœalarge intestine thickened, with numerous follicular ulcers and cysts about the size of peasmucous membrane congested between ulcers, shreds of pseudomembrane adherent to itsmall cysts collapsed and resemble other ulcersautopsy performed

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e41327

TEI/XML: med.d1e41327.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 433.—Private John Fulton, company B, 16th Pennsylvania cavalry; age 23; admitted from the hospital of the Cavalry Corps, City Point, Virginia, November 14, 1864. Intermittent fever and chronic diarrhœa. Treatment: November 15th: Quinine and a febrifuge mixture. November 30th: Quinine and opium. December 15th: Continue treatment; add stimulants and astringent enemata. The diet throughout consisted of milk and farinaceous food. Died, December 27th. Autopsy by Acting Assistant Surgeon L. M. Osmun: The whole large intestine was thickened, and presented numerous follicular ulcers, and quite a number of cysts about the size of peas; the mucous membrane between the ulcers was congested, and had shreds of pseudomembrane adherent to it. [The condition of the other organs is not recorded.]—Surgeon N. R. Moseley, U. S. V. [No. 527, Medical Section, Army Medical Museum, is from this case. The specimen is a portion of the thickened transverse colon, which presents a number of follicular ulcers, between which there is some adherent pseudomembrane. When first received at the Museum a number of small cysts projected above the surface of the gut; in the alcohol these have collapsed, and the excavations thus made resemble the other ulcers.]