Title: Cassel, Jesse

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 346.

Keywords:post-mortem recordscontinued feverstypho-malarial feverentered as typho-malarial with or without a record of symptoms to substantiate the diagnosisPeyer's patches ulcerated, ileum or small intestine only affectedslight ulceration of Peyer's glands

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e6803

TEI/XML: med.d1e6803.xml


CASE 58.—Private Jesse Cassel, Co. C, 179th Pa.; age 24; was admitted July 2, 1863, with typho-malarial fever, which, after a few days, became typhoid and accompanied with diarrhœa. Opiates and astringents failed to restrain the diarrhœa, which became colliquative. He died delirious, picking at the bedclothes, on the 26th. Post-mortem examination "revealed nothing but slight ulceration of Peyer's glands."—Ass't Surg. C. C. Lee, U. S. A., Douglas Hospital, Washington, D. C.