Title: Cull, Adam

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 347.

Keywords:post-mortem recordscontinued feverstypho-malarial feverentered as typho-malarial with or without a record of symptoms to substantiate the diagnosisPeyer's patches ulcerated and the large intestine also implicatedtypho-malarial fever and congestion of lungspleuritic adhesions on both sides, right lung congested and crepitant in upper lobePeyer's patches inflamed, many places ulcerated

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e7042

TEI/XML: med.d1e7042.xml


CASE 66.—Private Adam Cull, Co. D, 28th Mich.; age 25; admitted Feb. 13, 1865. Diagnosis—typho-malarial fever and congestion of lungs. Died 19th. Post-mortem examination fourteen hours after death: Well developed; large deposit of fat; recent blister-marks on neck and chest; slight suggillation posteriorly; great rigidity. Pleuritic adhesions on both sides; right lung congested, crepitant in upper lobe. Stomach distended with air; Peyer's patches inflamed, in many places ulcerated; large intestine congested. Liver nutmeg; spleen enlarged; kidneys small; other viscera normal.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.