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 The following are responsible for particular readings or for changes to this file, as noted: Matthew Bosley Elizabeth Lorang Stacey Berry Elisabeth Tracey The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion Washington, DC Government Printing Office Part 3 Volume 1 1888 350 Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion post-mortem records continued fevers typho-malarial fever entered as typho-malarial with or without a record of symptoms to substantiate the diagnosis condition of Peyer's patches variously stated, but not ulcerated; intestines more or less affected, but no ulceration of the ileum solitary follicles in small intestine dark purple, enlarged, and ulcerated vermiform appendix dark-colored and presented ulcerated patches large intestine gray, solitary glands conspicuous, ulcers in sigmoid flexure and rectum additional proofing of transcription and encoding, edited and added keyword terms additional proofing of transcription and encoding additional proofing of transcription and encoding case text extracted and transformed from larger file Encoding and Proofing Initial Checking OCR Text to PDF file,

CASE 84.—Serg't John H. Peters, Co. E, 120th Pa.; admitted April 20, 1863. Diagnosis—typho-malarial fever. Died 30th. Post-mortem examination nine hours after death: Some rigor mortis. Brain weighed forty-six ounces and a half. Mucous membrane of trachea pale. Right lung fifteen ounces and a half, healthy; left lung thirteen ounces and three-quarters, dark blue, its apex purple. Heart normal; soft black clot in right ventricle; small narrow clot in left ventricle. Liver forty-nine ounces and a half, dark purple externally, paler on section, rather soft; capsule of Glisson readily torn. Spleen eight ounces and a quarter, soft, dark mulberry color, trabeculæ conspicuous. Pancreas four ounces and one-quarter, natural. Stomach mottled dark and pale red. Mucous membrane of small intestine generally pale, with irregular patches of congestion; Peyer's patches pale; solitary follicles, especially in lower part, dark purple in color, enlarged and ulcerated; mucous membrane of vermiform appendix dark-colored and presenting two ulcerated patches one-eighth of an inch in length. Large intestine gray throughout; solitary glands conspicuous; three ulcers in the lower part of the bowel—the first, one inch in diameter, in the sigmoid flexure, the others, smaller, in the middle portion of the rectum. Kidneys congested.—Ass't Surg. Harrison Allen, U. S. A., Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C.