Title: Ginder, Hiram

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 353.

Keywords:post-mortem recordscontinued feverstyphoid feverentered as typhoid, but the clinical histories suggestive of malarial complicationsPeyer's patches ulcerated and the large intestine also implicateddeaf, not deliriousteeth covered with sordesrespiration embarrassedpleuritic adhesions, dark bloody serum in opposite pleural sacmesenteric glands enlarged and filled with dark bloodmucous coat of ileum and cæcum thickened and inflamedPeyer's patches thickened and commencing ulceration

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e7608

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CASE 100.—Private Hiram Ginder, Co. B, 57th Pa.; age 17; was admitted Nov. 2, 1864, his previous history being unknown. He was deaf but not delirious; skin yellow, cheeks flushed and murky, respiration hurried, pulse 110, teeth covered with sordes, tongue, lips and gums dry, cracked and oozing blood. On the 5th some cough was noted; the respiration became more embarrassed and the cheeks darker. He died on the 7th. He was treated with turpentine, camphor and spirit of nitre, counter-irritation to chest, beef-essence and milk-punch. Post-mortem examination: Pleuritic adhesions on left side; four ounces of dark bloody serum in right pleural sac; congestion of lungs posteriorly and hepatization of part of upper lobe of right lung; heart normal. Mesenteric glands enlarged and filled with dark blood; mucous coat of ileum and cæcum thickened and inflamed; fifteen Peyer's patches, from one-fourth inch in diameter to one and a half by two and a half inches, thickened and some showing commencing ulceration. Spleen large and soft; liver normal in size but yellow; gall-bladder large, containing three ounces of bile; kidneys normal.—Act. Ass't Surg. Thomas Bowen, Second Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.