Title: Frink, John

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 356.

Keywords:post-mortem recordscontinued feverstyphoid feverentered as typhoid, but the clinical histories suggestive of malarial complicationscondition of Peyer's patches variously stated, but not ulcerated; intestines more or less affectedsevere diarrhœa, gastric irritability, nervous disorderlungs emphysematoussmall intestine inflamed, glands of Peyer congested

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e7928

TEI/XML: med.d1e7928.xml


CASE 113.—Private John Frink, Co. K, 40th N. J.; age 19; admitted June 4, 1865. Typhoid fever. Severe diarrhœa, gastric irritability and nervous disorder were the prominent phenomena. Died 23d. Post-mortem examination twenty-four hours after death: The lungs were emphysematous; the small intestine much inflamed; the glands of Peyer congested; the spleen normal.——Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.