Title: Booth, Robert

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 378.

Keywords:the continued feverspost-mortem records of continued feverscases reported as typhoid fever, the clinical history insufficient or absentPeyer's patches ulcerated and the ileum or small intestine only affectedcondition of intestinal glands usually found in typhoid casesdelirium, sordes, and involuntary discharges from bowels

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8021

TEI/XML: med.d1e8021.xml


CASE 120.—Private Robert Booth, Co. A, 147th Pa.; age 21; was admitted Nov. 4, 1863, delirious, with dry tongue and sordes, and on the second day after admission involuntary discharges from the bowels. He died on the 13th. Post-mortem examination showed "that condition of the intestinal glands usually found in typhoid cases."—Act. Ass't Surg. James Robertson, 1st Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.