Title: Graff, Albert

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 affectedulceration of Peyer's patchesteeth covered with sordes

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8052

TEI/XML: med.d1e8052.xml


CASE 121.—Private Albert Graff, Co. D, 4th N. Y., was admitted Nov. 30, 1864, with typhoid fever, much exhausted by his journey from City Point, Va. His tongue was dry and brown, teeth covered with sordes, bowels tender; he was affected with low delirium and subsultus. He died December 3, having had involuntary fæcal passages and retention of urine for twenty-four hours before death. Post-mortem examination: Extensive ulceration of Peyer's patches.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.