Title: Heaman, Jonathan

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 379.

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 affectedPeyer's glands ulceratedlungs and spleen congested

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8173

TEI/XML: med.d1e8173.xml


CASE 131.—Private Jonathan Heaman, Co. H, 57th Pa.; admitted April 30, 1864. Died May 10. Post-mortem examination twenty hours after death: Body much emaciated. Lungs and spleen congested; Peyer's glands ulcerated.—Act. Ass't Surg. C. W. Fillmore, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.