Title: Loveland, James

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 380.

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 affectedgangrene of toes and anterior portion of metatarsus of both feetsingle thickened Peyer's patch of upper ileumtwo thickened patches with small ulcers in lower ileum, probably solitary follicles

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8399

TEI/XML: med.d1e8399.xml


CASE 143.—Private James Loveland, Co. G, 4th Vt., was admitted Nov. 23, 1863, moribund. Post-mortem examination: Toes and anterior portion of metatarsus of both feet gangrenous. [Specimens 79 and 80, Med. Sect., Army Medical Museum, constitute the only record: 79, a portion of the upper part of the ileum, shows a single oblong and thickened Peyer's patch; 80, a portion of the lower part, presents two thickened and ulcerated patches and two small ulcers, corresponding probably to solitary follicles.]—Ass't Surg. W. Thomson, U. S. A., Douglas Hospital, Washington, D. C.