Title: Carey, N. G.

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 affectedlower lobe of lung hepatizedPeyer's patches ulceratedgangrene of ileum

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8468

TEI/XML: med.d1e8468.xml


CASE 146.—Private N. G. Carey, 1st N. J. Cav.; age 18; admitted Jan. 14, 1864. Diagnosis—continued fever. Died 18th. Post-mortem examination: Lower lobe of left lung hepatized; Peyer's patches ulcerated; one inch and a half of ileum gangrenous.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.