Title: Russell, H.

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 affectedcolored citizenspleen largemesenteric glands enlargedelevated Peyer's patches along ileum to ileo-cæcal valveelevated solitary glands, with softened white centres, in ileum up to ileo-cæcal valve

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8476

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CASE 147.—H. Russell, citizen; colored. Died June 24, 1865. Post-mortem examination: The lungs and heart were normal. The spleen was large and hard; the mesenteric glands enlarged. A series of elevated Peyer's patches of all sizes, honey-combed and with constricted bases, extended from the ileo-cæcal valve along the ileum; the solitary glands for eight or ten inches from the valve were elevated and had softened white centres. [Specimen 565, Med. Sect., Army Medical Museum, taken from this case, shows also hypertrophied villi, giving the ileum a velvety appearance, seen in plate facing this page.]—Act. Ass't Surg. W. C. Minor, L'Ouverture Hospital, Alexandria, Va.

PLATE. THICKENED PEYER'S PATCH AND ENLARGED SOLITARY FOLLICLES. No. 565. MEDICAL SECTION.