Title: Morrow, J. C.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 381.

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 affectedileum extensively ulceratedPeyer's patch above the ileo-cæcal valve presented distinct ulcersperforation with exudation of lymph onto peritoneal coat

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8591

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CASE 154.—Private J. C. Morrow, Co. E, 110th Ohio; admitted Nov. 23, 1863. Died 28th. Post-mortem examination thirty-nine hours after death: The brain was healthy. The lungs were somewhat engorged posteriorly. The heart was flabby and contained a small clot in both sides, larger in the right than in the left. The liver was firm and somewhat congested, its surface of an intense bluish-slate color, which coloration extended two lines into the parenchyma; the gall-bladder contained an ounce of dark-brown bile; the spleen was of a purple color with an admixture of brown and was extremely firm; the pancreas was white and not very firm. The ileum, in its six lower feet, was extensively ulcerated; about two feet above the ileo-cæcal valve was a Peyer's patch of an irregular circular shape, presenting three distinct ulcers with high blackish walls and stone-gray bases, in one of which was a small perforation which had caused some exudation of lymph on the peritoneal coat. The kidneys were healthy.—Ass't Surg. H. Allen, U. S. A., Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C.