Title: Clark, Cyrus B.

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 382.

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 affectedulcer of Peyer's patches perforatedperitonitis, serum in the abdominal cavityextravasated blood in lower third of recti muscles

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8698

TEI/XML: med.d1e8698.xml


CASE 157.—Corporal Cyrus B. Clark, Co. B, 15th Vt.; admitted Dec. 14, 1862, with continued fever; died 21st. Post-mortem examination: Peyer's glands were ulcerated and one of the ulcers had perforated. There was general peritonitis and a large quantity of serum in the abdominal cavity. The recti muscles, in their lower third, contained much extravasated blood.—Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.