Title: Boyd, Norman

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 large intestine also implicatedadmitted moribundsordes on teethlungs engorged, pleuræ adherentPeyer's glands ulcerated above ileo-cæcal valvemultiple ulcers below ileo-cæcal valve, several nearly perforated intestine

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e8794

TEI/XML: med.d1e8794.xml


CASE 161.—Private Norman Boyd, Co. B, 1st Conn. Heavy Art., was admitted July 25, 1864, in moribund condition; tongue dark brown, dry and cracked; sordes on teeth; involuntary passages from bowels. He died comatose next day. Post-mortem examination five hours after death: Body not much emaciated. The lungs were engorged and the pleuræ adherent. Peyer's glands were slightly ulcerated for the space of eight inches above the ileo-cæcal valve, and extending for six inches below it were twenty or thirty ulcers, several of which nearly perforated the intestine; the rest of the intestine was apparently healthy.—Fairfax Seminary Hospital, Va.