Title: Gilly, Joseph

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 383.

Keywords:post-mortem recordscontinued feverstyphoid fever, clinical history insufficientPeyer's patches ulcerated, large intestine also implicatedtyphoid feverlungs filled with bloodliver enlargedPeyer's patches in lower ileum and solitary follicles of first part of colon thickened and ulceratedmesenteric glands enlarged, filled with dark matter

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e9017

TEI/XML: med.d1e9017.xml


CASE 169.—Private Joseph Gilly, Co. D, 6th Pa. Heavy Art.; age 47; was admitted Oct. 30, 1864, with typhoid fever, and died November 3. Post-mortem examination nine hours after death: Marked rigor mortis; slight emaciation; suggillation posteriorly. Lungs very dark, filled with blood; bronchi slightly congested; bronchial glands normal; ventricles of heart dilated and containing small dark clots; liver enlarged, pale; spleen enlarged, darkened, much softened; mucous coat of stomach and jejunum normal; Peyer's patches in the lower two feet of ileum and solitary follicles of first six inches of colon thickened and ulcerated; mesenteric glands enlarged, filled with dark matter, especially three near the cæcum; kidneys congested.—Second Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.