Title: Wood, George

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 384.

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 implicatedstomach and intestinal canal inflamedlarge intestine much ulceratedliver fatty, gall-bladder enormously distendedulcers of Peyer's patches above ileo-cæcal valveulcers penetrated to transverse muscle and to peritoneum in placesenlarged and ulcerated solitary follicles

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e9079

TEI/XML: med.d1e9079.xml


CASE 171.—Private George Wood, Co. B, 1st Bat'y, 2d Me. Light Art.; age 24; was admitted July 25, 1864, in very low condition. He died comatose on the following day. Post-mortem examination twenty-two hours after death: Body extremely emaciated. Stomach and intestinal canal greatly inflamed; large intestine much ulcerated; liver fatty; gall-bladder enormously distended; other organs healthy. [Specimen 420, Med. Sect., Army Medical Museum, which is from this case, shows several large ulcers of Peyer's patches just above the ileo-cæcal valve, penetrating in some places to the transverse muscle and in others to the peritoneum, as also some enlarged and ulcerated solitary follicles.]—Surg. E. Bentley, U. S. V., Third Division Hospital, Alexandria, Va.