Title: Stevens, Martin

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 386.

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 implicatedtyphoid feversmall intestine inflamedsolitary follicles and Peyer's patches ulceratedlarge intestine inflamedmesenteric glands enlargedspleen enlarged

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e9322

TEI/XML: med.d1e9322.xml


CASE 186.—Private Martin Stevens, Co. D, 7th N. C.; age 33; was admitted May 20, 1864, with typhoid fever, and died on the 24th. Post-mortem examination sixteen hours after death: Body rather spare. Lungs congested throughout; left ventricle of heart dilated; small intestine much inflamed; solitary follicles and Peyer's patches ulcerated; large intestine inflamed; mesenteric glands enlarged and softened; liver and kidneys normal; spleen much enlarged and congested.—Lincoln Hospital, Washington, D. C.