Title: Riley, Martin

Source text: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Volume 1 (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1888), 387.

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 implicatedbronchial tubes contained purulent secretionsmall point of pus found at apex of heartmitral valve thickened and roughenedstomach nearly filled with bileileum inflamed and Peyer's patches ulceratedascending colon congested in spots

Civil War Washington ID: med.d1e9476

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CASE 191.—Private Martin Riley, Co. C, 122d Pa.; admitted April 21, 1863. Continued fever. Died May 24. Post-mortem examination twenty hours after death: The body was much emaciated. The lungs were healthy, but the bronchial tubes contained a purulent secretion. The heart was softened and pale; a small point of pus was found at its apex; the mitral valve was thickened and slightly roughened. The stomach was nearly filled with bile. The liver was healthy; the gall-bladder nearly empty. The duodenum and jejunum were normal; the ileum inflamed and Peyer's patches ulcerated; the ascending colon congested in spots, the transverse and descending portions healthy. The kidneys were normal.—Act. Ass't. Surg. A. H. Haven, Harewood Hospital, Washington, D. C.