The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part II, Volume I. (2nd Medical volume) (1879) (14760324434)

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Title: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part II, Volume I. (2nd Medical volume)

Year: 1879 (1870s)

Authors: U.S. Army Surgeon General's Office

Subjects: Civil War military medicine Medicine, Military -- History United States Medical care United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Medical and sanitary affairs

Publisher: Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine

Contributing Library: U.S. Army Medical Museum

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ofthe closed glands of the affected portion was generally more marked in the case of thesolitary follicles than in the patches of Peyer. The latter were usually so slightly swollenas hardly to attract attention, even in cases in which the solitary follicles projected as littlepin-head tumors above the surface of the mucous membrane; but the deposits of pigmentalready mentioned as occurring in the protracted cases, and in subjects who had sufferedfrom previous attacks, were even more common in the patches than in the solitary follicles,and gave rise to characteristic appearances which were to be found in a large percentageof the autopsies made during the war. The chromo-lithograph facing this page represents this very common condition, inwhich the pigment deposits remaining after former attacks complicated the appearancesof the more recent process. The specimen was obtained from an autopsy made at theJudiciary Square hospital, Washington, D. O, Assistant Surgeon E. J. Marsh, U. S. A.,

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sect. IV.) _ MORBID ANATOMY. 299 surgeon in charge, and was brought immediately to the Museum, where the water-colordrawing reproduced in the plate was made by Mr. H. Faber. The following very briefhistory of the case was furnished: Case 879.—Private Henry M. Pierce, company K, 25th Maine volunteers, was taken sick while with his regiment nearChantilly, Virginia, March 23, 1863. The diagnosis on the regimental register is simply fever. Continuing to grow worse, hewas sent to Washington and was admitted to Judiciary Square hospital, April 13,1863. Diagnosis, remittent fever. The febrilesymptoms were accompanied hy diarrhoea, from which he had previously suffered several limes. He did well under treatment,and was apparently convalescing, though the diarrhoea still continued to the extent of several stools a day, when pneumoniasupervened and was the cause of death, May 11th. Autopsy: The lower portion of both lungs was hepatized. The greaterpart of the ileum presented the conditions ex

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