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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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rger, is represented in the chromo plate facing page 524. The patient wasa soldier who died in Judiciary Square hospital during the summer of 1863. His diseasewas recorded as chronic diarrhoea. The specimen represents a portion of the descendingcolon, and is reproduced from a drawing made at the Museum by Mr. Hermann Faber.The colon was much thickened (^th to Jth of an inch in thickness) and considerably con-tracted. The mucous surface was of a bright red color, not unlike that of a granulatingwound. It presented a number of small follicular ulcers, some of them round, othersstellate, and some larger ulcers apparently resulting from the extension of the smaller ones;these ulcers for the most part had blackened bases. Thin patches of yellowish pseudo-membrane adhered in places to the mucous surface between the ulcers, theexpression ofa diphtheritic inflammation by which the original follicular ulceration has been considerablyobscured. Unfortunately no history of the case was preserved.
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The colon is thickened imic SECT, rv.) MORBID ANATOMY. 519 The extreme dimensions of the erosions, which occasionally result from the extensionof follicular ulcers, are well illustrated by the plate facing page 526, which is a reproductionof a photograph of No. 195, Medical Section. The following is an account of the case: CASE 9(>4.—Sergeant A. L. Manchester, company K, 15:2(1 New York volunteers; age 23; was enlisted September 27,1802. and continued to do duty with his company until March, 1S63. During much of this time lie had diarrhoea, which, how-ever, did not prevent him from remaining on duty. March 2d, being then on duty as one of the guard at Douglas hospital,Washington, D. C, he was attacked by measles, with dry skin, pulse 110, and dark tongue. At the time of this attack liewas a good deal broken down by the disorder of his bowels, and when, on the 5th of March, he was transferred to a bedin the hospital, the entry in the register was measles and enteritis. The stools

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