Post mortem examinations made at Knight U.S.A. Gen. Hospital / by W.C. Minor.

  • William Chester Minor
Date:
1864
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Credit: Post mortem examinations made at Knight U.S.A. Gen. Hospital / by W.C. Minor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CL In this case, for several days before death, there was hardly any kulse to be distinguished either at wrist or neck, and perhaps to the sknall quantity of blood that could have gone to the lungs may be attributed the slower chronic inflammation. PNEUMONIA TYPIIOIDES. Autopsy, l^J hours after death- Autopsy of Moses Williams, a colored soldier, made between twelve, and fifteen hours after death, Feb. ith, 18W. B. SECTIO CAVA VUL'IS. 1. No blood on vcrtual section of scalp. A small amount ofcfTusioa under arachnoid at vertex, and some white granular adhesions to plura mater there. Meningeal vessels tf right side apparently more numer- ous and gorged with blood. Those of kit side not so full. Substance of brain slightly hardened and filled with blood so that it flowed after the knife. Ventricles enlarged and filled with fluid. Choroid of a pinkish red color. 9. Pericardium filled with fuid. Bulbus arteriosus highly injected and with a deposit of nearly transparent lymph forming a half ring about it. Heart large and distended on each side, but especially on right side. On posterior surface of left ventricle, near base, there wras a white spot about the size and shape of a stamp. The pleural sides of pericardium were iully injected, but the inner sides were pale, wad not red. In right side of heart there was an interesting group of clots occupying almost the entire cavity. The ventricle was greatly enlarged and softened, especially on the inner surface. These clots seemed to consist of an older white formation, occupying right and posterior sides of auricle and ventricle, and upon this a more recent clot of partially black coagulum, and less definitely formed white coagulum seemed to have been deposited. The older white clot also extended up the conus arteriosus and continued into pulmonary arteries with a distinct cast of the tricuspid valves. It was continued from just beyond the valves by a black coagulum into the right and kit pulmonary arteries,. 1. The left ventricle had also a tolerably well formed white clot .and mixed white and red and black coagula. 2. The hit lung had acfliesn ns on the posterior surface that were recent, and layers of ]y;i:ph could be raised and torn away. Beneath these on the ; :, o; the supe- rior lobe of that side the surtiice was Watched with bright ltd si o;a looking as though it hswHrcsh blood > prii.kh d on it. These were be- neath the serous membrane of the lung. The substance of the Inn was oka softened consistence., of a pale red color, as one might st>pj