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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    tines. Old firm ligamentous adhesions of liver to transverse colon. TYPHOID PNEUMONIA. i / Autopsy, sonic *Y hours after death. Autopsy of Friday Kanawha, a (Sandwich Islander) colored sol~ dicr, 'i.iude some seven hours after death, Feb. 2oth, 18G4. A. Tattoo marks of whales and vessels &c. B. SEOTIO CADAVER IS. 1. Effusion and lymph in abundance at vertex. Some effusion in ■ventricles. Substance of brain hardened. 2. Emphysema and yeilow effusion of lower part of anterior medias- tinum apparently from right lung. Sliglrt effusion in pericardial cavity. White fibrin clot in right side/wndi b'laek coagulum.', Thin fibrin frn-t wliuliy-lillwl «p the .■uiri'-ulo-viMtliiciibr- openim*. Fine Ligamentous* coxdsj like those of the valves, but longer and finer, were found on the valye of Eustachius, and reaching over to the superior pillar of the fass,q ovalis. On the left side a small fibrin clot was found. WJjen .drawn out of the aorta it was found to consist of two separate portions; the one quite firm and white, ah tut the thickness of a quijlf had some two inches up, been folded on itself, and this, with its/fold, had been included in a thin, softer and whiter sheet of fibrin^lat, There were _jiulications of a deposit intermediate to 4lte-4w«r-''The left lung was crepitant, with only recent adhesions ! ehind. Its substance was con- gested with blood, and spotted all through with a somewhat more solid and deeper red substance, usually, if net always, having in its center an enlarged and bypeitrophied bronchus filled with a yellow puriform fluid. When cut into, thes ■ I oints protruded or pointed up from the substance of the lung. The n d faded away into general tissue from which bl ' pretty freely. The right lung was crepitant only in the two upper Io ies, which were, however, congested and with red r.unified (?) tissue around the enlarged bronchial tubes. The lower lobe was mor or posterior angle and edge had a passive cedematous (Hasse) mass of a greenish dirty color and wholly exsanguine. The tissue appeared almost semi-transparent, so great was the amount of water. The surface of the bronchi was intense- ly inflamed. The secretion of the bronchi, examined by the microscope, consisted of vast numbers of granules, a great many fat globules, some of.which were twici lood corpuscle, and of pus and blood cells. In one portion taken from the cedematous part spoken of, an extremely minute Nematoid worm was seen. In wanner weather tiu-e would' prolia] ly ha,YS proved gangrenous ( Y) There was a strong, gjrl | 0f pus for twelve or fifteen hours before death,