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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    lid) and somewhat crepitant. Neither blood nor fluid flowed freely on cutting into it. The minute bronchi were somewhat thick- ened in their walls, .so as to point when cut across, but rather light than d;<! k violet in color. The right lung was also entirely adherent by close and old adhesions. Was solid in substance, non-crepitant, more softened than the lei't lower lobe, so as to be pushed through rather easily, decidedly more like purulent infiltration, so that the lower and the posterior portion of the whole lung tore away on removal and re- mained mostly adherent to pleura. In the lower part of the lower lobe • of puriform substance met with, and this was only a depot of size of pea. The substance was neither running with blood nor serum. •1. The liver was not very large, was dark and filled with blood. It was adherent by firm membranous hand, to stomach, transverse colon an* to the anterior abdominal wall. The spleen was small. The kidneys wete not very large. CHRONIC DIARRHCEA. .A.ntoi>w;v, hours after death. *+* psy of Oscar F. Daniels, a white soldier, made hours af- ter deal/i, March 3d, 18G4. A. Extremely emaciated, B. SECTIO CADAVER IF. 1. The lungs almost met in anterior mediastinum. No heart clot; only black coagulum slightly streaked with a very fat like diaphanous superficial white clot in auriclelof righl side. Left lung had a few old adhesions, and some fresh ones of recent lymph, on anterior surface of upper lobe. Substance wholly crepitant (and vesicular?) Bronchi quite natural, with a little frothy fluid. A few streaks of hepatization in anterior part of upper lobe that hardly reached to the surface. The ■ly injected, but fully crepitant. (There would have been disease of left upper lobe? Phthisical?) 2. The li aml tne mesenteric glands all the way to ilio-colic valve. Yet no trace of ulceration was found in the intestines. They w ere In many places thickened and deeply inject- part of the ilia, but were very thin nearer i]on The ki(jn The contents of the ilia were yellow and ■1,)r