aka Melvin Charles Brown. Cenotaph and Monument at memorial # 14013595.
Enlisted and mustered in on 17 February 1864, Company G, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; died of disease in the Cumberland Hospital, Maryland on 4 November 1864.
"Clinical Records of the Continuing Fevers. -- Typho-Malarial and Typhoid Fever. -- Disorganization of the parotid gland. -- Case 50. — Private Melvin Brown, Co. G, 23d Ohio; age 18; was admitted Oct. 17, 1864, having been sick for four months. He was much emaciated and unable to walk; he had no appetite; his abdomen was tympanitic and tender, bowels loose, tongue smooth, dry and shining, lips dry and parched. skin dry and hot, pulse 112. Quinine, iron, Dover's powder, beef-essence and stimulants were ordered, and glycerine applied to the tongue and lips. On the 22d crepitus was heard over the middle parts of both lungs. On the 21th epistaxis recurred about every two hours and the parotid glands began to swell. The submaxillary glands became involved on the 27th. Pus was discharged from the left ear on the 29th. Nevertheless the patient rested well at night, had some appetite and was hopeful. Carbonate of animonia was given on account of the cough. Pus was discharged from the right ear on the 31st and the eye of that side was closed by the increasing swelling. Next day there was a bed-sore on the sacrum. The pulse became very weak and almost imperceptible. He died November 5. — Cumberland Hospital, Md." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
aka Melvin Charles Brown. Cenotaph and Monument at memorial # 14013595.
Enlisted and mustered in on 17 February 1864, Company G, 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a Private; died of disease in the Cumberland Hospital, Maryland on 4 November 1864.
"Clinical Records of the Continuing Fevers. -- Typho-Malarial and Typhoid Fever. -- Disorganization of the parotid gland. -- Case 50. — Private Melvin Brown, Co. G, 23d Ohio; age 18; was admitted Oct. 17, 1864, having been sick for four months. He was much emaciated and unable to walk; he had no appetite; his abdomen was tympanitic and tender, bowels loose, tongue smooth, dry and shining, lips dry and parched. skin dry and hot, pulse 112. Quinine, iron, Dover's powder, beef-essence and stimulants were ordered, and glycerine applied to the tongue and lips. On the 22d crepitus was heard over the middle parts of both lungs. On the 21th epistaxis recurred about every two hours and the parotid glands began to swell. The submaxillary glands became involved on the 27th. Pus was discharged from the left ear on the 29th. Nevertheless the patient rested well at night, had some appetite and was hopeful. Carbonate of animonia was given on account of the cough. Pus was discharged from the right ear on the 31st and the eye of that side was closed by the increasing swelling. Next day there was a bed-sore on the sacrum. The pulse became very weak and almost imperceptible. He died November 5. — Cumberland Hospital, Md." -- The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion. Part III, Volume I. (3rd Medical volume) by U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, 1888.
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