"Post-Mortem Records of the Continued Fevers. -- Cases in which the Diagnosis, Typhoid, is more or less sustained by the Clinical History. -- Case 35. —Private Jacob Davis, Co. I, 63d Pa.; age 21; was admitted Oct. 10, 1863, with emaciation, debility and diarrhoea, a dry, brown tongue, cracked in centre, teeth covered with sordes, respiration quck and feeble and pulse over 90. He lingered without much change until the 18th. when he died. He was given concentrated nourishment and stimulants, sweet spirit of nitre and turpentine emulsion, with nitrate of silver and opium for the diarrhoea. -- Act. Ass't Surg. J. E. Smith, Fairfax Seminary, Va." -- 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.
"Post-Mortem Records of the Continued Fevers. -- Cases in which the Diagnosis, Typhoid, is more or less sustained by the Clinical History. -- Case 35. —Private Jacob Davis, Co. I, 63d Pa.; age 21; was admitted Oct. 10, 1863, with emaciation, debility and diarrhoea, a dry, brown tongue, cracked in centre, teeth covered with sordes, respiration quck and feeble and pulse over 90. He lingered without much change until the 18th. when he died. He was given concentrated nourishment and stimulants, sweet spirit of nitre and turpentine emulsion, with nitrate of silver and opium for the diarrhoea. -- Act. Ass't Surg. J. E. Smith, Fairfax Seminary, Va." -- 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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