"Clinical Records of Malarial Disease...Congestive fever. -- Case 47. -- Private John Boman [sic.], Co. B, 5th Ill. Cav., was admitted September 1,1863, having had diarrhoea for three days. Early on the following morning he was found unconscious, with sluggish respiration, quick feeble pulse and clammy yellow skin. He had vomited viscid dark-green matters and passed involuntary stools which were offensive and bloody. A tablespoonful was given every hour of a mixture containing thirty grains of quinine in two ounces of cinnamon-water acidulated with aromatic sulphuric acid. At 4 p. m. the pulse was better. Fifteen grains of chlorate of potash were ordered to be taken every four hours with stimulants and beef-tea. He rallied much during the night, but in the morning relapsed into his previous condition. The administration of quinine was resumed, but death occurred at 5 P. M. -- Union Hospital, Memphis, Tenn." -- 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.
"Clinical Records of Malarial Disease...Congestive fever. -- Case 47. -- Private John Boman [sic.], Co. B, 5th Ill. Cav., was admitted September 1,1863, having had diarrhoea for three days. Early on the following morning he was found unconscious, with sluggish respiration, quick feeble pulse and clammy yellow skin. He had vomited viscid dark-green matters and passed involuntary stools which were offensive and bloody. A tablespoonful was given every hour of a mixture containing thirty grains of quinine in two ounces of cinnamon-water acidulated with aromatic sulphuric acid. At 4 p. m. the pulse was better. Fifteen grains of chlorate of potash were ordered to be taken every four hours with stimulants and beef-tea. He rallied much during the night, but in the morning relapsed into his previous condition. The administration of quinine was resumed, but death occurred at 5 P. M. -- Union Hospital, Memphis, Tenn." -- 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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