Sickness During the War

John Beck contracted typhoid fever when his regiment laid down at Romney, Virginia, and he became extremely ill.  Eventually he began to recover a little bit from this sickness, and was on a path to getting well.  While he was still weak, he began getting severe chills and fever which not only halted his progress, but made it worse.  These chills and fever put him in very poor health, and it was here that his heart disease came on to him.  For treatment, the Surgeon's in the Hospital put fly blisters over his heart, giving him blisters.  One of the nights that John Beck was in the Hospital, the pain that he felt in his heart was so severe that the Surgeon had to inject a medicine directly into his chest, very close to his heart.  He came very close to dying during this incident, and since his condition had grown to this degree, they discharged him due to this disability.