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- 3 Aug 1860-8 Aug 1860 (Creation)
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Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Aug 1860
Date of death: 8 Aug 1860
Disease (transcribed): Fatty heart. Oxalic acid poisoning
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Poisoning
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had indulged in habits of intemperance for several years, he confessed to drunkenness three or four days in the week and said that he had had delirium tremens repeatedly. On the evening of the third of August when excited with liquor he purchased and swallowed three pennyworth of oxalic acid. When brought to the hospital immediately after, his hands and feet were cold and the pulse very feeble’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, throat, abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma / accident
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- Page, William Emanuel (Subject)
- Holmes, Timothy (Subject)
- Sturges, Octavius (Subject)
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Catalogued by J. Ahvensalmi, Apr 2020