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- 11 Mar 1878-20 Mar 1878 (Creation)
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Occupation or role: Bootmaker
Gender: Male
Age: 55
Date of admission: 11 Mar 1878
Date of death: 20 Mar 1878
Disease (transcribed): Weak heart – no important structural lesion – Dysentery. Old intestinal ulcers
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Dysentery (Intestines); Ulcer (Intestines);
Admitting doctor: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William
Medical notes: 'History. A Healthy man previously; without constitutional peculiarity: temperate in liquor: In the spring of 1875 diarrhoea commenced, with blood and slime in the motions: it continued at intervals till October 1876. He was in India during all this time. He left the country in 1877, arriving in England during July. From the following October diarrhoea was present to the extent of 4-20 motions daily, no blood or slime was passed, the looseness of the bowels was aggravated by cold. He uniformly lost flesh while the diarrhoea lasted, and recovered it in the intervals: Cough 1 mo. [month] before admn [admission]: onset sudden, with nasal catarrh. Lumbar pain and difficult micturition 1 week'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, intestine, brain
Type of incident: n/a
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- Wadham, William (Subject)
- Ewart, William (Subject)
- Owen, Herbert Isambard (Subject)