Occupation or role: [Wife of] Policeman
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Jul 1922
Date of death: 13 Sep 1922
Disease (transcribed): Exophthalmic goitre
Disease (standardised): Graves disease (Thyroid gland)
Admitted under the care of: Torrens, James Aubrey
Medical examination performed by: Tross, W.L.[?]
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: Since February 1922 she had complained of palpitation, nervousness, a sensation as of something was pressing on her throat, bad headaches, morning vomiting and proptosis. She had had recent rheumatism.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: No autopsy
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Labourer
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Aug 1922
Date of death: 25 Aug 1922
Disease (transcribed): Exophthalmic goitre. Persistent thymus. Hyperplasia
Disease (standardised): Graves disease (Thyroid gland); Persistent (Thymus gland); Hyperplasia (Lymphoid tissue)
Admitted under the care of: Golla, Frederick Lucien
Medical examination performed by: Tross, W.L.[?]
Post mortem examination performed by: Schuster, Norah Henriette
Medical notes: She had always had an enlarged thyroid. Since the birth of a child in February 1922, it had become larger and caused dysphagia. The patient had got thinner and weaker recently.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Tongue, fauces, thyroid, larynx, trachea, pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, thymus, aorta, peritoneum, stomach, intestines, liver, gall bladder, spleen, kidneys, bladder, suprarenals, pancreas, uterus and lymphatic glands
Type of incident: n/a

Volume presented as a surgical prize (Session 1840-1841) by St George’s Hospital Medical School to John Morgan

Inscription on title page: ‘Presented to St George’s Hospital Library by Sir Benjamin Brodie Bart’

Ex libris of the Library of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow pasted inside the front cover, inscribed ‘7th Oct 1869’ (Vol I); ‘8th Jan 1870’ (Vol II); ‘9th Jan 1871’ (Vol IV); ‘27/5/71’ (Vol V)

Second edition. Five volumes (Vol III missing): I (General Pathology); II (Local Injuries. Diseases of the Eye); III (Operative Surgery; Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense, Respiration, Circulation, Locomotion, and Innervation); IV (Diseases of the Organs of Digestion, of the Genito-Urinary System, of the Breast, Thyroid Gland, and Skin; Appendix of Miscellaneous Subjects); V (Diseases of the Genital Organs, of the Breast, Thyroid Glad, and Skin; Operative Surgery)

Inscription on title page (Vol I): ‘London Hospital Medical Library 1904’

Four volumes: I (General Pathology); II (Local Injuries. Diseases of the Eye); III (Operative Surgery; Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense, Respiration, Circulation, Locomotion, and Innervation); IV (Diseases of the Organs of Digestion, of the Genito-Urinary System, of the Breast, Thyroid Gland, and Skin; Appendix of Miscellaneous Subjects)

Inscription on flyleaf: 'May 1904’

Inscription on flyleaf: ‘Presented by the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow’

Second edition

Pasted inside front cover: ‘Royal Society of Medicine Ophthalmological (Bowman) Library – Cancelled’. Inscription on flyleaf: ‘Donated by the Wellcome Medical Library February 1967’

Third edition

Inscription on inside of front cover: ‘Presented by Dr Edwards’

Inscription on title page: ‘G.E. Williamson’

Inscription on flyleaf: ‘Emma Louisa Rossell Jones from her loving Mother. Paignton. May 14th 1891’. Stamp on title page: ‘E.S. Rossell Jones’

Pasted inside front cover: ‘James J.M. Dunbar’

Occupation or role: [Wife of] Manager
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Jun 1937
Date of death: 13 Jun 1937
Disease (transcribed): Clinical diagnosis: Graves disease
Disease (standardised): Graves disease (Thyroid gland)
Admitted under the care of: Gainsborough, Hugh
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: No autopsy
Body parts examined in the post mortem: No autopsy
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Typist
Gender: Female
Age: 16
Date of admission: 13 Aug 1934
Date of death: 28 Sep 1934
Disease (transcribed): Exophthalmic goitre
Disease (standardised): Graves disease (Immune system);
Admitted under the care of: Fedden, Walter Fedde
Medical examination performed by:
Post mortem examination performed by:
Medical notes: 'Clinical diagnosis exophthalmic goitre’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'No autopsy’
Illustrations:
Type of incident:

Occupation or role: Clerk
Gender: Male
Age: 36
Date of admission: 28 Apr 1934
Date of death: 11 Sep 1934
Disease (transcribed): Graves’ disease
Disease (standardised): Graves disease (Immune system);
Admitted under the care of: Torrens, James Aubrey
Medical examination performed by:
Post mortem examination performed by:
Medical notes:
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'No autopsy’
Illustrations:
Type of incident:

Occupation or role: Widow
Gender: Female
Age: 65
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1934
Date of death: 22 May 1934
Disease (transcribed): Exophthalmic goitre
Disease (standardised): Graves disease (Immune system);
Admitted under the care of: Feiling, Anthony
Medical examination performed by:
Post mortem examination performed by:
Medical notes: '6 years ago was treated at the Westminster Hospital for a ‘nervous breakdown’ and was given thyroid extract. 3 years ago she noticed exophthalmos and palpitation. 1 year ago she was treated at Addenbrooke’s Hospital for a nervous breakdown. In March 1933 she was told that she had Graves disease. Lately the voice had been affected and she has had diarrhoea.’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, thyroid, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, kidneys, brain
Illustrations:
Type of incident:

Occupation or role: Widow
Gender: Female
Age: 58
Date of admission: 12 Feb 1934
Date of death: 14 Feb 1934
Disease (transcribed): [Heart failure. Graves’ disease]
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Graves disease (Immune system);
Admitted under the care of: Back, Ivor Gordon
Medical examination performed by:
Post mortem examination performed by:
Medical notes: 'Fractures for 7 years. Marked Graves’ disease, with rarefaction of bones. Blood calcium and phosphorus normal. Sent to AMCH [Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital] to rest before ?partial thyroidectomy. While there developed auricular fibrillation. Readmitted to St George’s where she died of heart failure’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, skeleton
Illustrations:
Type of incident:

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Mar 1936
Date of death: 24 Apr 1936
Disease (transcribed): Grave’s disease. Persistent thymus
Disease (standardised): Graves disease (Thyroid gland); Persistent (Thymus gland)
Admitted under the care of: Marnham, Ralph
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: She had always been rather nervous. In October 1935 she noticed the nervousness increased and she became very fidgety. One month later exophthalmos began to develop and she had inability to use her eyes for close work. A fortnight before admission she noticed swelling in the neck, especially on the right side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thyroid, thymus, larynx, pericardium, heart, valves, vessels, peritoneum, liver, spleen, kidneys and alimentary tract
Type of incident: n/a