Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 23 Gender: Male Date of admission: 8 Dec 1847 Date of death: 30 Apr 1848 Disease (transcribed): Pleuritis with enormous effusion of purulent fluid into the cavity of the pleura. Amputation of the leg. Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Suppuration (Pleural cavity); Amputation (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur. Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 61 Gender: Female Date of admission: 28 Apr 1851 Date of death: 1 May 1851 Disease (transcribed): Strangulated femoral hernia of right side. Operation Disease (standardised): Hernia (Thigh); Operation (Thigh) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: 'The history is not given as the body was not examined’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The friends objected to examination’
Occupation or role: Shepherd Age: 24 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Mar 1847 Date of death: 24 Apr 1848 Disease (transcribed): Disease of hip joint with dislocation of the femur. Inflammation of the femoral and iliac veins and vena cava. Disease (standardised): Disease (Hip); Dislocation (Leg); Inflammation (Veins) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This patient on admission presented the symptoms of disease of the hip joint of long standing. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 25 Gender: Male Date of admission: 4 Apr 1845 Date of death: 4 Apr 1845 Disease (transcribed): Extensive laceration of the right lung with a large extravasation of blood into the cavity of the pleura. Separation of several cartilages of the ribs, right side, from the sternum. Rupture of the liver. Fracture of arm & leg Disease (standardised): Laceration (Lungs); Extravasation (Lungs); Separation (Chest); Rupture (Liver); Fracture (Arm, leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was perfectly sensible when admitted, but presented ex-sanguine features and scarcely any pulse. He died after having been in the hospital an hour, having never rallied in any degree from his state of collapse’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, left superior extremity, left inferior extremity
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 50 Gender: Female Date of admission: 26 Feb 1851 Date of death: 13 Apr 1851 Disease (transcribed): Abscess of bursa patella. Pleurisy & pneumonia on left side. Bronchial tubes generally dilated. Hypertrophy of the heart Disease (standardised): Abscess (Knee); Pleurisy (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs); Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert and Wilson, James Arthur Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: 'This patient, who was very thin & unhealthy in appearance, was admitted in the first instance under the care of Mr Keate [Robert Keate] with an abscess connected with the bursa patella. This was immediately opened & 3 or 4 ounces of pus evacuated. Erysipelas extended from the knee up as far as the bend of the thigh’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 64 Gender: Female Date of admission: 26 Mar 1851 Date of death: 31 Mar 1851 Disease (transcribed): Strangulated femoral hernia & operation 3 days after the earliest symptoms. Hernial sac contained also omentum which was adherent around the neck. Peritonitis. Perforation of ileum found with crested & whitened edges. Fibrinous clot found in branches of pulmonary artery on the right side Disease (standardised): Hernia (Thigh); Operation (Thigh); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Perforation (Ileum); Clot (Blood vessels) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: 'This patient stated that she ruptured herself about 5 years ago after some unusual exertion, & that on walking about, or taking any active exercise, the hernia always descended. She could return it herself without difficulty. She had never worn a truss’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 32 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Feb 1843 Date of death: 12 Apr 1843 Disease (transcribed): Diseased knee amputation. Disease (standardised): Disease (Leg); Amputation (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right leg and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 57 Gender: Male Date of admission: 4 Mar 1846 Date of death: 15 Mar 1846 Disease (transcribed): Ulcer on the shin. Pneumonia. Phthisis. Heart atrophied and dilated. Blood fluid. Old and recent peritonitis. Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Leg); Pneumonia (Lung); Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Heart); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Gee, Adolphus John Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: This patient was admitted with large varicose ulcers of the legs. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and left inferior extremity Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 36 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Mar 1843 Date of death: 8 Apr 1843 Disease (transcribed): Simple fracture of Leg, became C. Secondary deposits. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Leg, thorax and kidney Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 11 Gender: Female Date of admission: 19 Aug 1846 Date of death: 05 Mar 1847 Disease (transcribed): Amputation of leg. Secondary abscess in lungs. Femoral and iliac veins contained pus without indications of inflammation Disease (standardised): Amputation (Leg); Abscess (Lung); Suppuration (Veins) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Gee, Adolphus John Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This girl was admitted in a weakly emaciated condition with necrosis and caries of the left leg, reported of a month’s standing. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and left lower extremity Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 21 Jul 1847 Date of death: 28 Mar 1848 Disease (transcribed): Amputation of leg. Secondary abscess of lung. Pleuritis and empyema. Inflammation of femoral vein and pus in its cavity. Disease (standardised): Amputation (Leg); Abscess (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura); Empyema (Pleura); Inflammation (Veins); Suppuration (Veins) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This patient on admission was suffering under ulceration of the cartilages of the left knee joint apparently of an acute character. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 16 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Feb 1843 Date of death: 2 Apr 1843 Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous Disease of Hip. Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Hip) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Left hip and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 28 Gender: Male Date of admission: 16 Dec 1842 Date of death: 12 Jan 1843 Disease (transcribed): Abscess in knee joint. Disease (standardised): Abscess (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: The abscesses were the consequence of acute inflammation of the knee of less than a months duration. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Knee joint Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: [No age stated] Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 Jan 1852 Date of death: 2 Mar 1852 Disease (transcribed): Malignant ulceration of the skin of the leg. Amputation of the thigh eighteen days before death Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Leg); Amputation (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: As the body was not examined, the case is not reported. Body parts examined in the post mortem: This body was removed without examination Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 62 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Feb 1849 Date of death: 23 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Popliteal aneurism. Operation. Gangrene Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Knee); Operation; Gangrene
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient, a healthy-looking man of temperate habits, stated that on the 16th of October last he began to feel some pain at the inner side of his right knee. Two days after, while digging in a field, his foot slipped form the spade, causing him pain in the knee, but it lasted only a minute, & scarcely attracted his attention. He continued to work two days after this occurrence, but on the night of the 21st of October on retiring to bed he found his right foot & leg swelled’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right lower extremity
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 42 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Nov 1849 Date of death: 2 Jan 1850 Disease (transcribed): Diffuse cellular inflammation. Abscesses Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Leg); Abscess (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: This patient was admitted with diffuse cellular inflammation of the right leg of four of five days standing. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Shoemaker Age: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 6 Feb 1850 Date of death: 23 Feb 1850 Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of the right lower extremity Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: This man was drunk and quarrelling when the right leg was broken about its centre. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and right lower extremit Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 30 Jan 1850 Date of death: 29 Feb 1850 Disease (transcribed): Fractured femur. Pleuritis. Peritonitis. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Pleurisy (Pleura); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: This man was admitted with a fracture of the right femur about its centre caused by a mill stone of great weight falling on the limb. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and right lower extremity Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 36 Gender: Male Date of admission: 10 Jan 1845 Date of death: 3 Feb 1845 Disease (transcribed): Injury of knee with effusion of blood into the cavity of the joint. Erysipelas. Fibrous degeneration of the cartilage of the patella Disease (standardised): Injury (Knee); Erysipelas (Skin); Degeneration (Knee) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: 'This patient was a coachman and accustomed to drink. A wheel of a carriage had passed over his knee and much bruised the parts in the neighbourgood of the patella’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, right inferior extremity
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 23 Gender: Male Date of admission: 19 Jul 1848 Date of death: 16 Feb 1849 Disease (transcribed): Extensive caries of the femur & acetabulum with abscess Disease (standardised): Caries (Thigh, hip); Abscess
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: ‘The history of this case has not been preserved’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, left lower extremity
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 34 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Feb 1852 Date of death: 5 Feb 1852 Disease (transcribed): Injury of the abdomen from the wheel of a dray. Laceration of integuments and inguinal region and of the muscles at upper and inner part of the thigh Disease (standardised): Injury (Abdomen); Laceration (Abdomen); Laceration (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: He was knocked down by a dray a short time before his admission, the wheel of which passed over the lower part of his abdomen. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Left thigh and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: [No age stated] Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Sep 1840 Date of death: 8 Feb 1841 Disease (transcribed): Ulceration of cartilages of knee Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, knee-joint
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 41 Gender: Male Date of admission: 18 Jul 1849 Date of death: 4 Feb 1850 Disease (transcribed): Psoas abscess. Disease of the hip joint Disease (standardised): Abscess (Psoas muscle); Disease (Hip) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Howse, Alfred Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: This patient was admitted with symptoms of inflammation of the bursa of the psoas and iliacus muscles on the right side. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and right lower extremity Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 37 Gender: Male Date of admission: 16 Nov 1846 Date of death: 23 Jan 1847 Disease (transcribed): Diseased elbow joint. Sinus in thigh. Sloughs on sacrum. Diseased heart. Blood fluid. Disease (standardised): Disease (Elbow joint); Sinus (Leg); Sloughing (Spine); Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, elbow joint and lower extremity Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 17 Gender: Male Date of admission: 10 Nov 1847 Date of death: 26 Dec 1847 Disease (transcribed): Softened septum and fornix with effusion in ventricles of brain. Scrofulous tubercles in subarachnoid cellular tissue. Phthisis pulmonalis. Pneumonia with hepatisation. Inflammation of bladder. Disease of hip joints. Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain); Tuberculosis (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Lung); Inflammation (Bladder);Disease (Hip)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur. Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Gee, Adolphus John Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This patient was admitted for symptoms of acute inflammation of the hip joint. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen and left hip joint Type of incident: n/a