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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 34
Date of admission: 24 May 1854
Date of death: 12 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Obstruction of the intestinal canal. Disease of the ovaries
Disease (standardised): Obstruction (Intestines); Disease (Ovary)
Admitting doctor: Lee, Robert
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Dickinson, William Howship and Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient was a widow, the mother of two children. Her illness began about five years ago, when she found a small swelling in the right side of the hypogastric regions’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of injury: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Dec 1854
Date of death: 11 Jan 1855
Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the uterus. Peritonitis.
Disease (standardised): Malignancy (Uterus); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: The patient was deaf so it was impossible to get a rational account of her illness. It appeared that she was a widow, and had had four children. She complained of pains across the belly, which was continual and of a burning character.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Agricultural labourer
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 May 1859
Date of death: 31 May 1859
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: He began to suffer from pain in the chest and slight cough.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Agricultural labourer
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Apr 1859
Date of death: 15 Jun 1859
Disease (transcribed): Diseased heart and kidneys. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: For forty years he had been liable to some degree of swelling of the legs. He also had long been subject to rheumatic pains.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Baker
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Jun 1859
Date of death: 21 Jun 1859
Disease (transcribed): Diseased liver. Ascites. Hydrothorax
Disease (standardised): Disease (Liver); Ascites (Abdomen); Hydrothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: He said that he had been out of health for three or four months, suffering from weakness and cough.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 14
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 11 May 1859
Date of death: 28 Jun 1859
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: He had been out of health for a month suffering from slight pain about the loins with gradually increasing swelling of the belly.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 51
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Sep 1859
Date of death: 9 Oct 1859
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the liver
Disease (standardised): Disease (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined this case is not given
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Jun 1859
Date of death: 20 Oct 1859
Disease (transcribed): Peritonitis. Empyema (old). Jaundice
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Empyema (Pleura); Jaundice (Skin)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: He had suffered for a fortnight from cough and pain in the right side of the chest.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 7
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 7 Oct 1859
Date of death: 21 Nov 1859
Disease (transcribed): Strumous disease of the kidneys. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Kidney); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: This child had measles five years ago. Some time after this he fell down stairs and was supposed to have injured his spine.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 46
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Nov 1859
Date of death: 14 Dec 1859
Disease (transcribed): Ovarian dropsy. Peritonitis. Sinus in umbilicus communicating with the peritoneal cavity. Malignant disease of the liver
Disease (standardised): Oedema (Ovary); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Sinus (Abdomen); Cancer (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: This woman had suffered from the complaint of which she died for five years. It commenced in the left iliac regions, as a small defined tumour.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1859
Date of death: 21 Dec 1859
Disease (transcribed): Tubercular peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: It was stated that for two months she had suffered from diarrhoea, and for six weeks from pain in the belly.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Feb 1859
Date of death: 10 Feb 1859
Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Diseased liver
Disease (standardised): Ascites (Abdomen); Disease (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: For a considerable number of years this woman had suffered occasionally from attacks of acute pains chiefly referred to the right loin.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Feb 1859
Date of death: 8 Apr 1859
Disease (transcribed): Chronic peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: This patient had been losing flesh and had pain in the belly especially on the left side with gradually increasing swelling, for about two months previous to admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Mar 1859
Date of death: 9 Apr 1859
Disease (transcribed): Croup. Cirrhosed liver. Enlarged spleen
Disease (standardised): Croup (Larynx); Cirrhosis (Liver); Enlarged (Spleen)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: This child had scarlet fever a month before admission, and it was said that her abdomen had begun to swell a fortnight afterwards.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 23 Mar 1859
Date of death: 26 Apr 1859
Disease (transcribed): Dysentery
Disease (standardised): Dysentery (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: About Christmas she began to have looseness of the bowels, with pain, passing blood and slime.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 4
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Mar 1859
Date of death: 27 Apr 1859
Disease (transcribed): Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas
Medical notes: About two months before admission she was seized with vomiting and had what was supposed to be a severe cold.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 May 1860
Date of death: 26 May 1860
Disease (transcribed): Obstruction of the bowels
Disease (standardised): Obstruction (Bowels)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man was a patient of Dr Nairne’s [Robert Nairne] once years before (Aug 1845) with an intestinal obstruction which lasted 15 days […] He was readmitted on the 23rd of May. He had suffered from diarrhoea and pain in the bowels for some days’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right elbow, cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 68
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Apr 1860
Date of death: 5 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis. Hypertrophy of the heart. Diseased liver. Dropsy
Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lungs); Disease (Heart, liver); Edema (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'The mother of 14 children. Except an attack of rheumatic fever 40 years before, she had good health until within 4 weeks of admission, when she ‘caught cold in the chest’, since which she suffered from cough with expectoration, occasional swelling of the legs and dyspnoea on exertion’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Jun 1860
Date of death: 8 Jun 1860
Disease (transcribed): Stricture of the pylorus
Disease (standardised): Constriction (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: 'A painter, of very dissolute habits […] He had been out of health for some time’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1860
Date of death: 20 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Obstruction of the bowels (internal strangulation). Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Obstruction (Bowels); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This young woman, who had never menstruated, had perfectly good health, with that exception, until the 15th on which day her bowels acted. In the afternoon she was seized with pain in the hypogastrium followed by vomiting’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Apr 1860
Date of death: 20 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys & liver. Old gout
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys, liver); Gout (Joints)
Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man, a coachman, became a patient in the year 1851, under Dr Page [William Emanuel Page]. He was then suffering from gout, which he had had ever since he was 26 years of age. His hads were horribly distorted, and rendered perfectly useless […] A plaster cast of one of the hands was taken and is preserved in the museum’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 58
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Jun 1860
Date of death: 2 Aug 1860
Disease (transcribed): Jaundice. Diseased liver. Gall stones. Diseased ovaries. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Jaundice (Skin); Disease (Liver); Gallstones (Gallbladder); Disease (Ovaries); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This woman had long been losing flesh and appetite, but she did not become a complete invalid until about 7 weeks previous to her admission when she began to suffer pain about the belly and both hypochondriac regions’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 1 Sep 1859
Date of death: 4 Sep 1860
Disease (transcribed): Diseased liver
Disease (standardised): Disease (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient, with whom the catamenia [menstruation] had always been irregular, and who had had no discharge for the preceding 3 months, was suddenly seized with vomiting of blood on the day before she came in, with a sensation of giddiness immediately before’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 5 Sep 1860
Date of death: 30 Sep 1860
Disease (transcribed): Ovarian tumour. Disease of liver. Dropsy. Hydrothorax
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Ovary); Disease (Liver); Edema (Systemic); Hydrothorax (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Lee, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship and Roberts, Arthur
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A married woman, though never pregnant. About 6 years before admission a yellow discharge commenced from the vagina, this was followed by swelling of the abdomen and cessation of the catamenia [menstruation]’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, pelvis

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Sep 1860
Date of death: 5 Oct 1860
Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Diseased liver
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Disease (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A coachman, stated to have been very temperate in his habits. 4 months before his admission he was attacked with jaundice, affecting the eyes and the chin, this lasted two days only, and was followed by swelling of the scrotum, legs and lastly of the belly’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of incident: n/a