Occupation or role: Traveller Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 Dec 1880 Date of death: 21 Jan 1881 Disease (transcribed): Operation. Extirpation of larynx. Pleurisy. Pericarditis Disease (standardised): Extirpation (Larynx); Pleurisy (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard Post mortem examination performed by: Turner, George Robertson Medical notes: 'This case was read before the Clinical Society, and the accompanying [cutting] is the account that appeared in the Lancet of April 2nd 1881' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 34 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Dec 1897 Date of death: 4 Dec 1897 Disease (transcribed): Perforating duodenal ulcer Disease (standardised): Perforation (Intestines); Ulcer (Intestines) () Admitted under the care of: Owen, Herbert Isambard Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Rolleston, Humphry Davy Medical notes: The case is accompanied by an article published in the Edinburgh Medical Journal in 1898. 'The patient […] was a strong and burly man, aet. 32, who on the 2nd December 1897, while travelling in the train to London from the North of England, was seized with violent abdominal pain. He did not pass any water after this time, though a couple of ounces of albuminous urine were drawn off by catheter. It appeared that after his arrival in London he was treated by a doctor for renal disease or colic. He came up to St. George's Hospital late on the night of the 3rd December, and was at once admitted by Mr S. Smith, house physician, who found him collapsed, with a distended abdomen' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen Illustrations: Yes Type of incident: n/a