Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 67 Gender: Female Date of admission: 5 Dec 1848 Date of death: 7 Dec 1848 Disease (transcribed): Strangulated femoral hernia. Operation. Slight peritonitis. Encysted and granular kidney. Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Operation (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Disease (Kidney); Cysts (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Handfield Jones, Charles Medical notes: This woman was admitted with a strangulated femoral hernia of the right side. 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: 16 Jan 1848 Date of death: 25 Jan 1848 Disease (transcribed): Femoral hernia. Operation. Pleuritis. Peritonitis. Suppuration in omentum exposed in wound. Intestine that had been strangulated, dark coloured. Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Operation (Abdomen); Pleurisy (Pleura); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Suppuration (Abdomen); Strangulated (Intestines) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This patient had been subject to femoral hernia for seventeen years and the day before admission it became strangulated. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 43 Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 Apr 1848 Date of death: 17 May 1848 Disease (transcribed): Inguinal hernia. Operation. Peritonitis. Secondary abscesses of liver and lung. Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Operation (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Abscess (Liver); Abscess (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This patient was admitted with a congenital scrotal hernia which was in a state of strangulation. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 37 Gender: Male Date of admission: 14 Sep 1851 Date of death: 6 Oct 1851 Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound followed by sloughing. Symptoms of compression of brain [?], attributable to the formation of pus within the cranium. Trephining resorted to. Pus & ‘lymphy gradation’, fluid between the dura mater & bone, also in arachnoid cavity, & among the meshes of pia mater. Also in cavity & of orbit & frontal sinuses. Secondary lobular pneumonia & hepatitis Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Suppuration (Scalp, brain); Trephining (Skull); Pneumonia (Lungs); Hepatitis (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy and Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: 'This man was first seen as an out-patient. He had had a glass thrown at him in some drunken quarrel which had inflicted a pretty severe wound on the fore part of his scalp. There was a good deal of bleeding’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 41 Gender: Male Date of admission: 17 May 1848 Date of death: 7 Aug 1848 Disease (transcribed): Abscess in hip joint. Dysentery. Disease (standardised): Abscess (Hip); Dysentery (Intestines) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Handfield Jones, Charles Medical notes: This patient was admitted with glandular abscess in the right groin. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and hip joint (right) Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 20 Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 Jun 1848 Date of death: 20 Oct 1848 Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous disease of sacro-iliac joint. Peritonitis. Pneumonia. Small secondary abscess. Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Pelvis); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Pneumonia (Lung); Abscess (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Handfield Jones, Charles Medical notes: This patient was admitted with an abscess the size of an orange situated over the right sacro-iliac joint. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and right sacro-iliac joint Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 32 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Aug 1848 Date of death: 4 Nov 1848 Disease (transcribed): Extensive sloughing. Fatty liver. Anaemic state. Disease (standardised): Sloughing (Leg); Disease (Liver); Anaemia (Systemic); Sloughing (Spine) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Handfield Jones, Charles Medical notes: This patient was admitted with a large abscess on the back of the right thigh which followed the subsidence of rheumatic fever. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 66 Gender: Female Date of admission: 29 Dec 1847 Date of death: 31 Dec 1847 Disease (transcribed): Femoral hernia. Operation. Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Operation (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This patient was admitted with symptoms of strangulated femoral hernia. There was a hernial tumour in the right thigh of about the size of a hen's egg. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 55 Gender: Male Date of admission: 5 Jan 1848 Date of death: 13 Jan 1848 Disease (transcribed): Great congestion of the lungs. Flabby heart. Liver very soft and spleen large. Diffuse suppuration of thigh. Disease (standardised): Congestion (Lung); Disease (Heart); Disease (Liver); Disease (Spleen); Suppuration (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Blagden, Robert Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: When this patient was admitted he was in an exceedingly low state and there was an enormous abscess at the upper and back part of the left thigh, which had existed for eight or nine days. He stated that twenty years ago he was shot in the thigh, and that some of the shot remained ever since. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and left lower extremity Type of incident: n/a