Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: Out patient Date of death: 7 Nov 1846 Disease (transcribed): Aneurism of the arch of the aorta. Atheromatous deposit in arteries. Absorption of bodies of vertebra and intervertebral cartilages Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Arteries); Plaque, Atherosclerotic (Arteries); Absorption (Spine) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This patient reported that three months ago he began to suffer from Dyspnoea. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 53 Gender: Male Date of admission: 4 Jan 1860 Date of death: 31 Jan 1860 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry 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’
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 46 Gender: Male Date of admission: 1 Feb 1860 Date of death: 13 Feb 1860 Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Jaundice Disease (standardised): Ascites (Peritoneum); Jaundice (Skin) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry 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’
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 39 Gender: Female Date of admission: 1 Feb 1860 Date of death: 14 Feb 1860 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'When this patient was admitted, she appeared in an excited, half-crazed state, and could not give a very lucid account of her preceding symptoms. She said that she had been ill for two years, that she had spat blood, and had cough with frequent vomiting. She had not menstruated for 18 months’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 36 Gender: Male Date of admission: 1 Feb 1860 Date of death: 19 Feb 1860 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'For 12 months this man had suffered from cough, expectoration and increasing debility. For three or four months he had had habitual night sweats’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 56 Gender: Female Date of admission: 29 Feb 1860 Date of death: 8 Mar 1860 Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'This patient had had several attacks of bronchitis, the first of these occurred three years ago. She recovered and remained pretty well until last spring, when she had a second attack, and again another in the following September’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 51 Gender: Female Date of admission: 29 Feb 1860 Date of death: 23 Mar 1860 Disease (transcribed): Aneurism of the aorta Disease (standardised): Aneurysm (Aorta) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'This patient was married and kept a small inn at St Neots. It appeared partly from her own account, and partly from particulats furnished by Dr Evans of St Neots, under whose care she had previously been, that during last August she suffered occasionally from pain passing down the outside of the left arm to the ends of the fingers’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, pelvis
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 36 Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 Mar 1860 Date of death: 26 Apr 1860 Disease (transcribed): Diseased heart & kidneys Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart, kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'A carpenter. 24 years ago he suffered from a complaint which was presumed to be pericarditis, per which he was an out-patient at the hospital. He had pain in the left side of the chest and the pericardium bore marks of cupping’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
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
Occupation or role: Carpenter Age: 54 Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 May 1860 Date of death: 7 Jun 1860 Disease (transcribed): Fatty heart Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'A carpenter, of intemperate habits. His health had been generally good until the preceding Christmas, since which he had cough and shortness of breath. The cough usually came in paroxysms and was not attended with much expectoration’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, larynx
Occupation or role: Stableman Age: 22 Gender: Male Date of admission: 24 May 1860 Date of death: 14 Jun 1860 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Tubercular peritonitis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); 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: 'A stableman. He had good health until 2 months before admission when he caught cold, as he supposed, and had more or less dry cough ever since. He never spat blood’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, abdomen
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
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 33 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Aug 1860 Date of death: 24 Aug 1860 Disease (transcribed): Cardiac dropsy Disease (standardised): Edema (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry 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’
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 48 Gender: Female Date of admission: 18 Jul 1860 Date of death: 9 Oct 1860 Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of liver Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: 'This case is not given’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The body was not examined, as it was sent to the dissecting room’
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 40 Gender: Female Date of admission: 2 Jan 1861 Date of death: 4 Jan 1861 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Bronchitis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, thorax, abdomen and pelvis Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 30 Gender: Female Date of admission: 3 Jan 1861 Date of death: 4 Jan 1861 Disease (transcribed): Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Bronchitis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy 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: [No age stated] Gender: Male Date of admission: 31 Jan 1861 Date of death: 1 Feb 1861 Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: The patient was brought having been struck with apoplexy about an hour before. He was unable to swallow. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 60 Gender: Male Date of admission: 2 Jan 1861 Date of death: 9 Feb 1861 Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy. Hydrothorax Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Hydrothorax (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: The patient who had enjoyed good health, excepting a liability to cough, slipped while wheeling a barrow a month before he came in. He has since suffered from a sharp pain in the left side with a feeling of tightness across his chest. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: Widow Age: 44 Gender: Female Date of admission: 6 Aug 1862 Date of death: 14 Sep 1862 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Albuminous urine Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Albuminuria (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Tepper, John Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: A case of phthisis, with albuminous urine. Body parts examined in the post mortem: This case was not examined Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Married Age: 26 Gender: Female Date of admission: 3 Sep 1862 Date of death: 18 Sep 1862 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pleurisy Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Tepper, John Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical notes: She stated that she had cough with thick tenacious expectoration occasionally streaked with blood for four months. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Married Age: 35 Gender: Female Date of admission: 6 Aug 1862 Date of death: 26 Sep 1862 Disease (transcribed): Rheumatism. Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Rheumatic diseases (Tissues); Bronchitis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: This case was not examined Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Trunk maker Age: 24 Gender: Male Date of admission: 2 Oct 1862 Date of death: 7 Oct 1862 Disease (transcribed): Diphtheria. Scarlatina Disease (standardised): Diphtheria (Pharynx); Scarlet fever (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: Two days before admission this man had been attacked with sore throat, from which his wife was suffering and died the day of his admission. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest, larynx and belly Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Potman Age: 32 Gender: Male Date of admission: 26 Nov 1862 Date of death: 26 Nov 1862 Disease (transcribed): Poisoning by oil of bitter almonds Disease (standardised): Poisoning (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: This man poisoned himself with oil of almonds. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined Type of incident: Suicide
Occupation or role: Bootmaker Age: 59 Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 Nov 1862 Date of death: 14 Dec 1862 Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of glands Disease (standardised): Cancer (Lymph nodes) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: Up to three months before his admission this man had always enjoyed excellent health. At about that time he observed that the submaxillary glands were enlarged. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Neck, chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Schoolboy Age: 6 Gender: Male Date of admission: 26 Jan 1863 Date of death: 28 Jan 1863 Disease (transcribed): Disease of the heart Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Pitman, Henry Medical examination performed by: Harvey, Edward Robinson Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: This child had had scarlet fever three weeks before admission, from which he was so far recovered as to attend the funeral of a brother who had died of the disease. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a