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Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 3 Aug 1849
Date of death: 6 Aug 1849
Disease (transcribed): Peritonitis. Pus in the peritoneal cavity. Slight pleurisy. Heart healthy. Cysts in the kidney
Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Suppuration (Peritoneum); Pleurisy (Lungs); Cyst (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient who was entered in a cachectic state, not having enjoyed good health for several months past, was admitted complaining of very severe pain across the abdomen, which was tense, distended, rather tympanitic & very tender’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Aug 1849
Date of death: 13 Aug 1849
Disease (transcribed): Stone in the bladder. Dilatation of the ureters & pelves of the kidneys. Inflammation of the lining membrane of the bladder, ureters, pelves of both kidneys, with abcesses
Disease (standardised): Calculus (Bladder); Disease (Ureters, kidneys); Inflammation (Bladder, ureters, kidneys); Abscess (Bladder, ureters, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This girl stated that she had been taken ill 3 weeks ago with severe pain in the back, and stiffness in the knee-joints, with straining & scalding in passing water. She had a shivering fit last week and five days ago pain came on in the lower part of the abdomen and for the last 2 or 3 days the bowels had been relaxed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jun 1849
Date of death: 20 Aug 1849
Disease (transcribed): Brain wet, anaemic. Spinal cord healthy. Thoracic viscera healthy. Abscesses in both kidneys. Bladder hypertrophied. Inflammation of both knee joints
Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain); Abscess (Kidneys); Disease (Bladder); Inflammation (Knee)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'When this patient was admitted no distinct account could be obtained of his illness. The finger-joints were slightly swollen & red, as well as the wrist, there was effusion in the right knee’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Aug 1849
Date of death: 24 Aug 1849
Disease (transcribed): Hypertrophied & dilated heart, disease of the mitral & aortic valves. Congested lungs. Pulmonary apoplexy. Nutmeg liver. Congested kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Congestion (Lungs); Stroke (Lungs); Disease (Liver); Congestion (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient stated that he had been out of health more than 6 months, that his legs & scrotum had been very much swelled, but this symptom had diminished; that he had suffered from palpitation of heart & cough, and on 16th inst he had brought up some blood’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Aug 1849
Date of death: 28 Aug 1849
Disease (transcribed): Morbus brightii. Anasarca. Heart healthy. Old pleuritic adhesions. Ulceration of the cartilages of the left elbow
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Edema (Systemic); Disease (Lungs); Ulcer (Elbow)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient had been suffering from pains in the joints which he supposed to be rheumatic for about a month[?]. There had been swelling of the wrists, and the knees had also been painful, but it was now chiefly limited to the left elbow, which he could not move without pain’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, left upper extremity

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Monthly nurse
Age: 48
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 3 Sep 1849
Date of death: 3 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy. Clot in the substance of the right hemisphere. Atheromaous deposit in the arteries of the brain. Hypertrophy of the heart. Granular kidneys
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Clot (Brain); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Brain); Disease (Heart, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'A monthly nurse. Had left home in the morning in her usual health to take a situation where she was engaged to attend a lady in her confinement, and was seized with pain in the head in walking along the street, which when she reached the hospital was so severe that she felt utterly unable to proceed. She described it as confined to the right side of the head, and being so intense that she could not hold up’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Sep 1849
Date of death: 5 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Cholera maligna. Thoracic viscera healthy, blood quite fluid. Intestines vascular, glands healthy except near the lower end of the ileum. Kidneys congested
Disease (standardised): Cholera (Intestines); Congestion (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted in the evening of 5th Sept, in the stage of collapse of cholera. He had only been seized at 2 the same afternoon with purging, vomiting & cramps in the limbs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Aug 1849
Date of death: 5 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas. Secondary deposits in the pleura, kidneys & left elbow joint. Brain healthy
Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Deposit (Lungs, kidneys, elbow)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'Although said to be generally of delicate health, this lad had no serious illness up to the 27th of July when he had some degree of headache & sickness for which he took physic. On the 30th his legs became inflamed and began to swell. He had had no sore throat or mouth previously, nor any discharge from the nose, nor could any appreciable cause be assigned’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, left elbow joint

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Potman
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 8 Sep 1849
Date of death: 8 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Vessels of the meninges loaded with blood. Brain wet & soft. Kidneys congested & softened
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Disease (Brain, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'It was difficult to obtain any history of the commencement of this man’s illness. It was only ascertained that he was a potman belonging to a public house in the neighbourhood, & had been taken ill on the 4th inst when he was carried to the work house, that they had found him rather unmanageable there, and were sending him to a lunatic asylum, when he was seized with some sort of fit on the way, and was brought to the hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 44
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Sep 1849
Date of death: 19 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Softening of the spinal cord. Brain healthy. Bladder distended, and its lining membrane vascular
Disease (standardised): Softening (Spinal cord); Disease (Bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'Admitted complaining of loss of power & feeling of numbness of both legs, but it did not appear on closer investigation that there was any loss of sensation. He stated that his symptoms had been coming on gradually for 5 months, that he had had no fit of any sort, and that he had an attack of a similar kind 3 years ago from which he had recovered, but not perfectly. For 5 months past he has been unable to work’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 12 Sep 1849
Date of death: 19 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Tubercle in the brain. Hydrocephalus. Tubercles in the lungs, kidneys and mesenteric glands
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Hydrocephalus (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lungs, kidneys, mesenteric glands)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This child, who was said to have been ailing for some time but much worse for a few days past presented on admission much of the character & appearance of common fever’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Hotel servant
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 24 Sep 1849
Date of death: 24 Sep 1849
Disease (transcribed): Emphysemous & congested lungs. Small intestine vascular, glands distinctly marked. Kidneys congested. Bladder contained a small quantity of urine
Disease (standardised): Emphysema (Lungs); Disease (Intestines, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man, who was servant at an hotel, was brought to the hospital in a moribund state. The whole surface of his body had a dusky aspect, his face looked congested, with a purplish tinge apparently from mal-aeration of blood; he was almost unconscious of what was going on around, but put out his tongue when desired, which was dry & coated’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 19 Sep 1849
Date of death: 9 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Anasarca. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This person, who had rather a florid aspect, stated that she had observed her legs swell during the last 3 or 4 months, but was not aware that she was ‘dropsical’ until a fortnight ago when they had swelled very much more than ever, and within 4 days the skin of one had burst from distension, giving exit to a quantity of colourless fluid’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 31 Oct 1849
Date of death: 20 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Disease of the mitral and tricuspid valves. Lungs, liver & kidneys congested. Oedema of the lower extremities
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Congestion (Lungs, liver, kidneys); Edema (Legs)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with considerable oedema of the lower extremities of about 14 days’ or 3 weeks’ duration. She was complaining of cough with considerable amount of dyspnoea & palpitation of the heart. She had had an attack of acute rheumatism when fourteen years of age, which had confined her to bed nearly 3 months, and a recurrence of it January last’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Nov 1849
Date of death: 23 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Heart hypertrophied? Congestion of lungs. Haemoptysis. Albuminurious urine
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Congestion (Lungs); Haemoptysis (Lungs); Albuminuria (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, the history of this case is not given’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'This body was not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 5
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Nov 1849
Date of death: 23 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Scarlet fever. Diffuse inflammation of the cellular tissue of the neck. Pneumonia. Congested & ecchymosed spots in both kidneys
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic); Inflammation (Neck); Pneumonia (Lungs); Congestion (Kidneys); Ecchymosis (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This child was reported to have had scarlet fever 3 weeks before her admission. The throat had been sore and about ten days after the eruption appeared, swelling was observed of the throat externally, for which poultices had been applied. There had been no general anasarca observed, although there was slight puffiness of the hands on admission’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, neck, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Sailor
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Aug 1849
Date of death: 30 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Anasarca. Pneumonia. Disease of the kidneys
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Pneumonia (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'A sailor, of intemperate habits, who reported that on his return from sea, he had walked one day 30 miles in the rain, and had then sat down in a public house in his wet clothes, continuing his debauch till his clothes had dried upon him. Next morning his legs began to swell, and have been anasarcous ever since’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 28 Nov 1849
Date of death: 30 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Lateral curvature of the spine. General anasarca. Lungs healthy. Extravasation of blood on the surface of the heart. Ascites. Congestion of the liver. Cysts in both kidneys
Disease (standardised): Spinal curvatures (Spine); Edema (Systemic); Extravasation (Heart); Ascites (Peritoneum); Congestion (Liver); Cyst (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient, who was a good deal deformed by lateral curvature owing, as she stated, to an accident 5 or 6 years before, had suffered from swelled legs more or less for the previous 12 months. After childbirth in August last she also observed that her abdomen was more prominent than natural & she had increased in size up to her admission. She had long suffered from shortness of breath & palpitations of heart’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 56
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Nov 1849
Date of death: 7 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Vomicae in right lung. Pneumonia. Left lung emphysematous. Vegetations on aortic semilunar valves. Phosphatic calculi in the right kidney
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs); Emphysema (Lungs); Vegetation (Aorta); Calculus (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This man, from whom it was difficult to obtain any history in consequence of deafness and debility, presented an appearance of very considerable emaciation with a very sallow complexion. His chief complaint was of pain across the epigastrium and general debility’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Shoemaker
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Dec 1849
Date of death: 20 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Softening of the brain. Granular degeneration of the kidneys
Disease (standardised): Softening (Brain); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient, a shoemaker by trade, was admitted complaining of loss of power both in his arms and legs, which appeared however to affect chiefly the left side’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 26 Dec 1849
Date of death: 27 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Old pleuritic adhesions. Old pericardial adhesions. Heart hypertrophied. Vegetations on the mitral & aortic semilunar valves. Liver & kidneys congested
Disease (standardised): Adhesion (Lungs, heart); Disease (Heart); Vegetation (Heart); Congestion (Liver, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted almost in a moribund state, suffering from universal anasarca, and ascites, with great difficulty of breathing, cough & palpitation of the heart. The history that was obtained of the case amounted to this that he had been in the hospital with rheumatic fever 4 years ago when he was cupped on the region of the heart, that he had suffered from palpitations & shortness of breath ever since, and that about 6 weeks ago dropsy had commenced’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 43
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 24 Nov 1849
Date of death: 29 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Pulmonary apoplexy. Pericarditis. Chronic inflammation of the kidneys, with cysts. Fibrous tumour in the uterus
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart); Inflammation (Kidneys); Cyst (Kidneys); Tumour (Uterus)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This [woman] was first admitted into the hospital as an in-patient in September. She then dated the commencement of ther illness from an attack of haematemesis in July ‘48 when she brought up about a quart of blood. She had suffered from pain across the epigastrium ever since, and when the hand was placed across it she cried out as if it caused her great pain’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 42
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Dec 1849
Date of death: 1 Jan 1850
Disease (transcribed): Abscess in axilla. Pneumonia. Pleurisy. Albuminous urine.
Disease (standardised): Abscess (Axilla); Pneumonia (Lung); Pleurisy (Pleura); Albuminuria (Kidney) ;
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This man was originally admitted under the care of the surgeon suffering from an abscess under the axilla,
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 10 Oct 1849
Date of death: 9 Jan 1850
Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Morbus Cordis. Albuminous urine
Disease (standardised): Oedema (Leg); Disease (Heart); Albuminuria (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This patient stated that he had first suffered from shortness of breath with palpitation of heart for about six months before admission, and had observed it one day in carrying a load up a hill to which he attributed his subsequent suffering.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 Jan 1850
Date of death: 21 Jan 1850
Disease (transcribed): Constant vomiting. Albuminous urine
Disease (standardised): Vomiting (Stomach); Albuminuria (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Medical notes: This man applied for admission complaining of pains in all his joints, apparently of a rheumatic character, from which he said he had been suffering for six months.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a