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Amelia Brewer, 24, Married

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Sep 1864
Date of death: 15 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Disease of temporal bone. Inflammation of lateral sinus. Meningitis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Skull); Inflammation (Brain); Meningitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'All that could be learnt of this patient, who was unable to give any account of herself, was that she had been confined a week back with a six months child, that for some time past she had complained of pain in the left side of the face which was called neuralgia’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, sinus, jugular vein, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Maurice Elder, 52, Painter

Occupation or role: Painter
Age: 52
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Sep 1872
Date of death: 9 Oct 1872
Disease (transcribed): Sanguineous apoplexy. Scrofulous pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: It was stated by the friends of this patient that he was quite well up to the day before admission when he was found lying on his bed in a speechless state with loss of power in the right side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Leopard Lewis, 11, Schoolboy

Occupation or role: Schoolboy
Age: 11
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Jul 1864
Date of death: 17 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Chorea
Disease (standardised): Chorea (Central nervous system)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This boy had formerly been an in-patient under Dr Page [William Page] and on admission had been absent from the hospital three weeks, the choreic symptoms, which had never wholly subsided, returning with severity as soon as he got home’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, spine, chest, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Eleanor Farquharson, 54, Nurse

Occupation or role: Nurse
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Jan 1865
Date of death: 27 Jan 1865
Disease (transcribed): Congestion of brain after erysipelas. Bronchitis
Disease (standardised): Congestion (Brain); Erysipelas (Skin); Bronchitis (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: No history obtained except that erysipelas had appeared on the right side of the face on Christmas Day.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

David Fisher, 20, Brass finisher

Occupation or role: Brass finisher
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Sep 1864
Date of death: 17 Sep 1864
Disease (transcribed): Paraplegia. Epilepsy
Disease (standardised): Paraplegia (Brain); Epilepsy (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Medical notes: 'This case is omitted’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'Not examined’

Type of incident: n/a

John Fitzgibbon, 40, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Nov 1846
Date of death: 29 Nov 1846
Disease (transcribed): Chronic disease of the brain
Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain )
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: As there was not post mortem investigation, the history of this case is omitted.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Body not examined at the urgent request of friends
Type of incident: n/a

Harriett Pratten, 59, Married

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 18 Sep 1867
Date of death: 9 Oct 1867
Disease (transcribed): Old valvular disease. Granular kidneys. Recent vegetations in mitral valve. Circumscribed softening of brain. Blocks in spleen and kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Softening (Brain); Blocks (Spleen); Blocks (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Pick, Thomas Pickering
Medical notes: Fourteen days before admission this woman had been seized with a fit without loss of unconsciousness followed in about three quarters of an hour by paralysis of the left side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

William Hinks, 63, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 63
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Oct 1858
Date of death: 25 Oct 1858
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted having fallen down in a fit in Sloane Street. There was hemiplegia of the right side with occasional spasmodic action of the muscles of the leg & arm. On the left side some twitching was also observed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

James Furness, 63, Potman

Occupation or role: Potman
Age: 63
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Oct 1861
Date of death: 23 Oct 1863
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient felt unwell on waking, later becoming partially unconscious and completely paralyses on the right side.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Mary Anne Burrell, 18, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 18
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Dec 1847
Date of death: 23 Dec 1847
Disease (transcribed): Large effusion into ventricles of brain. Lymph in subarachnoid cellular tissue. Oedema of lungs and emphysema.
Disease (standardised): Effusion (Brain); Oedema (Lung); Emphysema (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This girl was admitted suffering from severe headache and paraplegia.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

George Meredith, Plasterer

Occupation or role: Plasterer
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 18 Oct 1871
Date of death: 12 Nov 1871
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Atheroma. Thrombosis of the right middle meningeal artery
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Aorta); Thrombosis (Brain)

Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'Six months ago the patient said he had a severe face ache. Swelling commenced in the right side of the jaw. He had five teeth taken out, which left him with much pain in face. Two days afterwards he lost the power of the right side of face, arm and leg, & likewise feeling numb when he was touched. He had also some difficulty in speaking, occasionally at night his wife said ‘he would become unconscious’. Had been gradually getting worse and more stupid up to his admission’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Ann Morgan, 17, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Oct 1845
Date of death: 12 Nov 1845
Disease (transcribed): Diffuse cellular inflammation & erysipelas. Circumscribed abscesses in anterior mediastinum and upon lumbar vertebrae. Extensive pleurisy. Chorea. Brain and spinal chord healthy
Disease (standardised): Inflammation; Erysipelas (Skin); Abscess (Chest, spine); Pleurisy (Lungs); Chorea (Central nervous system)
Admitted under the care of: Seymour, Edward James
Medical examination performed by: Pollock, George
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with well-marked symptoms of chorea. Her mother gave the following history. At the age of 14, she began to menstruate and had enjoyed very good health up to April last, at which time she experienced a fright, which for about ten minutes rendered her incapable of either moving or speaking. In about a quarter of an hour she entirely regained her speech, but at the same time slight symptoms of chorea began to manifest themselves, both by the twitching of the muscles of the face and by some little involuntary movements in the upper extremities’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium, spinal chord

Type of incident: n/a

Margaret White, 59, Married

Occupation or role: Married
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Oct 1872
Date of death: 23 Oct 1872
Disease (transcribed): Thrombosis of left middle cerebral artery. Cerebral softening. Right hemiplegia. Aphasia
Disease (standardised): Thrombosis (Brain); Softening (Brain); Hemiplegia (Brain); Aphasia (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This woman was in perfectly good health up to ten days before admission, when suddenly after her dinner lost her speech and had great difficulty in standing.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys and organs of generation
Type of incident: n/a

William Lemoine, 30, Clerk

Occupation or role: Clerk
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1873
Date of death: 21 Oct 1873
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Apoplexy. Morbus cordis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Stroke (Brain); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Haward, John Warrington
Medical notes: This man was picked up in a stone yard in an insensible state and nothing was known about him.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen and kidneys
Type of incident: n/a

Susan Cartwright, 60, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 60
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 Nov 1845
Date of death: 26 Nov 1845
Disease (transcribed): Extensive apoplexy of the left hemisphere and of the pons. Arteries of the brain atheromatous. Concentric hypertrophy of left ventricle
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Plaque, atheroscelerotic (Blood vessels); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a state of insensibility, having been taken suddenly with a fit of an apoplectic character about half an hour prior to admission. When brought to the hospital she was apparently perfectly insensible, her breathing was slow and oppressed, her pupils dilated, her extremities apparently perfectly paralyzed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Maria Freeman, 61, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 61
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 16 Nov 1857
Date of death: 23 Nov 1857
Disease (transcribed): Hemiplegia. Anaemia
Disease (standardised): Hemiplegia (Brain); Anaemia (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Post mortem examination performed by: n/a
Medical notes: As the body was not examined the case is not given.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: The body was not examined
Type of incident: n/a

Thomas Warner, 72, Carman

Occupation or role: Carman
Age: 72
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1860
Date of death: 20 Oct 1860
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'A carman. Except that he had suffered from diarrhoea for some time, he had enjoyed good health up to his present attack. In the morning of the 20th he went to work as usual but was picked up insensible afterwards and at once brought to the hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Annie Hoare, Cook

Occupation or role: Cook
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 13 Dec 1871
Date of death: 17 Dec 1871
Disease (transcribed): Thrombosis of left internal carotid, middle & anterior cerebral arteries. Extensive cerebral softening. Atheroma
Disease (standardised): Thrombosis (Brain); Softening (Brain); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Aorta)

Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Laking, Francis Henry
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: 'The history reported by the friends was that three days before admission she went to get out of bed and fell down. She recovered herself and feeling unwell she came up to London from Norwood by herself and went to her daughter. She then reported what had happened when in the morning her daughter noticed that she had a very strange manner with her, did not answer questions properly, was hardly able to walk, and there was some twitching of the face and limbs. She remained in that state for twelve hours, gradually getting less power of the right side, and of the power of speech. At the end of twenty four hours she was quite insensible, with an occasional twitching of right side, but altering up to the time she was admitted’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Anne Hogg, 32, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 32
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Dec 1845
Date of death: 20 Dec 1845
Disease (transcribed): Fits of an epileptic character. Great congestion of the brain & its membranes. Pointed exostosis growing from the occipital
Disease (standardised): Epilepsy (Brain); Congestion (Brain); Exostoses (Skull)
Admitted under the care of: Seymour, Edward James
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner and Cowell, Thomas William
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with fits of an epileptic character, occurring about every two minutes. It was reported that epilepsy was common in the family, and that one of her brothers, as also one of her sisters, had suffered severely from it. This patient was attacked for the first time three days before admission, and when first seen by the medical man, it was judged advisable to bleed her’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium (‘in consequence of the relations having called, late in the afternoon, to remove the body. The head was the only part examined’)

Type of incident: n/a

Edward Ring, 30, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Oct 1845
Date of death: 23 Dec 1845
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumothorax. Slight pleurisy. Brain wet. Substance healthy. Slight thickening of dura mater in the cervical region of the spine, with adhesions to the bones. Chord and its investing membranes healthy
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Pneumothorax (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs); Disease (Brain)

Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient was reported to have been thrown off an omnibus about nine months prior to admission, and to have been paralytic to a certain degree ever since. The paralysis however came on gradually; at first it was comparatively slight, the legs being alone affected, but subsequently the paralysis of the lower extremities became more complete’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

George Green, 20, Teacher

Occupation or role: Teacher
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Dec 1857
Date of death: 26 Dec 1857
Disease (transcribed): Softening of the brain and spinal cord
Disease (standardised): Softening (Brain); Softening (Spinal cord)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: He had been subject to headache for the last six months which had been worse during the three months preceding his admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Benjamin Bean, 48, Butler

Occupation or role: Butler
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Oct 1861
Date of death: 16 Dec 1861
Disease (transcribed): Old clots in brain
Disease (standardised): Thrombosis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The patient said that he had been perfectly well the day prior to admission until he had suffered from a fit.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium and chest
Type of incident: n/a

John Fitch, 20, Gas fitter

Occupation or role: Gas fitter
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 17 Dec 1863
Date of death: 25 Dec 1863
Disease (transcribed): Otorrhoea. Inflammation of lateral sinus. Arachnitis
Disease (standardised): Otorrhoea (Ear); Inflammation (Transverse sinuses); Arachnoiditis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: The father of this youth said that for five or six months he had not been in his usual health. Four months ago he became deaf and lost his voice after a cold.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, temporal bone and chest
Type of incident: n/a

John Goodlad, [No age stated], [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 25 Nov 1846
Date of death: 29 Jan 1847
Disease (transcribed): Scirrhous tubercle with softening of brain. Scirrhous deposit in membranes of brain and periosteum of right orbit and thickened state of bone.
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Brain); Cancer (Periosteum); Disease (Bone)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: It appeared that this man had been subject to pain in the forehead for a period of nearly nine years, and that about four years ago he had a fit of an epileptic character.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, orbit, nostrils, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Mary A. Finch, 50, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 8 Jan 1845
Date of death: 28 Jan 1845
Disease (transcribed): Fungoid tumour in brain with effusion in the lateral ventricles. Partial hepatisation of left lung. Old pleurisy. Fibrous tumour in uterus
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Brain); Hepatisation (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs); Tumour (Uterus)

Admitted under the care of: Seymour, Edward James
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'Was reported by her husband to have complained during the last year & a half of pain in the head, accompanied by partial loss of power & numbness on the lower extremities, by some loss of memory and a sense of stupidity. This had gone on from bad to worse, and about two months ago, she became so listless and forgetful as to be utterly unable to conduct her household affairs, & she was obliged to be fed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

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