Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 47 Gender: Female Date of admission: 27 Dec 1854 Date of death: 11 Jan 1855 Disease (transcribed): Malignant disease of the uterus. Peritonitis. Disease (standardised): Malignancy (Uterus); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Lee, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: The patient was deaf so it was impossible to get a rational account of her illness. It appeared that she was a widow, and had had four children. She complained of pains across the belly, which was continual and of a burning character. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 31 Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 Jul 1847 Date of death: 12 Sep 1847 Disease (transcribed): Pleuritic adhesions of hydrothorax. Dilatation and hypertrophy of left ventricle and fatty heart. Ascites. Thickened peritoneum. Liver diseased. Kidneys granular, the left contracted. Spleen softened. Disease (standardised): Adhesions (Pleura); Disease (Heart); Ascites (Abdomen); Thickening (Abdomen); Disease (Liver); Disease (Kidney);Disease (Spleen) Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: This man was admitted suffering from anasarca of long duration. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 26 Gender: Male Date of admission: 04 Aug 1847 Date of death: 10 Sep 1847 Disease (transcribed): Extensive abscess round the knee joint. Secondary abscesses of lungs. Kidneys enormously enlarged. Disease (standardised): Abscess (Leg); Abscess (Lung); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Gee, Adolphus John Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: This patient was admitted for considerable enlargement of the right knee joint of nine months standing. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Right extremity, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 44 Gender: Female Date of admission: 14 Dec 1845 Date of death: 14 Dec 1845 Disease (transcribed): Burn. Death in a few hours. Lungs emphysematous. Kidneys granular. Other viscera healthy Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Emphysema (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a state of extreme collapse in which she continued for a considerable time. After she was in the hospital for some hours she slightly rallied but died suddenly about 10 hours after her admission’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pharynx, larynx, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 45 Gender: Female Date of admission: 8 Oct 1845 Date of death: 21 Nov 1845 Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy. Peritonitis. Scirrhous ulceration of uterus & vagina encroaching upon the bladder Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lungs); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Scirrhus (Uterus, vagina); Ulcer (Uterus, vagina)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a state of much debility, with incontinence of urine and frequent vomiting. She stated that she was married and had five children and that the present symptoms accompanied by pain in the back and loins and occasional fits had existed for two months previous to her admission’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 20 Gender: Male Date of admission: 10 Sep 1845 Date of death: 31 Oct 1845 Disease (transcribed): Tubercular deposits in lungs, in sub-pleural cellular tissue, in intestines, kidneys & mesenteric glands. Extensive inflammation of the sub-arachnoid cellular tissue with white softening of the central part of the brain Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs, tissue, intestines, kidneys, mesenteric glands); Inflammation (Brain); Softening (Brain) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient stated that he had ‘caught cold’ in the December before his admission and shortly after an abscess made its appearance without any very evident cause upon the back of the hand. Three months after this some abscesses made their appearance near the right shoulder and a few weeks after the left shoulder became similarly affected’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Oct 1845 Date of death: 21 Oct 1845 Disease (transcribed): Stricture of the urethra. Disease of the bladder and kidneys. Extensive red hepatisation of both lungs with slight pleurisy Disease (standardised): Stricture (Urethra); Disease (Bladder, kidneys); Hepatisation (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was sent into the hospital upon the supposition that he had a stricture through which no instrument could be passed. He remained in bed until the 17th when no 7 catheter was passed with very little difficulty and upwards of a pint of pale urine containing some mucous flocculi was drawn off’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 80 Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 Sep 1845 Date of death: 1 Oct 1845 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the neck of the femur and of the anatomical neck of the humerus, with effusion of blood in the sub-dorsal cellular tissue of the left loin and iliac fossa. Calcerous deposit in aortic valves. Kidneys slightly granular Disease (standardised): Fracture (Thigh); Effusion (Loins, hip); Deposit (Aorta); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This old gentleman was admitted with the usual symptoms of fracture of the neck of the femur’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, left superior extremity, left inferior extremity
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 54 Gender: Female Date of admission: 25 Jun 1845 Date of death: 29 Aug 1845 Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas of both inferior extremities with circumscribed abscesses. Viscera healthy in structure, excepting the uterus which contained several fibrous tumours Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Abscess (Tumour); Uterus Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with erysipelalous inflammation of both legs accompanied by all the symptoms of much constitutional debility, but without any symptoms indicating disease of any of articular organs’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, inferior extremities
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 Jul 1845 Date of death: 25 Aug 1845 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the 11th dorsal vertebra. Softening of spinal marrow. Inflammation of mucous membrane of left kidney. Extensive ulceration of bladder; large foul abscess between bladder and rectum with a false passage in the urethra. Red hepatisation of lower lobe of left lung Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Softening (Spine); Inflammation (Kidney); Ulcer (Bladder); Abscess (Bladder, rectum); Hepatisation (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient fell a distance of about 30 feet from a ladder, upon his back and was admitted 24 hours after the accident. Upon examination a depression was discovered at the lower part of the dorsal region in the spinous processes and the complained of much pain at this point’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, abdomen, thorax
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 67 Gender: Male Date of admission: 13 Aug 1845 Date of death: 22 Aug 1845 Disease (transcribed): Enlarged prostate, and diseased bladder & kidneys. Hydrocele Disease (standardised): Enlarged (Prostate); Disease (Bladder, kidneys); Hydrocele (Testicles) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Johnstone, Athol Archibald Wood Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient when admitted was suffering form irritability of the bladder & making water 8 or 9 times during the night. He also complained of much inconvenience on account of a prolapsus ani which he had frequently much difficulty in returning’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 76 Gender: Female Date of admission: 23 Jul 1845 Date of death: 17 Aug 1845 Disease (transcribed): Ulcers on leg. Red hepatisation of inferior lobe, left lung. Dilatation with softening of heart. Old umbilical hernia. Kidneys granular with chronic inflammation and effusion of a patch of lymph in one of the pyramids of Malpighi Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Leg); Hepatisation (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Hernia (Abdomen); Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Spitta, Robert John Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with an ulcer near the great toe of the right foot and erysipelalous inflammation of the skin of the leg. There were also several abscesses in the cellular membrane of the limb’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 20 Gender: Male Date of admission: 10 Jul 1844 Date of death: 8 Aug 1845 Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound and denudation of bone. Extensive inflammation between the bone and the dura mater with effusion of pusiform fluid both in the cavity of the arachnoid & in the sub-arachnoid tissue. Suppuration in the orbits. Softening of brain. 2ndary deposits in lungs. Kidneys mottled Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Inflammation (Brain); Suppuration (Brain); Softening (Brain); Deposit (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient fell from a scaffold about 32 feet high and was stunned for half an hour after the fall. When admitted, a lacerated wound presented itself upon the right temple’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, orbits, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 38 Gender: Female Date of admission: 14 Jul 1845 Date of death: 29 Jul 1845 Disease (transcribed): Large fibrous tumour of the uterus blocking up the pelvis, ulcerating and destroying the walls of the vagina both posteriorly and anteriorly and destroying the neck of the bladder. Other viscera healthy Disease (standardised): Tumour (Uterus); Ulcer (Vagina, bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'Sarah Few, a married woman, of a sallow complexion and emaciated, had had a child 13 years before her admission into the hospital. She stated that she had had some discharge from the vagina for two or three years and the the blood discharged in menstruation had contained during that time some coagula. 15 months ago she found that she was becoming weaker and losing flesh’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 38 Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 Jul 1845 Date of death: 28 Jul 1845 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the spine with softening of the spinal chord. Extensive ruptures, perfectly united, about the liver and right kidney Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Softening (Spinal cord); Rupture (Liver, kidney) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was reported to have been subject to fits of giddiness for several years and it was supposed to be during one of these that he walked forwards off a hay rick about 30 feet high. He was reported to have fallen upon his back across a large piece of wood’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 26 Mar 1845 Date of death: 28 May 1845 Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous disease of kidneys, bladder & prostate. Tubercles & vomicae in both lungs. Scrofulous enlargement of the cervical & mesenteric glands Disease (standardised): Scrofulous disease (Kidneys, bladder, prostate); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Glands) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'Before admission he complaining of constant desire to make water accompanied by pain as he did make it. The pain was chiefly situated in the penis, but he also had some pain in the loins. He occasionally passed small clots of blood’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, testes, thorax
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 5 Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 May 1845 Date of death: 20 May 1845 Disease (transcribed): Stone in bladder. Lithotomy. Diffuse cellular inflammation of pelvis. Peritonitis. Pleurisy on both sides. Pericarditis Disease (standardised): Calculus (Bladder); Lithotomy; Inflammation (Pelvis); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Pleurisy (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'George Fish, at 5 ½, admitted into the hospital on the 7th of May. No distinct history of his complaint could be procured, but it was stated that he had had some pain in making water and had been in the habit of pulling his prepuce for four months’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 49 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Apr 1845 Date of death: 13 May 1845 Disease (transcribed): Hypertrophy of prostate. Chronic inflammation of bladder & kidneys, the structure of which was studded with cysts containing fluid and blood and fibrine. Lungs extensively hepatised at the back part Disease (standardised): Disease (Prostate); Inflammation (Bladder, kidneys); Cyst (Kidney); Hepatisation (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted under the care of the physician, but transferred to the care of the surgeon upon the 11th of April. At that time his intellect appeared impaired and he did not give a very coherent account of his disease. His chief complaint was pain in the back with some loss of power over the lower extremities’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax, cranium
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Apr 1845 Date of death: 7 May 1845 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of patella. Erysipelas, with diffuse cellular inflammation of leg & suppuration in knee joint. Secondary deposits in lungs with pleurisy & pneumonia, & bronchitis. Deposition, apparently of lymph, in cortical structure of one kidney Disease (standardised): Fracture (Knee); Erysipelas (Skin); Inflammation (Leg); Deposit (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'He was first admitted on the 4th of March with a transverse fracture of the right patella, caused by direct violence. When admitted there was some swelling but no pain’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, right inferior extremity
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 27 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Feb 1845 Date of death: 1 May 1845 Disease (transcribed): Extensive caries of the dorsal vertebrae with a large scrofulous abscess. Small abscess in kidney. Tubercles in the sub-pleural cellular tissue. Slight ulceration of the pharynx. Heart dilated with thin parietes & soft muscular structure Disease (standardised): Caries (Spine); Abscess (Spine, kidney); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Ulcer (Pharynx); Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'About two years previous to admission into the hospital, the patient first experienced pain in the back, and at the expiration of three months, he found his back ‘growing out’. He went on working for twelve months during which time he had occasionally severe fits of pain on the back, but with no diminution of bodily strength’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, spine
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 52 Gender: Male Date of admission: 26 Mar 1845 Date of death: 1 May 1845 Disease (transcribed): Enlarged prostate, the right lobe of which was ulcerated & covered with calcareous deposit. Stone in the bladder. Chronic inflammation of the bladder, ureters, pelvis etc, spreading to the substance of the kidneys. Lungs slightly inflamed Disease (standardised): Enlarged (Prostate); Ulcer (Prostate); Calculus (Bladder); Inflammation (Bladder, ureters, pelvis, kidneys, lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient had attended the hospital occasionally for many years with symptoms of diseased kidneys and enlarged prostate gland, and had during that time been in the habit of introducing a gum elastic catheter himself’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 58 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Feb 1845 Date of death: 30 Apr 1845 Disease (transcribed): Kidneys mottled, granular & inflamed. Ureters etc much dilated & inflamed. Calculus in the bladder with chronic inflammation of this organ and ulceration of its mucous membrane Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Inflammation (Ureter, bladder); Calculus (Bladder); Ulcer (Bladder)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Johnstone, Athol Archibald Wood Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'Eight years before admission, this patient first experienced pain in making water and he found at the same time that he passed some small clots of blood in his water. The pain he experienced both before and after making water’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen (‘cranium and thorax were not examined at the earnest request of the friends’
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 15 Gender: Male Date of admission: 21 Apr 1845 Date of death: 21 Apr 1845 Disease (transcribed): Rupture of right kidney. Extensive haemorrhage into, and behind, peritoneum Disease (standardised): Rupture (Kidneys); Haemorrhage (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Johnstone, Athol Archibald Wood Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted in a dying condition, having been run over by a cart a short time previously’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 61 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Apr 1845 Date of death: 14 Apr 1845 Disease (transcribed): Stricture of the urethra. Chronic affection of the bladder, ureter etc. with mottling & granular degeneration of the kidneys. Large foul abscess in the left loin & extensing along the psoas, into the groin. Recent pleurisy & peritonitis Disease (standardised): Constriction (Urethra); Disease (Bladder, ureter, kidneys); Abscess (Loin, groin); Pleurisy (Lungs); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This person had attended the hospital occasionally for many years past, and had been in the habit of having catheters introduced as an out-patient. When he applied in the 9th of April he was suffering from the usual symptoms of retention of urine and stated that he had not passed any water for twenty four hours’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 24 Gender: Female Date of admission: 22 Feb 1845 Date of death: 3 Apr 1845 Disease (transcribed): Encephaloid disease of ovaries, of sub-serous cellular tissue of omentum and intestines, of pelvic & mesenteric glands, of sub-pleural and sub-pericardial cellular tissue, and of sub-cutaneous tissue in neighbourhood of umbilicus Disease (standardised): Encephaloid disease (Ovaries, abdomen, intestines, tissues)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was unmarried, and states that until three months ago she enjoyed perfectly good health. At that time she first found that her abdomen was larger than natural, and she experienced some sharp, darting pains aggravated at night’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax