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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 53
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 11 Jun 1845
Date of death: 23 Jul 1845
Disease (transcribed): Heart dilated with thin walls and soft muscular structure. Recent pleurisy on both sides. Pulmonary apoplexy and pneumonia. Atheroma in aorta
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Pleurisy (Lungs); Stroke (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs); Plaque, atheroscelerotic (Aorta)
Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'It appeared from this patient’s account that during the two last years she had at times been troubled with palpitation, which for about six months had been almost constant, giving rise to dyspnoea and great general distress, preventing her taking any exertion & rendering her unable during the last three weeks to lie down in bed’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jul 1845
Date of death: 23 Jul 1845
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy of the pons, of the right crus and right corpus striatum. Arteries atheromatous. Hypertrophy of left ventricle
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Plaque, atheroscelerotic (Aorta); Disease (Heart)
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: 'It appeared that the patient, who was riding in a van from Kensington to London, was seized, when about half-way, with giddiness & great confusion of his head, and told a friend who was with him that he felt very unwell. Just as they reached Hyde Park Corner, he was seized with a fit of an apoplectic character and was immediately conveyed into the hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 22 Jul 1846
Date of death: 7 Aug 1846
Disease (transcribed): Kidneys dwindled, congested and granular. Fibrinous deposits on aortic valves. General anaemia. No dropsy of inferior extremities.
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Thrombosis (Heart); Anaemia (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Medical notes: This patient stated that she had been ailing about two years. During this time she had felt weak and languid and had suffered more or less from pain in the head, from dyspnoea with pyrosis, and from palpitation.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Potman
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Jul 1871
Date of death: 16 Aug 1871
Disease (transcribed): Encephaloid cancer affecting the bronchial glands. Empyema. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Lungs); Empyema (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart)

Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: n/a
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Footman
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Jul 1858
Date of death: 5 Jul 1858
Disease (transcribed): Fever. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Fever (Systemic); Pericarditis (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A footman in Berkeley Square who appeared to have been suffering from fever of some long duration. He was brought to the hospital in a state of collapse, with icy cold extremities & cold breath. The medicines given & the free administration of wine & brandy were of no avail in rallying him. From what was ascertained it seemed that for six weeks he had been very much out of health but continued to do his work until the 2nd when he was compelled to take to bed. Delirium came on during the night of the 3rd. He had never complained of sore throat. The room in which he slept was a damp & cold one & from its want of comfort & convenience the medical gentleman who saw the case recommended taking the man to some hospital’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Jul 1847
Date of death: 01 Sep 1847
Disease (transcribed): Emphysema and oedema of lungs. Endocarditis. Ulceration of mitral valve and tendinous chords. Heart very large with hypertrophy and great dilatation of left ventricle.
Disease (standardised): Emphysema (Lung); Oedema (Lung); Endocarditis (Heart); Ulcer (Heart); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient was admitted suffering from ascites and anasarca, with considerable pain in the region of the liver, and dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Laundress
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 17 May 1865
Date of death: 16 Jun 1865
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: This woman had been ill for six month with dyspnoea and cough accompanied by some general oedema.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 12
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Jun 1860
Date of death: 8 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis (old & recent). Valvular disease of the heart
Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'Two months before admission this child began, without manifest cause, to suffer from praecordial pain and palpitations, followed in about a week by oedema. She never had rheumatism’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 04 Aug 1847
Date of death: 07 Sep 1847
Disease (transcribed): Pleuritis. Flabby heart. Medullary disease of bronchial glands and lungs. Ascites. Small malignant tubercles under peritoneum. General peritonitis.
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Disease (Heart); Disease (Lung); Ascites (Abdomen); Cancer (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry
Medical notes: This patient was admitted suffering from ascites. She had suckled her child up to two months ago, when gradually increasing debility warned her that it was necessary to give up suckling. About this time her legs began to swell.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Jun 1860
Date of death: 9 Jul 1860
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of the heart. Pulmonary apoplexy. Pneumonia. Pleurisy. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Stroke (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs); Pleurisy (Lungs); Disease (Kidneys)
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 servant of all work. A month before the previous Christmas, up to which time she had enjoyed good health, she began to suffer from cough, scanty expectoration and shortness of breath’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

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: Labourer
Age: 31
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 22 Jun 1870
Date of death: 1 Jul 1870
Disease (transcribed): Morbus Cordis.
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This man stated that for the last seven months he had suffered much from cough and dyspnoea. He became dropsical only two days before his admission.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys and spleen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Needlewoman
Age: 53
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 4 Jun 1869
Date of death: 13 Jun 1869
Disease (transcribed): Morbus brightii. Morbus cordis. Pneumonia
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart); Pneumonia (Lung)
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: This woman was a widow and had suffered from epistaxis two years before admission for which the nostrils were plugged.
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: 28 Jul 1845
Date of death: 30 Jul 1845
Disease (transcribed): Old adhesions in left pleura. Cartilagious deposits in sub-pleural pulmonary cellular tissue, right side. Coagula of blood in the pericardium covered over by a delicate membrane. Atheroma in coronary arteries and in aorta. Spleen large, soft and grumous
Disease (standardised): Adhesion (Lungs); Deposit (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Aorta); Disease (Spleen)
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 stated that for about three months he had been suffering from wandering pains, more particularly affecting the hands & feet, when about two days before admission, the pains became localized in the feet and were very severe’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Coachman
Age: 54
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Jun 1865
Date of death: 22 Jun 1865
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of heart
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Sturges, Octavius
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical notes: He had kept to his work until two moths ago in spite of pain in the loins and dyspnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Apr 1845
Date of death: 5 Aug 1845
Disease (transcribed): Old adhesions of the pleurae. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Heart dilated and thin. A few, thin patches of atheroma in aortic valves and in the root of the aorta. Kidneys granular and with some tubercles and cysts
Disease (standardised): Adhesion (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Pneumonia (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Pleurisy (Aorta); Disease (Kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner
Post mortem examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted complaining of pain in the chest & cough. It appeared that he had suffered more or less from cough during the last six months, and had lately become rapidly worse, with pain in the chest, night sweats, occasional diarrhoea and emaciation’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Baker
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Aug 1871
Date of death: 29 Aug 1871
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Hypertrophied heart. Sanguineous apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Disease (Heart); Stroke (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: 'Not seen by me’
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: General servant
Age: 45
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 9 Jun 1868
Date of death: 2 Jul 1868
Disease (transcribed): Morbus cordis. Cirrhosis of liver.
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Cirrhosis (Liver)
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: This woman had been ill for two months with pain at the pit of the stomach and headache, followed by swelling of the legs.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 May 1857
Date of death: 7 Aug 1857
Disease (transcribed): Valvular disease of the heart. Phthisis. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship
Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: This woman had been subject to haemoptysis for the last five years which he attributed to an injury of the chest which he received at the commencement of that period.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: Trauma/accident?

Occupation or role: Baker
Age: 50
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 30 Aug 1871
Date of death: 30 Aug 1871
Disease (transcribed): Granular kidneys. Pleuropneumonia. Pericarditis
Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidneys); Pleuropneumonia (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart)

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 man, a baker, for ten days had had diarrhoea which continued up to his admission with much pain in his abdomen, lately had been very subject to looseness of the bowels. Five days ago had shivering in the evening and the next day had a bad cough with much spitting of ‘dark stuff’ ‘
Post mortem notes: Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Servant
Age: 61
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 6 Jul 1866
Date of death: 6 Jul 1866
Disease (transcribed): Apoplexy
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain)
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: This woman had been seized with apoplexy in the afternoon.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jul 1845
Date of death: 9 Aug 1845
Disease (transcribed): Old and recent pleurisy. Phthisis. Heart dilated. Atheroma in aortic valves and in aorta. Old adhesions between liver & diaphragm. Spleen large & much congested. Kidneys studded with transparent cysts and miliary tubercles
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Aorta); Adhesions (Liver, diaphragm); Disease (Spleen, kidneys)
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: 'This patient was admitted complaining of weakness, some dyspnoea, a slight hacking cough and acute pain about the scrobiculus cordis. He stated that he was in perfect health till about six weeks before admission, when he caught cold’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 08 Sep 1847
Date of death: 21 Sep 1847
Disease (transcribed): Pleuritis with great effusion. Specs of fatty deposit in aorta. Enlarged and mottled kidneys
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Effusion (Pleura); Disease (Arteries); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This patient was admitted suffering from anasarca, dyspnoea and orthopnoea.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 23 Jul 1845
Date of death: 15 Aug 1845
Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy on both sides. Red hepatisation of left lung, upper lobe. Grey hepatisation of the lower lobe, right lung, with suppuration & several irregular cavities containing cheesy-looking substance. Heart dilated, walls thin. Atheroma at root of the aorta
Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lungs); Hepatisation (Lungs); Suppuration (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Plaque, atheroscelerotic (Aorta)
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: 'This patient was admitted stating that he had had a slight hacking cough for many weeks, but that it had never troubled him till a fortnight ago, when it became suddenly worse, accompanied by pain in the chest, and attended by vomiting on lying down’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 29 Jul 1870
Date of death: 12 Jul 1870
Disease (transcribed): Acute pulmonary tuberculosis. Meningeal apoplexy with formation of a false membrane.
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Stroke (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Cavafy, John
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This woman was admitted delirious and unable to give any account of herself. Her friends reported that she was accustomed to drink to excess and had become delirious three days before her admission. She lay constantly talking to herself, occasionally screaming and often called out that she was going to be killed.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, organs of generation and cranium
Type of incident: n/a