Morgagnus, Joannes Baptista: Adversaria Anatomica Opera
- 406 RB/263
- Volume
- 1762-1765
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Inscription on title page: ‘Joseph Toynbee January 1837 to the St George’s Hospital Medicl Library October 1841’
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Morgagnus, Joannes Baptista: Adversaria Anatomica Opera
Part of Rare books
Inscription on title page: ‘Joseph Toynbee January 1837 to the St George’s Hospital Medicl Library October 1841’
Part of Rare books
Vol. XIII: Sarcoma Melanodes or Hebra; Ringworm, Pityriasis
Vol. XIV: Frambcesial Syphilis (Yaws and Paragi)
Vol. XIV: Leucoderma; Myxcedema; Miscelleaneous; Eruptions caused by drugs
Vol. XV: Drug Eruptions
Vol. XVI: Bromide Eruptions; Lichens Urticatus; Pemphigus Vegetans
Vol. XVI: Coxa Vara
Vol. XVII: Fractures & Dislocations of the Upper Extremity
Vol. XVIII & XIX: Elephantiasis in English Practice, Symmetrical Lupus Vulgaris' the potato-like tumour of neck, Schistosoma Cattoi
Vol. XVIII: Eruptions, Urticaria Pigmentose, Leprosy
Vol. XXV: Diseases of Fallopian Tube Ovary, Uterus
Occupation or role: Sawyer
Age: 20
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Nov 1922
Date of death: 11 Nov 1922
Disease (transcribed): Pyaemia. Abscesses – gluteal, ischiorectal, alveolar. Bronchopneumonia and empyema. Endocarditis. Horse shoe kidney. Amyloid spleen
Disease (standardised): Sepsis (Systemic); Abscess (Systemic); Bronchopneumonia (Lung); Empyema (Pleura); Endocarditis (Heart); Fused (Kidney); Amyloidosis (Spleen)
Admitted under the care of: English, T. Crisp
Medical examination performed by: Pidcock, Bertram Henzell
Post mortem examination performed by: Schuster, Norah Henriette
Medical notes: The patient was previously admitted with an ischiorectal abscess which was operated on. He was discharged to AMCH, then readmitted with a hectic temperature and albuminuria.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Hip joint, tongue, fauces, larynx, trachea, pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, abdomen, stomach, intestines, rectum, liver, spleen, kidneys, bladder, suprarenals, pancreas and prostate
Type of incident: n/a
John Tanner, 75, [No occupation stated]
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 75
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Sep 1922
Date of death: 4 Sep 1922
Disease (transcribed): Arteriosclerosis. Obliteration of coronary vessels. Granular kidney
Disease (standardised): Arteriosclerosis (Arteries); Obliteration (Blood vessels); Disease (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Collier, James Stansfield
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Schuster, Norah Henriette
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Tongue, fauces, larynx, trachea, thyroid, pleurae, lungs, pericardium, heart, aorta, coronary arteries, peritoneum, stomach, small intestines, colon, liver, gall bladder, kidneys, bladder, pancreas, suprarenals, spleen and brain
Type of incident: n/a
Neville Foulsham, 19, [Child of] Porter
Occupation or role: [Child of] Porter
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 28 Feb 1922
Date of death: 17 Mar 1922
Disease (transcribed): Precocious adiposity. ? Hypernephroma
Disease (standardised): Adiposity (Systemic); Carcinoma, renal cell (Kidney)
Admitted under the care of: Bellingham-Smith, Eric
Medical examination performed by: Gainsborough, Hugh
Post mortem examination performed by: Donaldson, Robert
Medical notes: 'History: The pt. [patient] attended the O.P.D. [Out-patient department] for pain in the sides, back and hips. His throat had been sore for 2 weeks. He said he had 'influenza' 2 months ago. He had been fat as long as he could remember. He reached the 6th standard at school and worked in a munition factory during the war but since then had no regular emplyment. An X Ray of the skull had shewed no change in the sella turcica. On admission: 23/2/'22 There was extraordinary and universal obesity, florid complexion, pedulous [sic] cheeks, female type breasts and pendulous abdomen with well marked '[?]'. He had a high pitched voice and his mentality was child like. Heart and lungs. N.A.D. [Nothing abnormal discovered]. B.P. systolic 218 mm. Abdomen. Nothing abnormal palpable. Lt [Left] testicle small and rt. [right] undescended. Urine contained 4% albumen. No gross change in fields of vision'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Hair, skin, pupils, skull, brain, membranes, tongue, thymus, thyroid, larynx, trachea, pleurae, lungs, bronchi, bronchial glands, pericardium, heart
Type of incident: n/a
Smith, Rodney: Gastrointestinal Decompression in the Treatment of Acute Obstructions
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Inscription on title page: ‘R.M with compliments R.S. 18/3/48’
Sears, W. Gordon: Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses [third edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Edward Arnold, London
Ownership inscription: Ruth Sachs, now Cecil
Ross, Janet S.; Wilson, Kathleen J. W.: Foundations of Anatomy and Physiology [third edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: E. & S. Livingstone, Edinburgh and London
Ownership inscription: Sally Nock
Gray, Henry; Howden, Robert (ed.): Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied [seventeenth edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Longmans, Green and Co., London
Ownership inscription: J. Neale
Several notes and sketches have been inserted.
Cunningham, D. J. (ed.): Text Book of Anatomy [second edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Henry Frowde/Hodder & Stoughton
Ownership inscription: Matron, Kingston Hospital [part of Nurses' Medical Library]
Armstrong, Katharine F.: Aids to Anatomy and Physiology for Nurses [third edition]
Part of St George's Nursing Collection
Publisher: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, London
Ownership inscription: B. A. Fagg, St George's Hospital 1948
Post Mortem Examinations and Case Books
The post mortem records contain manuscript case notes, with medical notes both pre and post mortem. These include details on patients’ admission to the hospital, treatments and medication administered to patients and the medical history of patients; the medical histories were copied into the volumes from hospital registers, which are no longer extant. The post mortem cases include detailed pathological findings made during the detailed examination of the body after death. From the 1880s onwards the case books contain original anatomical drawings and photographs.
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The following information is recorded for each case. The information is transcribed from the case notes and/or the relevant index and, where relevant, additionally standardised using MeSH (Medical Subject Headings)
• Name of the patient. If a name is not entered in the volume, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No name stated]’
• Gender of the patient (female / male / unknown)
• Age of the patient. Usually in numbers, following the original, with the following exceptions: 4/12 = 4 months, 4/52 = 4 weeks, 4/365 = 4 days. If no age is entered, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No age stated]’
• Occupation of the patient. Where no occupation is entered, it is noted in the catalogue as ‘[No occupation stated]’. Children are often designated according to their father’s or mother’s occupation and women by their husband’s occupation (e.g. ‘F / Horsekeeper’, ‘M. Charwoman’, ‘Hd Grocer’); these have been rendered in the catalogue as ‘[Child of] Horsekeeper’, ‘[Wife of] Grocer’
• Date of admission and date of death
• The names of the doctors treating or examining the patient. ‘Admitted under the care of’ denotes the senior doctor in charge of the case (usually entered at the top of the page and in the index); ‘Post mortem performed by’ denotes the doctor responsible for the post mortem examination (usually signed at the bottom of the page) and ‘Medical examination performed by’ denotes the doctor responsible for the medical examination prior to death (usually signed at the bottom of the page). The earliest records usually contain only one name, and some of the later ones may contain multiple names in each category. An authority record (name access point) with basic biographical details has been created for each doctor mentioned in the records; these can be used to explore all the cases related to a particular individual
• Disease(s) or cause of death of the patient. Transcribed from the medical case and/or the index and standardised, e.g. ‘Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Fractured base. Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (lungs). Fracture (skull)’
• Medical and post mortem notes. Brief summary description or transcription of the case notes relating to previous medical history (not a full transcription of the case notes)
• Note on whether the case includes illustrations or photographs; these can also be browsed via genre access points
• Note on whether the death was caused by trauma, accident or suicide
• Subject access points, using standardised terms from MeSH, with disease type (e.g. respiratory tract diseases, cardiovascular diseases) and anatomy type (e.g. cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system), which can be used for browsing all relevant cases
Note on transcriptions and abbreviations
Names have been silently expanded, e.g. Jas = James, Wm = William
Some common abbreviations and acronyms
AMCH = Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital, Wimbledon
BID = Brought in dead
COA = Condition on admission
F = Father
H or Hd = Husband
HP = House physician
HS = House surgeon
IP = In-patient
L = Left
M = Mother
MR or Med reg or Med r = Medical register or Medical registrar
MS = Museum specimen
OP = Out-patient
OPD = Out-patient department
OR = Obstetric register
PMH = Previous medical history
PH = Previous history
Pt or Pat = Patient
PM = Post mortem
R = Right
RF = Rheumatic fever
Ry = Railway
SR or Surg reg = Surgical register or Surgical registrar
TB = Tuberculosis
VD = Venereal disease
Zonder titel
Part of Rare books
Presented by the late Medical & Surgical Society of the Hospital
Painting by Johann Zoffany of an anatomical session with audience, featuring John Hunter and William Hunter. Cutting from a book or a journal
Occupation or role: Carpenter
Age: 66
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Jul 1900
Date of death: 27 Jul 1900
Disease (transcribed): Biliary obstruction. Carcinoma of ampulla of vater
Disease (standardised): Obstruction (Bile ducts); Cancer (Bile ducts)
Admitted under the care of: Rolleston, Humphry Davy
Medical examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Post mortem examination performed by: Fenton, William James
Medical notes: Ten weeks before admission the patient had pain in the abdomen after dinner. A week later he became jaundiced and the urine was a dark colour.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, abdomen, liver, spleen, pancreas and duodenum, urinary tract, alimentary canal and kidneys. The post mortem contains a report by humphry davy rolleston ‘primary carcinoma of the ampulla of vater with report of a case presenting some features of interest’
Type of incident: n/a
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried: Tabulae Ossium Humanorum
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Inscription on flyleaf: 'Prescott Hewett Esq from his sincere friend Henry Lee'
Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried: Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani
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Inscription on flyleaf: 'Prescott Hewett Esq from Henry Lee'
Quain, Richard; Maclise, Joseph: The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body, Vol 1
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Inscription on flyleaf: ‘Thomas Thompson’
Full title: ‘ The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body and its Applications to Pathology and Operative Surgery with a Series of Lithographic Drawings by Richard Quain …. The drawings from nature and on stone by Joseph Maclise, Esq. Surgeon’
Plates in another volume
Wells, J. Soelberg: A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye
Part of Rare books
Part of Rare books
Inscription on inside of front cover: ‘Presented by Mr Babington Aug 1, 1815 St George’s Hospital Library’
Part of Rare books
Inscription on flyleaf: ‘Presented to the St George’s Hospital Library by the Revnd T. Barton Queen College Cambridge January 1844’
Part of Rare books
Inscription on title page: ‘Rt White 1779’
Full title: ‘An Anatomical Exposition of the Structure of the Human Body. By James Benignus Winslow, Professor of Physick, Anatomy and Surgery in the University of Paris, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of The Royal Society at Berlin, &c. Translated from the French Original, By G. Douglas, M.D. Illustrated with Copper Plates. The Fourth Edition, Corrected’. Two volumes bound in one
Vesalius, Andreas: Opera Omnia, Vols. I-II
Part of Rare books
Inscription on title page: ‘St George’s Hospital Library’
Vesalius, Andreas: De Humani Corporis Fabrica Librorum Epitome. Columbi, Realdi: Cremonensis
Part of Rare books