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Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 25 Dec 1848
Date of death: 27 Dec 1848
Disease (transcribed): Scarlet fever. Purpura. Haemorrhage from the bowels.
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic); Purpura (Skin); Haemorrhage (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: It appeared that this person, having been ailing more or less for a fortnight, was seized with shivering and an eruption had appeared with a sore throat.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, oesophagus and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 50
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 21 Nov 1848
Date of death: 12 Jan 1849
Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Diseased kidneys. Congestion of liver. Congestion & softening of brain
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Disease (Kidneys); Congestion (Liver, brain); Softening (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with considerable anasarca & ascites. She stated that she had suffered for 2 years past from shortness of breath. Dropsy commenced in the legs 3 months ago, abdomen swelled soon after. [She] had been confined to bed ever since’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1848
Date of death: 12 Jan 1849
Disease (transcribed): Cancer of the pyloric end of the stomach
Disease (standardised): Cancer (Stomach)
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 presented on admission a most unusual condition of anaemia, having been twice in the hospital previously, when no evidence of organic disease was obtained. He stated that he had never lost blood either by vomiting or stool. His appetite has occasionally been very capricious. His chief complaint has always been of weakness, and he gained both flesh & strength each time that he was under treatment, continuing however nearly as sallow as before’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 12 Mar 1849
Date of death: 23 Mar 1849
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Tubercles & vomicae in both lungs. Dilated heart. Ulcerations of small intestines. Peritonitis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Disease (Heart); Ulcer (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This lad when admitted presented […] together with excessive emaciation & scrofulous enlargement of the cervical glands, an aspect somewhat unusual in phthisis of great lividity of the countenance, with blue patches on the cheeks & very blue lips. He stated that he had suffered from cough about 4 months, that he had gradually become weaker, but to his knowledge he never had spit blood. His expectoration was copious, and he had night sweats’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 6 Apr 1849
Date of death: 8 Apr 1849
Disease (transcribed): Gangrena pulmonum. Extensive pleuritic adhesions. Congested liver and spleen
Disease (standardised): Gangrene (Lungs); Disease (Lungs); Congestion (Liver, spleen)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient whose breath had a most putrescent odour stated that he had suffered more or less form cough during the last 6 months, but that for 5 days he had been confined to bed, his symptoms having been much more urgent and accompanied by severe pain in the hypochondrium. His face was flushed, skin warm & very moist, tongue white, red at edges, movements exceedingly tremulous. Respiration very hurried, and chiefly abdominal, complaining of pain in the right side, & constant cough. He admitted that he had been a man of dissipated habits’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 64
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Feb 1849
Date of death: 7 Apr 1849
Disease (transcribed): Encephaloid & melanotic tumours in the subcutaneous areolar tissue, in the liver, spleen, mesentery & intestines
Disease (standardised): Tumour (Liver, spleen, mesentery, intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with numerous tubercles, apparently malignant, developed in the subcutaneous cellular tissue over various parts of the body, but most numerous over the abdominal parieties. They were firm but not hard like scirrhus, lobulated on their surface, & not tender when handled. By far the greater number varied in size from that of a split pea to that of a bean, but 5 or 6 were as large or larger than walnuts’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 52
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 Feb 1849
Date of death: 16 Apr 1849
Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Cirrhosis of the liver, old pleuritic adhesions. Thickening of the great omentum
Disease (standardised): Ascites (Peritoneum); Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Disease (Lungs); Disease (Peritoneum)
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 person who was rather stout & with a florid complexion was admitted complaining of pain of abdomen, chiefly referred to the right hypochondrium & thence extending into right iliac fossa, with swelling of legs & abdomen. She stated that she had an attack of acute rheumatism 7 years previously, that the menses had now ceased 8 months, but she had enjoyed good [health] till 3 months ago when the legs began to swell. Since then she had suffered from cough, palpitation, shortness of breath, and had observed the abdomen also swelled’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Stableman
Age: 40
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 4 Apr 1849
Date of death: 15 Apr 1849
Disease (transcribed): Haemorrhoids, sloughing of the mucous membrane of the rectum. Liver large. Tubercles & vomicae in the lungs
Disease (standardised): Haemorrhoids (Rectum, anus); Sloughing (Rectum); Disease (Liver); Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was admitted with three large inflamed & strangulated piles, each of them rather bigger than a large nut, & formed by dilated haemorrhoidal veins with very little mucous membrane covering them. They had come down on the preceding day, accompanied by considerable haemorrhage from the bowel, and the spincter having closed around them he was prevented from getting them back. He was a stableman, debilitated & out of health & had suffered for two years from cough & many of the symptoms of advanced phthisis’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 May 1849
Date of death: 16 May 1849
Disease (transcribed): Tubercles & vomicae in both lungs. Pulmonary haemorrhage. Tubercular deposit in the intestines with ulceration of the small & large intestines
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Haemorrhage (Lungs); Tuberculosis (Intestines); Ulcer (Intestines)
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 applied for relief in consequence of diarrhoea, & pain in the stomach from which he had been suffering more than a month. On further enquiry it appeared that he was also subject to cough, had suffered from it more particularly since Xmas, & had spit blood only about a fortnight before his admission. But the cough was not particularly troublesome, & he had no night sweats’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 48
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Jun 1849
Date of death: 24 Jun 1849
Disease (transcribed): Fractured spine. Extravasation of blood in spinal canal & in substance of cord. Brain healthy. Fractured sternum. Congested lungs. Heart atrophied. Intestines distended with flatus. Pelvis of kidneys slightly congested
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine, sternum); Extravasation (Spine); Congestion (Lungs); Disease (Heart, intestines, kidneys)
Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas
Medical examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient was at 11am having fallen backwards off a scaffolding from a height of about 9ft & struck the back part of his neck upon a piece of timber laying on the ground below. When picked up he was insensible, but he recovered his consciousness in a few minutes’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Shoemaker
Age: 43
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 27 Jun 1849
Date of death: 10 Jul 1849
Disease (transcribed): Scirrhus of the pylorus. Enlarged glands. Obliteration of the ductus communis choledochus. Dilatation of cystic, hepatic & biliary ducts, & of the gall bladder
Disease (standardised): Scirrhus (Abdomen); Enlargement (Glands); Disease (Ducts, gall bladder)
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, a shoemaker by trade, stated that his symptoms had been of about 3 months’ duration, having commenced as dyspepsia, followed by vomiting which had latterly become so constant that he brought up almost every thing he ate’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 5
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 1 Aug 1849
Date of death: 1 Aug 1849
Disease (transcribed): Cholera maligna. Peyerian glands in the small intestine congested. Lumbrici found in the contents of the intestinal tube
Disease (standardised): Cholera (Intestines); Congestion (Intestines); Oligochaeta (worms) (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'No distinct account was obtained of the circumstances under which this poor boy’s illness had begun. It was only reported that 2 persons were lying dead of cholera in the house from which he was brought. He was in a complete state of collapse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: 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: 21
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 10 Oct 1849
Date of death: 29 Oct 1849
Disease (transcribed): Continued fever. Erysipelas. Oedema of the glottis. Pneumonia. Ulcerations of the small intestine
Disease (standardised): Fever (Systemic); Erysipelas (Skin); Edema (Larynx); Pneumonia (Lungs); Ulcer (Intestines)
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 was admitted on the 12th day of an attack of continued fever, which had commenced, as she alleged, in consequence of exposure to cold and wet, with rigors and pain of head and back, with sickness and relaxation of the bowels, which had continued for more than a week’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, trachea, thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 51
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 19 Sep 1849
Date of death: 1 Nov 1849
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis pulmonalis. Tubercles & vomicae in left lung. Heart healthy. Ulceration of intestines. Mesenteric glands enlarged
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Abscess (Lungs); Ulcer (Intestines); Disease (Mesenteric glands)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: 'This patient, who presented a certain amount of emaciation on his admission, stated that he had suffered severely from cough & shortness of breath during the last 4 months, and that 2 months ago he had spit blood. He had suffered no great amount of pain, but complained of pain generally throughout the chest’
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: 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: 5
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 15 Nov 1849
Date of death: 12 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Severe & very extensive burn. Ulceration of the duodenum
Disease (standardised): Burn (Skin); Ulcer (Duodenum)
Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Medical examination performed by: n/a
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: n/a
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: Trauma / accident

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 49
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 21 Nov 1849
Date of death: 13 Dec 1849
Disease (transcribed): Cirrhosis of the liver. Chronic peritonitis. Ascites. Anasarca
Disease (standardised): Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Ascites (Peritoneum); Edema (Systemic)
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 man of dissipated habits, and reckless character, who reported that his illness had commenced 3 months ago with severe diarrhoea accompanied by munch abdominal pain for which he had been under treatment, and his complaints were supposed to be inflammation. His stomach soon began to swell, and has been enlarged ever since; subsequently the legs also swelled, and are now rather oedematous’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 5 Jan 1853
Date of death: 2 Feb 1853
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Vomicae. Ulceration of the epiglottis. Fatty liver
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Ulcer (Epiglottis); Disease (Liver)
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 applied for relief in consequence of difficulty of swallowing, pain in the throat and brining up of frothy fluid, as he said from his stomach.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Larynx, trachea, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 2 Feb 1853
Date of death: 9 Feb 1853
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous tubercle in the brain. Vomica in apex of left lung. Ulceration of intestine
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Brain); Vomica (Lung); Ulcer (Intestines)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: She professed to have been tolerably well until a fortnight ago, and that since then she had only suffered from pain in the right side below the diaphragm.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Labourer
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 20 Oct 1852
Date of death: 28 Feb 1853
Disease (transcribed): Anasarca. Ascites. Cirrhosis of the liver
Disease (standardised): Oedema (Leg); Ascites (Abdomen); Cirrhosis (Liver)
Admitted under the care of: Page, William Emanuel
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: An Irish labourer who thought himself a sober man, but acknowledged that he sometimes exceeded.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 2 May 1853
Date of death: 4 May 1853
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Chronic inflammation of the caecum and ascending colon with ulceration. Peritonitis

Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Inflammation (Intestines); Ulcer (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen)
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 had been in a state of great destitution and for many night had not had a bed to sleep on before his admission into the hospital.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: Needlewoman
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 14 May 1853
Date of death: 21 May 1853
Disease (transcribed): Typhus fever. Ulceration of caecum. Ovarian cyst containing brain
Disease (standardised): Typhoid fever (Systemic); Ulcer (Intestines); Teratoma (Ovary)
Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: She had been taken ill with shivering, headache, much thirst and great feeling of weakness and depression.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 42
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 26 May 1853
Date of death: 27 May 1853
Disease (transcribed): Sloughing phagadena. Extensive dilatation of stomach
Disease (standardised): Phagedena (Tissues); Dilatation (Stomach)
Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry
Medical notes: This woman was admitted in a state of extreme collapse, almost like a person in the blue stage of cholera.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and pelvis
Type of incident: n/a