Inscription on flyleaf: ‘The Widow of the late Edward Cutler (surgeon to St George’s Hospital) in accordance with her Husband’s wishes and instructions presented this Volume of prints, from his collection to The Library of St George’s Hospital 1875’
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 14 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Mar 1843 Date of death: 20 May 1843 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of dorsal spine and abscess Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine); Abscess (Spine) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 20 Gender: Male Date of admission: 5 Apr 1843 Date of death: 27 May 1843 Disease (transcribed): Psoas abscess. Disease (standardised): Abscess (Psoas) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 17 Gender: Male Date of admission: 21 Aug 1843 Date of death: 21 Aug 1843 Disease (transcribed): Fractured skull. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 48 Gender: Male Date of admission: 16 Sep 1843 Date of death: 26 Sep 1843 Disease (transcribed): Fractured Patella. Diseased kidneys. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 17 Gender: Male Date of admission: 18 Dec 1842 Date of death: 14 Oct 1843 Disease (transcribed): Disease of cervical vertebrae. Disease (standardised): Disease (Spine) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Exterior of body and spine Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Oct 1843 Date of death: 28 Oct 1843 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of cervical vertebrae. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Spine) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Spine and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 30 Gender: Male Date of admission: 13 Nov 1843 Date of death: 16 Dec 1843 Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of leg. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: n/a 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: 30 Nov 1843 Date of death: 5 Apr 1844 Disease (transcribed): Inflammation of the pericranium, caries of the cranial bones at some joints. Fatal Laryngitis. Phthisis. Pneumonia. Tubercles in Kidneys. Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Skull); Caries (Skull); Laryngitis (Larynx); Tuberculosis (Lung, Kidney); Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with inflammation of the Pericranium covering the vertex and sides of the skull. The head presented an hydrocephalic appearance. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, larynx, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 53 Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 Apr 1844 Date of death: 25 Apr 1844 Disease (transcribed): Compound fracture of the cranium and depression of bone. Trephined. Fatal Meningitis. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Trephining (Skull); Meningitis (Brain ) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The man had received a blow on the head from a quoit thrown a distance of about seventeen yards. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 31 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 Jul 1844 Date of death: 20 Jul 1844 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of ribs and sternum with effusion of blood and serum into the pleura, the blood being surrounded by a membrane of new formation adherent to the pleura costalis. Rupture of intervertebral cartilage. Fracture of vertebrae. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Fracture (Sternum); Effusion (Pleura); Rupture (Spine); Fracture (Spine) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient, whilst riding on the shaft of a loaded van, fell, and both wheels passed over the chest. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, spine and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 27 Gender: Male Date of admission: 16 Jul 1844 Date of death: 20 Jul 1844 Disease (transcribed): Extensive fracture of the base of the skull with laceration of the Brain. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Lacerations (Brain ) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient fell from scaffolding, a height of about 30 feet. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 42 Gender: Male Date of admission: 8 Aug 1844 Date of death: 13 Aug 1844 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the skull with haemorrhage from the meningeal artery and laceration of the Brain. Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Haemorrhage (Meningeal Arteries); Laceration (Brain ) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: Whilst lighting a lamp over a street door he fell, striking his head upon the pavement, and was admitted shortly afterwards in a state of collapse and bleeding profusely from the ear. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 17 Gender: Female Date of admission: 17 Jul 1844 Date of death: 20 Aug 1844 Disease (transcribed): Caries of the Lumbar Vertebrae producing Psoas abscesses and angular curvature. Disease (standardised): Caries (Spine); Abscess (Psoas); Curvature (Spine) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax and cranium Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 30 Oct 1844 Date of death: 5 Nov 1844 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of Ribs. Laceration of lung without any injury of costal pleura. Extensive effusion of blood into pleural sac, encysted by a membrane formed from the fibrine of the extravasated blood. Lung compressed, otherwise healthy.
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Ribs); Lacerations (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: The patient received a severe injury to his chest by the passage of a wheel of a dray over him. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: Trauma/accident
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 33 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Oct 1844 Date of death: 22 Dec 1844 Disease (transcribed): Caries of the spine. Ulceration of cartilages and suppuration in the right knee joint. Tubercular deposit in the lungs and mesenteric glands. Disease (standardised): Caries (Spine); Ulcer (Leg); Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Mesenteric glands) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: n/a Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, spine and right inferior extremity Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 46 Gender: Male Date of admission: 25 Dec 1844 Date of death: 4 Jan 1845 Disease (transcribed): Diffuse cellular inflammation of both arms with matter in one elbow joint. A few scattered tubercles in the apices of the lungs. Other appearances most probably, for the greater part, cadaveric Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Arms); Tuberculosis (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: ‘Three weeks before his admission he punctured his right hand whilst opening a rabbit. When he presented himself the hand was much swollen and the skin inflamed’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, super extremities
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 72 Gender: Male Date of admission: 22 Mar 1845 Date of death: 2 Apr 1845 Disease (transcribed): Compound comminuted fracture of the leg with extensive haemorrhage. Heart dilated. Kidneys granular. Coagula in the heart, very small and loosely coagulated Disease (standardised): Fracture (Leg); Haemorrhage (Leg); Disease (Heart); 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 was admitted with a compound fracture of the right leg. The bone was broken in two places and the surrounding parts were much contused’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, stump
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: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 May 1845 Date of death: 23 May 1845 Disease (transcribed): Extensive rupture of the liver with effusion of blood & bile into the peritoneum. Fracture of 4th, 5th, & 6th ribs Disease (standardised): Rupture (Liver); Effusion (Abdomen); Fracture (Ribs) 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 shortly before his admission was knocked down by some horses and the wheel of a carriage passed over his abdomen. Some of the ribs were felt to be fractured upon the side side, and he was in a state of extreme collapse’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax
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: 26 Gender: Male Date of admission: 8 Sep 1845 Date of death: 2 Oct 1845 Disease (transcribed): Scalp wound. Fracture of the skull. Inflammation of membranes. Pus in superior longitudinal sinus. Extravasations of blood under both pleurae. Lungs congested and soft in structure. 2Ndary deposits in liver (trephine applied) Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Fracture (Skull); Inflammation (Brain); Suppuration (Brain); Disease (Lungs); Deposit (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'A piece of an iron pipe fell from a height of 40 feet and after striking against a projection bounded upon the patient’s head. He was stunned for about two minutes but was quite sensible half an hour afterwards when admitted into the hospital’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 37 Gender: Male Date of admission: 30 Oct 1845 Date of death: 1 Nov 1845 Disease (transcribed): Extensive fracture of the skull with extravasation of blood between the bone and the dura mater. Fracture of ribs. Heart dilated with softening of muscular structure Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Extravasation (Brain); Fracture (Ribs); Disease (Heart)
Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Spitta, Robert John Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'This patient was brought to the hospital without any history of the way in which he had met with his accident. It was however supposed that he had been struck or run over by a cart’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Head, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 36 Gender: Male Date of admission: 4 Nov 1845 Date of death: 5 Nov 1845 Disease (transcribed): Fracture of the skull with extravasation of blood in the cavity of the arachnoid and in the sub-arachnoid tissue. Extensive injury of brain. Fracture of sternum and of 8th and 9th ribs. Injury of lungs. Rupture of spleen. Fracture of pubis Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Extravasation (Brain); Injury (Brain, lungs); Fracture (Sternum, ribs, pubus); Rupture (Spleen) 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 said to have fallen from a second story and to have struck his head against a log of wood. When brought to the hospital he was in a state of collapse, perfectly insensible’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 45 Gender: Female Date of admission: 12 Nov 1845 Date of death: 25 Nov 1845 Disease (transcribed): Scirrhus of breast. Removal. Reappearance of disease in glands and in bones. Epileptic fits. Brain congested. Branches of superior & inferior mesenteric arteries clogged up with large and very firm black coagula Disease (standardised): Scirrhus (Breast); Removal (Breast); Scirrhus (Glands, bones); Epilepsy (Brain); Congestion (Brain, blood vessels) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Post mortem examination performed by: Lee, Henry Medical notes: 'About six months before her death this patient came into the hospital for a malignant disease of the left breast, which was then amputated. The tumor of the breast had been growing 9 months and was reported of an encephaloid character. She left the hospital three weeks after the operation with the wound nearly cicatrized’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, spine, thorax, abdomen, left humerus, left femur