Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 52 Gender: Male Date of admission: 24 Dec 1851 Date of death: 1 Jan 1852 Disease (transcribed): Albuminous urine. Ascites. Dyspnoea. Palpitation. Convulsions. Clot in the ventricles and left optic thalamus of the brain. Diseased kidneys Disease (standardised): Albuminuria (Kidney); Ascites (Abdomen); Dyspnoea (Lung); Palpitation (Heart); Seizures (Brain); Thrombosis (Brain);Disease (Kidneys) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: This patient was admitted with considerable anasarca. It appeared that his legs had first begun to swell about twelve months before, and latterly also his abdomen. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Tailor Age: 34 Gender: Male Date of admission: 27 Nov 1861 Date of death: 1 Jan 1862 Disease (transcribed): Albuminuria Disease (standardised): Albuminuria (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Wadham, William Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: This man was transferred from the Surgeons on account of Albuminuria Body parts examined in the post mortem: Not examined Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Painter Age: 48 Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 Nov 1855 Date of death: 1 Jan 1856 Disease (transcribed): Extensive deposit of urate of soda in connection with the joints. Diseased Kidneys Disease (standardised): Deposits (Joints); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: This patient had suffered from gout more or less eighteen years. He was exposed to damp a good deal during the week preceding his admission, and pain came on in his knees, ankles and shoulder. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium and knee joints Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 11 May 1853 Date of death: 12 May 1853 Disease (transcribed): Head symptoms. Diseased kidneys. Enormously dilated ventricle of brain. Enlarged heart Disease (standardised): Disease (Brain); Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: He was admitted in a state of great confusion of mind with tremulous movements and a large oedematous tongue, having the appearance of salivation. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Labourer Age: 41 Gender: Male Date of admission: 7 May 1856 Date of death: 11 May 1856 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Diseased Kidneys Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: This man said that he had been complaining of feeling giddy for three weeks. He was evidently dying of phthisis. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Stableman Age: 56 Gender: Male Date of admission: 14 Apr 1852 Date of death: 1 May 1852 Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits and vomicae in both lungs. Hepatized lung on one side. Hypertrophied heart with white patches on its surface. Atheromatous state of the general arterial system. Diseased kidneys Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Heart); Plaque, atherosclerotic (Arteries); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: He was admitted reporting himself to have been ill for nine weeks with a bad cough, but having evidently suffered from it for a considerable time previously. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, trachea and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 68 Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 May 1848 Date of death: 29 May 1848 Disease (transcribed): Pneumonia with red hepatisation. Blood fluid. Diseased kidneys. Fatty heart. Fever? Disease (standardised): Pneumonia (Lung); Disease (Lung); Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart); Fever (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George Medical notes: This patient reported that he had been taken suddenly ill seven days before admission with shivering and pain all over his body. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 11 April 1855 Date of death: 13 April 1855 Disease (transcribed): Renal and Cardiac disease Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: This man had enjoyed good health until the winter of this year when he was working so hard it wore him out, and he was at last unable to take any walking exercise. Subsequently his legs began to swell, and three weeks before admission he brought up a great deal of blood. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen. 'For examination of brain see Dr Ogle's notes' Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 May 1850 Date of death: 5 Jul 1850 Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Albuminuria. Cirrhosis of liver. Cysts in kidneys Disease (standardised): Ascites (Abdomen); Albuminuria (Kidney); Cirrhosis (Liver); Cysts (Kidney) ; Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: With an enormously large abdomen, he stated that he had first observed a marked increase in its size with considerable inconvenience to himself about Christmas last, and since then there had been gradual wasting of his limbs. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Jun 1850 Date of death: 8 Jul 1850 Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Heart large. Kidneys granular Disease (standardised): Oedema (Leg); Enlarged (Heart); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: This man, who had an excessively cachectic appearance, stated that he had been subject to gout for eighteen or nineteen years, but that he had only become dropsical during the last six weeks. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Soldier Age: 44 Gender: Male Date of admission: 19 Dec 1855 Date of death: 11 Jan 1856 Disease (transcribed): Anasarca. Renal disease. Bronchitis Disease (standardised): Oedema (Leg); Disease (Kidney); Bronchitis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: This man had enjoyed very good health until ten weeks ago when he began to suffer from pain in the head which came on every day. He had cough, dyspnoea and pain in the loins, and his legs became oedematous. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated] Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 24 Mar 1858 Date of death: 2 May 1858 Disease (transcribed): Pericarditis. Diseased kidneys. Rheumatic gout Disease (standardised): Pericarditis (Heart); Disease (Kidneys); Gout (Joints) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard Medical notes: 'This man had been ill about a month with rheumatic gout in his feet & ankles & swelling of his left wrist. He complained also of pain in his loins which was relieved by dry cupping’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, right knee joint Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 43 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 May 1850 Date of death: 12 Jul 1850 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis pulmonalis. Kidneys coarse Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: This man had been an out patient at the Hospital at the end of the previous year and for more than six months had been constantly suffering from cough. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 53 Gender: Male Date of admission: 11 Jun 1851 Date of death: 25 Jun 1851 Disease (transcribed): Albuminuria and gout Disease (standardised): Albuminuria (Kidneys); Gout (Joints) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: n/a Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined this case is not given’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: 'The friends objected to any examination of this body’
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 23 Gender: Male Date of admission: 8 Jun 1853 Date of death: 25 Jun 1853 Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Vomicae. Ulceration of the larynx. Ulcerated peyer’s glands. Diseased kidneys Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Ulcer (Larynx); Ulcer (Peyer’s patches); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: This man was admitted in an advanced stage of phthisis. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, larynx and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Agricultural labourer Age: 66 Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 Apr 1859 Date of death: 15 Jun 1859 Disease (transcribed): Diseased heart and kidneys. Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Thomas Medical notes: For forty years he had been liable to some degree of swelling of the legs. He also had long been subject to rheumatic pains. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Painter Age: 58 Gender: Male Date of admission: 18 Apr 1860 Date of death: 8 May 1860 Disease (transcribed): Erysipelas. Diseased kidneys. Dropsy Disease (standardised): Erysipelas (Skin); Disease (Kidneys); Edema (Systemic) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: 'A painter. Except an attack of colic 20 years ago, this man had very good health until 7 weeks before admission. He never had gout, nor any dropsical affection’ Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen
Occupation or role: Under servant Age: 48 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Aug 1850 Date of death: 11 Aug 1850 Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Slight serous effusion in brain. Heart flabby. Kidneys congested with spots of ecchymosis and a a few cysts. Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Effusion (Brain); Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney); Ecchymosis (Kidney); Cysts (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: This man was brought to the Hospital labouring under a well marked attack of Delirium Tremens. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 59 Gender: Male Date of admission: 20 Mar 1861 Date of death: 31 May 1861 Disease (transcribed): Diseased kidneys. Malignant disease of the stomach Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Cancer (Stomach) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy Medical notes: The patient had formerly been a commercial traveller and habituated to much walking exercise. Six or seven months before admission he found that his strength and appetite were gradually diminishing, and soon afterwards the urine increased in quantity. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 40 Gender: Male Date of admission: 11 April 1855 Date of death: 11 May 1855 Disease (transcribed): Diseased Heart and Kidneys Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: A man of rather intemperate habits who dated the commencement of his failing health from last November, when he had a cough and shortness of breath followed by swelling of his legs and thighs, and pain in the hypochondrium. Subsequently his belly enlarged. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax and cranium Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Furnace repairer Age: 68 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 Apr 1856 Date of death: 16 Jun 1856 Disease (transcribed): Diseased Kidneys. Phthisis Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard Post mortem examination performed by: Gray, Henry Medical notes: This man was employed in repairing furnaces and was constantly exposed to varying temperatures. By this means he caught cold three weeks before admission. He began to cough, his arms and legs swelled and his water became dark. 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: 12 May 1855 Date of death: 13 May 1855 Disease (transcribed): Diseased Heart and Kidneys Disease (standardised): Disease (Heart); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: Of this man's history nothing very satisfactory could be gleaned. Two years ago he had a fall and broke his arm. Since the accident he had frequently complained of pain in the head. He had vomited at different times, but whether there was any connection between this and the head affections could not be ascertained. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, larynx, abdomen and cranium Type of incident: Trauma/accident?
Occupation or role: Metal Refiner Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 15 May 1861 Date of death: 13 Jun 1861 Disease (transcribed): Granular degeneration of the kidney. Pneumonia Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Pneumonia (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Howship Medical notes: The patient described himself as a sober man, ‘though according to his own account in the daily habit of drinking spirits as well as beer’. Eight weeks before admission he was attacked with a cough, pain in the chest, and vomiting. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Chest and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: Manservant Age: 54 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Jun 1850 Date of death: 28 Aug 1850 Disease (transcribed): General dropsy. Adherent pericardium. Diseased valves. Old peritonitis. Granular kidneys Disease (standardised): Oedema (General); Disease (Heart); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Holl, Harvey Buchanan Medical notes: This patient stated that his present illness was of six weeks or two months duration, and that it had begun with swelling of the abdomen followed by general dropsy. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 25 Gender: Male Date of admission: 3 Aug 1853 Date of death: 4 Aug 1853 Disease (transcribed): Disease of the kidneys and liver. Congestion and extravasation of blood into the lung. Hypertrophy of the heart Disease (standardised): Disease (Kidney); Disease (Liver); Congestion (Lung); Extravasation (Lung); Disease (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Bence Jones, Henry Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William Medical notes: This man was admitted with considerable anasarca especially of the lower extremities, and excessive dyspnoea. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and cranium Type of incident: n/a