Occupation or role: Traveller Age: 45 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 Dec 1880 Date of death: 21 Jan 1881 Disease (transcribed): Operation. Extirpation of larynx. Pleurisy. Pericarditis Disease (standardised): Extirpation (Larynx); Pleurisy (Lungs); Pericarditis (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Pick, Thomas Pickering Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard Post mortem examination performed by: Turner, George Robertson Medical notes: 'This case was read before the Clinical Society, and the accompanying [cutting] is the account that appeared in the Lancet of April 2nd 1881' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Throat, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 49 Gender: Female Date of admission: 17 Jul 1881 Date of death: 13 Jul 1881 Disease (transcribed): Removal of spleen Disease (standardised): Removal (Spleen) Admitted under the care of: Haward, John Warrington Medical examination performed by: Willis, Arthur Keith Post mortem examination performed by: Turner, George Robertson Medical notes: 'Mr Haward [John Warrington Haward] brought this case before the Clinical Society and the following is an account extracted from 'The Lancet': Mr Warrington Haward related a case of splenectomy. The patient, a woman aged forty-nine, had usually enjoyed good health, and had never suffered from ague or any intermittent fever. The catamenia [menstruation] had ceased three years. She had been married seven years, but had not had children. For eighteen months she had suffered pain in the left side of the abdomen, and for ten months had been aware of the presence of an abdominal tumour' Body parts examined in the post mortem: Pleurae, lungs, heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, abdomen