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St George's Hospital subscription receipt: Andrew Millar

'Recd the 2 day of May 1761 of Mr Andrew Millar the sum of Two Guineas (£s 2,2) being One Year’s Subscription for the relief of the Lame Sick & needy in St George’s Hospital near Hyde-park Corner ending at Lady Day 1762 by Rich[ar]d Aspinwall Jos[eph] Hudson Treasurers’

The illustrated receipt contains printed inscription ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive’

Two copy letters from James Williams to Mary Williams regarding Hunter’s death

Two letters from James Williams to his sister Mary in Worcester.

In the first letter, James Williams describes his daily work assisting John Hunter with preparations, and his attendance of Matthew Baillie’s lectures on anatomy and Everard Home’s lectures on surgery and physiology. He describes living with Hunter [at 13 Castle Square, backing onto Hunter’s Leicester Square residence], where his room is right below the ‘dissecting room with half a dozen dead bodies in it’, and how ‘there is a dead carcass just at this moment rumbling up the stairs and the Resurrection Men swearing most terribly’. He describes Hunter as a ‘very good kind of man when you have been used to him tho he has some oddities’. He states that the fee to attend dissections is five guineas, ‘besides buying bodies’, generally shared by two students and costing ‘about a guinea’. He asks for Mary’s watch as he does not have one himself, and it is as safe in London as it is in Worcester, promises to pay George back and asks for his books to be forwarded to him.

The second letter appears to have been written on the day of Hunter’s death. Williams states that Hunter had had ‘for these several years a very irregular spasmodic affection at his heart’. Williams describes having had breakfast with Hunter in the morning, after which Hunter left to see his patients and then to St George’s Hospital, where ‘the surgeons of this charity have been at variance with him … respecting some of the pupils’. Following ‘several words with the surgeons which brought on his complaint’, he died at the hospital. Williams says that Mrs Hunter [Anne Hunter] and their children were out of town. He says that ‘the other two pupils’ are leaving London for a while, and with no lectures he also plans ‘an excursion somewhere or other’.

These letters are transcripts and photocopies by George Edwards in 1968 from letters held by a descendant of James and Mary Williams (Edwards, George. 1968. John Hunter’s last pupil. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England 42 (1):68-70).

St George’s Hospital subscription receipt: Mr Harpton

'Received the 22 day of Jan[uar]y 1805 from Mr Harpton the Sum of Two Guineas being one years subscription towards the Relief of The Sick, Lame, & Needy in St George’s Hospital near Hyde-Park Corner to Xmas 1805 for J. Burton Esz, J. Gisley[?] Treasurers’

The illustrated receipt contains several Biblical quotations and a printed notice from the Weekly Board in 1799. The bottom of the receipt is inscribed ‘Wm Thompson Collector’

Granville, A.B.: Graphic Illustrations of Abortion and the Diseases of Menstruation

Inscription on title page: ‘Presented to the Medical Library, St George’s Hospital by Sir Benjamin Brodie Bart’

Full title: ‘Graphic Illustrations of Abortion and The Diseases of Menstruation. Consisting of Twelve plates from drawings engraved on stone, and coloured by Mr J. Perry, and two copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, coloured by the same artist. The whole representing forty-five specimens of aborted ova and adventitious productions of the uterus, with preliminary observations, explanations of the figures, and remarks, anatomical and physiological’

St George's Hospital subscription receipt: Richard Jones

'Received the 12 day of July 1850 from Richard Jones Esq the Sum of Five Guineas (£s 5.5.0) being one years subscription towards the Relief of The Sick, Lame, & Needy in St George’s Hospital near Hyde-Park Corner to Midsummer 1851 for J.V. Thompson Treasurer Wm Lewns Collector’

The illustrated receipt contains several Biblical quotations and a printed notice William Lewns, collector’

James Williams, 28, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 29 Jan 1851
Date of death: 20 Feb 1851
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Large vomica at base of right lung, smaller at apex. Adherent pleura
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lungs); Suppuration (Lungs); Adherent (Lungs)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Post mortem examination performed by: Ogle, John William
Medical notes: 'A black, who said he had been ill 10 weeks with cough & spitting. His attack was in the first instance not severe, but he had soon after had spitting of blood, and had been gradually getting worse & losing flesh ever since. He was emaciated, voice rather hoarse’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

John Lusila, Waiter

Occupation or role: Waiter
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Date of admission: 13 Dec 1854
Date of death: 17 Dec 1854
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Scrofulous deposit in intestinal glands. Ulceration of glottis
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Intestines); Ulcer (Larynx)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This poor black, who was a native of Angola, and had been in the West Indies, had been 10 years in England, & was waiter in an eating house. He had not been conscious of illness till during the last 6 months when he had suffered from cough & haemoptysis, followed by hoarseness & sore throat’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, larynx

Type of injury: n/a

Jacob Jackson, 18, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [Occupation not stated]
Age: 18
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 16 Feb 1858
Date of death: 22 Apr 1858
Disease (transcribed): Scrofulous deposits in various parts. Abscesses
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Systemic); Abscess
Admitted under the care of: Fuller, Henry William
Medical examination performed by: Holmes, Timothy
Post mortem examination performed by: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'A negro engaged as servant to a medical man. He came over from Jamaica about seven years ago, & for some time his general health continued very good, but in 1854 he was attacked with shortness of breath & pain in the left side, for which he was admitted into St Bartholomew’s. Eight months ago he felt pain in the right side whenever he took a deep breath or went upstairs carrying a tea-tray, coal scuttle &c. One night on undressing he noticed a lump nearly as large as an egg just over the spine, about its centre’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

[No name] Said, 26, Valet

Occupation or role: Valet
Age: 26
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1869
Date of death: 26 Dec 1869
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Rupture of vomica into pleural cavity. Pneumothorax
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Rupture (Pleura); Pneumothorax (Lung)
Admitted under the care of: Wadham, William
Medical examination performed by: Thompson, Reginald Edward
Post mortem examination performed by: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical notes: This man was born at Magdala He had been with a family at Jerusalem, and had been in England only seven months.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

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