Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 62 Gender: Female Date of admission: 27 Apr 1842 Date of death: 6 Jul 1842 Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Anasarca. Hypertrophy of left Ventricle. Peritonitis. Large gallstone in duct Disease (standardised): Ascites (Abdomen); Oedema (Indeterminate); Hypertrophy (Heart); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Gallstones (Gallbladder) Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick 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 and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 28 Gender: Female Date of admission: 13 Jul 1842 Date of death: 2 Sep 1842 Disease (transcribed): Tubercular Phthisis. Scrofulous peritonitis with ulceration of small intestine. Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Ulcer (Intestines) Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur 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 and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 47 Gender: Male Date of admission: 10 Aug 1842 Date of death: 5 Sep 1842 Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Cirrhosis. Kidneys granular. Disease (standardised): Ascites (Abdomen); Liver cirrhosis (Liver); Granular (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick 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 and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 29 Gender: Female Date of admission: 10 Aug 1842 Date of death: 12 Sep 1842 Disease (transcribed): Anasarca. Mottling degeneration of kidneys. Peritonitis. Cirrhosis. Disease (standardised): Oedema (Indeterminate); Mottling degeneration (Kidney); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Liver cirrhosis (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur 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 and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 35 Gender: Male Date of admission: 31 Aug 1842 Date of death: 28 Oct 1842 Disease (transcribed): Dilatation of both ventricles. Atheromatous deposit in aortic valves and aorta. Peritonitis. Disease (standardised): Dilatation (Heart); Plaque, Atherosclerotic (Heart); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Seymour, Edward James 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 and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 22 Gender: Male Date of admission: 12 Oct 1842 Date of death: 19 Nov 1842 Disease (transcribed): Peritonitis. Cirrhosis. Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen); Liver cirrhosis (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick 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 and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 42 Gender: Female Date of admission: 27 Dec 1843 Date of death: 30 Dec 1843 Disease (transcribed): Strangulated Femoral Hernia: Operation. Peritonitis. Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Hawkins, Caesar Henry Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted about a fortnight after her 11th confinement with an old reducible femoral hernia of 6 years standing, in a strangulated condition. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 60 Gender: Female Date of admission: 28 Dec 1843 Date of death: 30 Dec 1843 Disease (transcribed): Umbilical Hernia. Operation. Peritonitis with inflammation of the ascending colon and caecum. Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen) 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 had suffered from an umbilical hernia for the previous 30 years, which during the last five or six had attained the size of a child’s head. She had been subject to habitual constipation and choliky pains in the abdomen and occasionally inflammation of the bowels. During a fit of coughing on the morning of admission, she experienced a sudden increase in the size of tumour. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 33 Gender: Male Date of admission: 25 Oct 1843 Date of death: 5 Jan 1844 Disease (transcribed): Secondary deposits in the lung following a slight injury of the foot and suppuration in the groin. Disease (standardised): Injury (Foot); Suppuration (Abdomen); Deposits (Lung) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with a small abscess on the dorsum of the foot followed by inflamed absorbents. Abscesses formed in the thigh and groin and on the 23rd December he was seized with rigors, vomiting and profuse perspirations and complained of pain in the situation of the lower part of the left lung. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and groin Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 23 Gender: Male Date of admission: 29 Nov 1843 Date of death: 9 Jan 1844 Disease (transcribed): Inflammation of pleura, lungs and pericardium. Slight inflammation of the peritoneum. Disease (standardised): Inflammation (Pleura, Lungs, Heart); Inflammation (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient had come into the Hospital with an eruption of syphilitic Rupia and had shortly afterwards suffered from an attack of Idiopathic Erysepelas. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 69 Gender: Male Date of admission: 9 February 1844 Date of death: 11 February 1844 Disease (transcribed): Strangulated inguinal hernia. Operation followed by fatal peritonitis. Disease (standardised): Hernia (Groin); Operation (Abdomen); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Johnson, James Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient had been subject to a ventral hernia for 30 years which he had been in the habit of returning for himself whenever it occurred. On the 9th February whilst engaged at the mangle, the intestine came down. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 47 Gender: Female Date of admission: 14 February 1844 Date of death: 24 February 1844 Disease (transcribed): Empyema. Grey hepatisation of the lung. Granular kidneys. Encephaloid disease of uterus. Disease (standardised): Empyema (Thorax); Hepatisation (Lung); Cancer (Uterus); Granular (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Seymour, Edward James Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with anasarcous swelling of the lower extremities and vesications of the right leg. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen. The examination of this body was not carried on to any extent as the subject was to go to the dissecting room; the kidneys were the only organs which were cut into Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 34 Gender: Female Date of admission: 14 February 1844 Date of death: 12 Mar 1844 Disease (transcribed): Stricture of the Rectum. Fatal Peritonitis. Disease (standardised): Constriction (Rectum); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Johnson, Henry Charles Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient had been suffering from a simple stricture of the Rectum for many years. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 9 Gender: Female Date of admission: 13 Mar 1844 Date of death: 26 Mar 1844 Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy. Peritonitis. Necrosis of the rami of the Ischium and Pubis. Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Lung); Necrosis (Pelvis); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert. Seymour, Edward James Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with a small tumour situated in the labium and apparently connected with the ramus of the pubis. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 43 Gender: Female Date of admission: 29 Mar 1844 Date of death: 31 Mar 1844 Disease (transcribed): Femoral hernia. Operation. Large quantities of pus found in the coagula of the heart and of several veins. Disease (standardised): Hernia (Abdomen); Operation (Abdomen); Suppuration (Heart); Suppuration (Veins) Admitted under the care of: Tatum, Thomas Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient had been subject to a reducible femoral hernia for five years. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 46 Gender: Male Date of admission: 23 Apr 1844 Date of death: 23 Apr 1844 Disease (transcribed): Extensive tubercular deposit in the lungs and in the sub-peritoneal cellular tissue. Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Cutler, Edward Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: This man was dead when when brought into the Hospital. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 48 Gender: Female Date of admission: 24 Apr 1844 Date of death: 25 Apr 1844 Disease (transcribed): Acute Peritonitis Disease (standardised): Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted complaining of great pain and tenderness of the abdomen with prostration and restlessness. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 39 Gender: Female Date of admission: 21 February 1844 Date of death: 28 Apr 1844 Disease (transcribed): Fungoid disease of the ovary. Dropsy. Seropurulent effusion in the cavity of the right pleura. Laryngitis with effusion in the sub mucous cellular tissue. Disease (standardised): Fungoid disease (Ovary); Oedema (Abdomen); Oedema (Leg); Effusion (Pleura) Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with dropsy of the abdomen and oedema of the lower extremities. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, thorax and larynx Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 50 Gender: Male Date of admission: 28 February 1844 Date of death: 2 May 1844 Disease (transcribed): Dropsy and ascites. Subperitoneal cellular tissue of the liver very much thickened; liver compressed but not otherwise diseased. Mottled Kidneys. Hypertrophy of left ventricle. Disease (standardised): Ascites (Abdomen); Compressed (Liver); Mottled (Kidney); Hypertrophy (Heart) Admitted under the care of: Nairne, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with ascites and anasarca of two months standing apparently dependent upon a diseased state of the kidneys. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 12 Gender: Male Date of admission: 17 Jan 1844 Date of death: 9 May 1844 Disease (transcribed): Pleurisy. Pericarditis. Bicuspid valve thickened. Ascites and dropsy of the extremities. Liver large and puckered, with a peculiar yellow deposit. Disease (standardised): Pleurisy (Pleura); Pericarditis (Heart); Ascites (Abdomen); Oedema (Extremities); Disease (Liver) Admitted under the care of: Seymour, Edward James Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted after suffering from palpitations and difficulty breathing. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen and thorax Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 37 Gender: Female Date of admission: 29 Apr 1844 Date of death: 11 May 1844 Disease (transcribed): Anasarca and ascites. Thickening of the mitral and aortic valves with enlargement of the Heart. Liver large and gorged with blood. Disease (standardised): Ascites (Abdomen); Disease (Heart); Disease (Liver); Oedema (Leg) Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with great distention of the abdomen and oedema of the lower extremities and a cough. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 40 Gender: Female Date of admission: 15 May 1844 Date of death: 17 May 1844 Disease (transcribed): Ascites. Anasarca. Fluid in both pleura. Disease of Liver and Kidneys – the veins of these organs being blocked up by firm coagula containing in their centre a puriform fluid. Disease (standardised): Ascites (Abdomen); Fluid (Pleura); Disease (Liver); Disease (Kidney) Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with general anasarca and ascites and was in a state of great exhaustion having been brought out of her bed to which she had been confined for eleven weeks previously. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 65 Gender: Male Date of admission: 22 May 1844 Date of death: 27 May 1844 Disease (transcribed): Old apoplectic cyst. Enormous distention of the sigmoid flexure of the colon, the consequence of partial obstruction caused by the gut being inverted upon itself. Peritonitis. Disease (standardised): Cysts (Brain ); Distention (Intestines); Peritonitis (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted complaining of pain in the loins and left hypogastrium. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 70 Gender: Female Date of admission: 8 May 1844 Date of death: 29 May 1844 Disease (transcribed): Gangrene senilis. Calcareous and atheromatous deposits in the arteries. Peritonitis. Diseased ovaries. Disease (standardised): Gangrene (Foot); Plaque, Atherosclerotic (Arteries); Peritonitis (Abdomen); Disease (Ovary) Admitted under the care of: Keate, Robert Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient was admitted with gangrene of the skin over the heel. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen and left inferior extremity Type of incident: n/a
Occupation or role: [No occupation stated] Age: 61 Gender: Male Date of admission: 18 May 1844 Date of death: 30 May 1844 Disease (transcribed): Scirrhous pylorus spreading to the glands. Scirrhous deposits in mesentery. Disease (standardised): Cancer (Stomach); Cancer (Abdomen) Admitted under the care of: Macleod, Roderick Medical examination performed by: n/a Post mortem examination performed by: Hewett, Prescott Gardner Medical notes: The patient had enjoyed good health with the exception of slight Dyspeptic complaints, which became very much aggravated three months before and was accompanied by vomiting. Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax and abdomen Type of incident: n/a