Nervous system diseases

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1902 Archival description results for Nervous system diseases

1897 results directly related Exclude narrower terms

Mary R. Damon, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 5
Date of admission: 1 Feb 1854
Date of death: 12 Feb 1854
Disease (transcribed): Scarlet fever. Sloughing of the tonsils. Congested cerebral vessels
Disease (standardised): Scarlet fever (Systemic); Sloughing (Tonsils); Congestion (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This child was brought to the hospital because she had attained the age of 5 years without ever having been able to walk. She was very diminutive, but had not otherwise the aspect of disease. Her teeth it was remarked were small & ill-developed, and her manner indicated some degree of imbecility’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium & spine, pharynx & larynx, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

James Webb, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 50
Date of admission: 21 Feb 1854
Date of death: 1 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Concussion of brain. Extravasations of blood in brain. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Concussion (Brain); Extravasation (Brain); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted in the evening of the 21st of February, having fallen off a building on which he was at work, a height it was said of about 40 feet’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: Trauma / accident

George Powell, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 25
Date of admission: 1 Mar 1854
Date of death: 5 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Injury from a fall. Fracture of the jaw & femur & radius. Extravasation of blood into arachnoid sac
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Fracture (Thigh); Fracture (Arm); Extravasation (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man had fallen off a building (Brompton Hospital), a height of about 40 feet’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Fractured radius & femur, cranium

Type of injury: Trauma / accident

H.J. Blagrove, Gentleman

Occupation or role: Gentleman
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Date of admission: 28 Feb 1854
Date of death: 4 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Fracture on the wall of orbit. Separation of the frontal malar suture. Extravasation of blood in the fornix and thalamus
Disease (standardised): Fracture (Skull); Extravasation (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Hawkins, Caesar Henry
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This patient was a gentleman, who had been flung from his horse near the hospital. On his admission he was completely insensible’
Post mortem notes: 'At the particular request of the friends no other part of the body [apart from cranium] was examined’

Type of injury: Trauma / accident

Charlotte Ashby, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 20
Date of admission: 8 Mar 1854
Date of death: 11 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Effusion of fluid into cerebral ventricles. Softening of the central white structures of brain
Disease (standardised): Effusion (Brain); Softening (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This girl had been suffering from pain in the head for a fortnight before her admission. She had had no shivering or pain elsewhere. No cause for its occurrence could be assigned. She imagined it to be nervous headache, from which she had formerly suffered’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Thomas Currie, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 60
Date of admission: 18 Feb 1854
Date of death: 9 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Phagedoena connected with fistula in ano. Congested brain
Disease (standardised): Ulcer (Anus); Congestion (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This man was admitted on the 19th of Feb on account of a fistula in ano, the extreme opening of which had been only recently established’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen, pelvis, thorax, cranium

Type of injury: n/a

Mary Long, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 8
Date of admission: 14 Dec 1853
Date of death: 15 Mar 1854
Disease (transcribed): Hydrocephalus. Cyst in the cerebellum
Disease (standardised): Hydrocephalus (Brain); Cyst (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'A scrofulous-looking child admitted with stratismus of left eye, dilatation of both pupils, some confusion of intellect & no paralysis. The history given was that she had had an attack of convulsions after exposure to the sun 3 years ago, followed by delirium &c’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium. Thorax

Type of injury: n/a

Edward Atfield, Groom

Occupation or role: Groom
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Date of admission: 29 Mar 1854
Date of death: 2 Apr 1854
Disease (transcribed): Phthisis. Pneumonia. Epileptic attacks & semicoma. Vomicae. Subarachnoid & ventricular fluid
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Lung); Pneumonia (Lung); Epilepsy (Brain); Abscess (Lung); Disease (Brain);
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient who was a groom, had been exposed to cold in crossing to France in the early part of December and had suffered for some 5 weeks from cough & shortness of breath’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

John Dollan, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 32
Date of admission: 26 Apr 1854
Date of death: 3 May 1854
Disease (transcribed): Dropsy. Albumenous urine. Epileptic convulsions
Disease (standardised): Edema (Systemic); Disease (Kidney); Epilepsy (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Post mortem notes: 'This body was removed unexamined’

Type of injury: n/a

Harriet Pettit, Servant

Occupation or role: Servant
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Date of admission: 1 Apr 1854
Date of death: 23 Jun 1854
Disease (transcribed): Fever. Brain soft & dripping with serum. Ulceration of caecum & colon. Oedema of both lungs. Sloughs on the sacrum & trochanter
Disease (standardised): Fever (Systemic); Disease (Brain); Ulcer (Intestines); Edema (Lung); Sloughing (Pelvis, hip);
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This girl was admitted labouring under a very severe attack of fever. She stated that she had been ailing during 3 months past while in service at Richmond, but had only felt so ill as to keep her [in] bed during ten days’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of injury: n/a

Henry Beckley, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 29
Date of admission: 31 May 1854
Date of death: 4 Jul 1854
Disease (transcribed): Epilepsy. Ventricles of brain distended with serum. Diseased kidney
Disease (standardised): Epilepsy (Brain); Disease (Brain); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'A pale-faced, wretched-looking fellow, who stated that he had been first attacked by fits which were evidently of an epileptic character on the 24th inst’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

George Anbery, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 34
Date of admission: 11 Jul 1854
Date of death: 13 Jul 1854
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Serous effusion on brain. Vascularity of the calvaria
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Effusion (Brain); Vascularity (Skull)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'The present was the second occasion on which this patient had been admitted into the hospital with delirium tremens. He said he had been attacked a fortnight ago with pain in the head. Herpes had come out on the lips last week […] He was reported to have been rambling a good deal the whole time & to have had very little sleep’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Fanny Cordery, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 11
Date of admission: 19 Jul 1854
Date of death: 24 Jul 1854
Disease (transcribed): Serous effusion on the brain
Disease (standardised): Effusion (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'As the body was not examined, this case is not given’
Post mortem notes: 'This body at the particular request of the friends was not examined’

Type of injury: n/a

Richard Till, Stableman

Occupation or role: Stableman
Gender: Male
Age: 72
Date of admission: 23 Jul 1854
Date of death: 23 Jul 1854
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Apoplexy. Disease of the arteries of the brain
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Stroke (Brain); Disease (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This man who was a stable helper, had been found in the stable on the morning of his admission in a state of complete unconsciousness, but nothing was known of how this had occurred’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Henry Mathews, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 67
Date of admission: 8 Aug 1854
Date of death: 8 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Extravasation of blood into subarachnoid tissues of brain & into lateral ventricles. Diseased valves of the heart
Disease (standardised): Extravasation (Brain); Disease (Heart)
Admitting doctor: Bence Jones, Henry
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This patient was brought to the hospital about 2.45pm having been found in the watercloset in a perfectly unconscious state an hour previously. His breathing was thick, & attended with puffing of the cheeks during each expiration. He was twice sick. He never recovered from his comatose state & died in about 4 hours’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

John Bentley, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 88
Date of admission: 17 Aug 1854
Date of death: 20 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Retention of urine from enlarged prostate. Calculi in kidney. Senile dementia
Disease (standardised): Urinary retention (Prostate); Calculus (Kidney); Dementia (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Cutler, Edward
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This old man applied (or rather was brought by his friends) for admission late in the evening of the 17th of the month. He was in a state of senile dementia, and was very violent & noisy, but could be made to understand simple questions when his attention was forcibly excited. It appeared from his wife’s account that he had been suffering from partial retention of urine for some time, & had had an instrument passed without much difficulty about a month ago, but had not paid further attention to it’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Mary Croft, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 76
Date of admission: 23 Aug 1854
Date of death: 30 Aug 1854
Disease (transcribed): Extravasation of blood into brain. Diseased kidneys
Disease (standardised): Extravasation (Brain); Disease (Kidney)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Rogers, George Goddard
Medical notes: 'This woman was brought in by a policeman from Chelsea. She was found in a comatose condition, was speechless & had lost all power in the right side’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, left ventrible, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Frederick Pendray, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 30
Date of admission: 13 Sep 1854
Date of death: 15 Sep 1854
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Serous effusion on the surface & in the ventricles of the brain. Cholera?
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Effusion (Brain); Cholera (Intestines)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient was believed to have had an attack of cholera before admission. He was a man of intemperate habits, and was in a tremulous, agitated state when admitted with a red & dry tongue, and having had no sleep for one or two nights’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

Clara Styant, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Female
Age: 60
Date of admission: 3 Oct 1854
Date of death: 22 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Epilepsy. Scalp wound owing to a fall whilst in a fit. Bruised brain
Disease (standardised): Epilepsy (Brain); Wound (Scalp); Bruise (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This old woman, who was said to have been subject to epileptic fits, was admitted in consequence of an injury to the head said to have been received by falling down in the street in an attack of that kind’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

John Pymon, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 45
Date of admission: 18 Oct 1854
Date of death: 24 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Softening of spinal chord. Effusion into cerebral ventricles &c
Disease (standardised): Softening (Spinal cord); Effusion (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Page, William Emanuel
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This patient, who was unable to walk when admitted, was reported to be suffering from rheumatism, which had deprived him of the use of his legs’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen, spinal column

Type of injury: n/a

William Quinton, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Date of admission: 17 Oct 1854
Date of death: 18 Oct 1854
Disease (transcribed): Delirium tremens. Effusion on the brain. Diseased liver
Disease (standardised): Alcohol withdrawal delirium (Brain); Effusion (Brain); Disease (Liver)
Admitting doctor: Nairne, Robert
Surgeon: Gray, Henry
Physician: Barclay, Andrew Whyte
Medical notes: 'This man was brought into the hospital in a completely delirious state, with jaundiced eyes, [?] tongue, moist skin, tremulous movements, and unable to give any account of himself. It was stated that he had formerly been in a warm climate and that he had acquired very dissipated habits, latterly drinking as much as 3 bottles of gin daily. He was ordered to have some bottled stout’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: n/a

William Sibley, [Occupation not stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Gender: Male
Age: 60
Date of admission: 28 Nov 1854
Date of death: 30 Nov 1854
Disease (transcribed): Extensive scalp wound. Serious effusion under arachnoid
Disease (standardised): Wound (Scalp); Effusion (Brain)
Admitting doctor: Johnson, Henry Charles
Surgeon: Ogle, John William
Physician: Holmes, Timothy
Medical notes: 'This man, whose age appeared to be considerably greater than the one given, but who had always enjoyed good health, was admitted on account of an injury of the head by falling down a story of an unfinished house. He had struck his head against something in the fall’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Scalp, cranium, thorax, abdomen

Type of injury: Trauma / accident

Mabel Smith, 36, Dressmaker

Occupation or role: Dressmaker
Age: 36
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 27 Mar 1918
Date of death: 10 Apr 1918
Disease (transcribed): Acute mastoiditis. Operation. Cerebellar abscess. Pyocephalus. Gangrenous basal meningitis. Encephalitis
Disease (standardised): Mastoiditis (Ear); Operation (Ear); Abscess (Brain); Pyocephalus (Brain); Meningitis (Brain); Encephalitis (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Barwell, Harold Shuttleworth
Medical examination performed by: Ingleby, Helen
Post mortem examination performed by: Claremont, Hetty Ethelberta
Medical notes: 'Jan 1916 IP [in-patient] for chronic mastoid. Radical cure. Headaches after with intermittent rises of temperature and vomiting. She went to AMCH [Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital] where these symptoms continued. Diplopia after the operation, due to weakness in upward movement’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen, cranium

Type of incident: n/a

James Holland, 45, Cabdriver

Occupation or role: Cabdriver
Age: 45
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 13 Mar 1918
Date of death: 16 Mar 1918
Disease (transcribed): Old-standing tuberculous disease of left hip joint. Excision & amputation. Lardaceous disease. Suppurative myositis around left hip & of left psoas & iliacus muscles
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Hip); Amputation (Hip); Amyloidosis (Kidneys); Myositis (Muscles); Suppuration (Muscles)
Admitted under the care of: Fedden, Walter Fedde
Medical examination performed by: Trevor, Robert Salusbury
Post mortem examination performed by: Claremont, Hetty Ethelberta
Medical notes: '23 years ago excision of left hip. 1914 sinuses ever since. Scraped. 1917. IP [in-patient] still discharging. Leg wasted. Lordosis. Sent to Wimbledon [Atkinson Morley Hospital]. Oct 1917. ISQ [in status quo]. Amputation through the hip-joint by Mr Fedden [Walter Fedde Fedden]. Much pus found. Drained. Sent to Wimbledon. Mar 13, 1918. Returned from Wimbledon. 3 weeks previously the right foot and both scrota began to swell’
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Thorax, abdomen

Type of incident: n/a

[No name], [No age stated], [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: [No age stated]
Gender: Male
Date of admission: 01 May 1847
Date of death: 02 May 1847
Disease (transcribed): Extensive apoplectic effusion with softening of the brain. Cyst of ophthalmic vein with calcareous walls. Great hypertrophy of left ventricle. Blood fluid
Disease (standardised): Stroke (Brain); Effusion (Brain); Cysts (Eye); Calcareous deposit (Eye); Disease (Brain)
Admitted under the care of: Wilson, James Arthur
Medical examination performed by: Fuller, Henry William
Post mortem examination performed by: Pollock, George
Medical notes: This man was brought into the Hospital by the Police, having been picked up in the street a short time previously in a state of complete insensibility.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Cranium, thorax and abdomen
Type of incident: n/a

Results 376 to 400 of 1902