Item 402 - Sarah Myers, 30, [No occupation stated]

Occupation or role: [No occupation stated]
Age: 30
Gender: Female
Date of admission: 30 Oct 1893
Date of death: 10 Nov 1893
Disease (transcribed): Exhaustion and cellulitis of legs after poisoning by prussic acid
Disease (standardised): Exhaustion (Systemic); Cellulitis (Skin); Poisoning (Systemic)
Admitted under the care of: Dickinson, William Howship
Medical examination performed by: Ogle, Cyril
Post mortem examination performed by: Dickinson, William Lee
Medical notes: She had been found unconscious in a first class railway carriage with a bottle labelled Prussic Acid lying on the seat near her. The patient, in easy circumstances of no occupation, had always been of a excitable and passionate disposition, and appeared to have taken the poison as the immediate consequence of a dispute with her mother over a trifling circumstance in which she was told to leave her house and not return.
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Brain, air passages, lungs, pleurae, pericardium, heart, intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas, supra-renal bodies and kidneys
Type of incident: Suicide