Item KH/CN/1/470 - Case notes, 1903, for patients under the care of William Watson Cheyne, Surgeon, King's College Hospital

Manuscript and typescript volume of case histories of male patients under the care of William Watson Cheyne, surgeon, King's College Hospital, featuring a wide range of general conditions including cleft palate, pneumococcal (swelling of upper thigh), enlarged prostate, pyelitis, arthritis, intestinal obstruction, abscesses, thyroid cancer, fistula, appendicitis, fractures, amputation for frost bite, un-descended testicles, and tubercular disease of the glands, and joints. Including a case of a bullet wound to the head sustained during a suicide attempt in the toilets of Temple Underground station, London, by a retired master mariner who twenty years previously had sustained an identical injury in an attack by Malay pirates. With charts and the first instance of an X-ray photograph in Watson Cheyne's notes. Patient details include name, age, sex, occupation, address, admission and discharge dates and name of dresser. Indexed by name of patient, and disease. Arranged in numerical order as entered into the hospital register. Fragile . 1 volume