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Date(s)
- 1906 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 vol
Scope and content
Manuscript volume of case histories of female patients under the care of William Watson Cheyne, surgeon, King's College Hospital, featuring a wide range of general conditions including an excision of a suprarenal tumour, ligation of thyroid arteries in a case of exophthalmic goitre, abscesses, appendicitis, bronchitis, cancer of the breast, stomach, rectum, duodenum and omentum, colitis, cysts, correction of deformities such as flat foot, dislocated hip, fibroma, visceroptosis (displacement of the gut), mastitis, moveable kidney, peritonitis, haemorrhoids, kidney stones, tonsillitis, thrombosis, tubercular disease of glands and joints and a case of a motor accident. With charts. 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. 1 volume