The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers and the annual report of the Inspector and Director, of the Public Hospital, for 1864, with the reply of the ordinary medical officers thereto : the letter of Alexander Fiddes ... and his correspondence with the governor, and the executive committee on the subject of his resignation and retirement from the Hospital : the letter of L.Q. Bowerbank ... in reply to Dr. Fiddes, and Dr. Fiddes' reply to same : also, the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquest, held on Richard Bailey, lately an inmate of the Public Hospital.
- Kingston Public Hospital (Jamaica)
- Date:
- 1865
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Credit: The report of the ordinary and resident medical officers and the annual report of the Inspector and Director, of the Public Hospital, for 1864, with the reply of the ordinary medical officers thereto : the letter of Alexander Fiddes ... and his correspondence with the governor, and the executive committee on the subject of his resignation and retirement from the Hospital : the letter of L.Q. Bowerbank ... in reply to Dr. Fiddes, and Dr. Fiddes' reply to same : also, the evidence adduced at the coroner's inquest, held on Richard Bailey, lately an inmate of the Public Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1 <*»««• a probe into the s^^«LS^s^ss?ss!r^^^ ^=i happen, whenever a line and small ed urinary canal, namely that the loose and flaccid coats of the5K vour to pass the instrument, I would certainly have done so •’butmcSeter£ Wd iHS? bSn ^olefo°bjeCtJ01;Whic^ 1 interfcred '4 -In S jfeSra? ^n tSUha- «sryVfreelye, and mpured toTe d5*Sd and in thus ha ^ consideration whS£“S after Se nece8sa^for the case. I left the hospital 4 days S te &rSiSTrb^ *£ *® af^tspti^FS that examinaS^n 1fh°^ P°r F** mortem appearances is drawn up. Itf +ltnwh l ^ ^uth ordans of the chest were first examined, and they were on &t£z's£rjr£?jr-'aU* ^ mp?*™ «*» m »s« blv he’ilfhv Jm i, fv 1^e ’ t- ie orSans in the abdominal cavity, w7ere remarka nevs were wasted ®xcePbl0n of the kidneys and urinary bladder ; both kid ’ CMlt.racted, and hardened, and were considerably advance sons1 of advancerfnerp1 fra,rmlar degeneration, which is not uncommon in per sufferedf™™nflli? particularly frequent in individuals who have urn eh d i °f th,e hladder and urethra The bladder itself was very m S1Z6’ fhd,greatly thickened in its coats, so much so, that it much 1 I™ certainly not more than four inches, and probablv not so wW tu „ d Particularly the condition of the urinary canal, and the part whei e the incision had been made for the removal of the catheter : the cana nenfs wde,fnd caPacious, from its termination at the end of th K!£ag i? at the urn?ary bladder; there was no appearance to shoi ?r, fh? h d ev,er been any urinary fistulse in connection with it. The wound Lulr h?r!TeUm botWee!|tlie scrotum and anus, through which the broken ca- l rln/h^ p?enf fm0vedh )vas black and discolored, and the cellularmem- thf t diatelI ar,°Und Jt’ fas evidently in a sloughy condition ; it was clear that m reference to the wound, nature had failed to establish those conserve t,rm,n!fdfirCpara ye Pr.°£es.ses> hY effusion of coagulable lymph within am ar°™f ,tbe .w-md> which is essential to guard patients operated upon in thi part of the body against the risk of urinary infiltration. The integuments c were stripped of the cuticle, and presented an appearance ver much like washed chamois leather; on being cut, they emitted a great deal o s ro-purulent exudation, they had not been entirely dead, but had been threat emng to die, and if Bailey had lived two or three days longer, there would tx uo doubt that the whole of the covering of the testicles would have seperate. ny mortmction. ihese are the chief appearances in regard to the post mor tern examination, that I will trouble the Jury with. The glans-penis h been entirely gone by pre-existing disease. [Dr. Fiddes here stated that the ns,st or ins evidence would be a commentary on the previous evidence, if the Jury desn-ed to hear it.] Jhe Coroner ruled that Dr. Fiddes could do so. Mr. Delgado, objecting, borne confusion here ensued between the Foreman and Mr. Delgado. . ~T' b lddes, in continuation—The next stage of evidence to which mv attention has been directed, is that on the 27th January -^eleven days after! iiad operated on Itichard Bailey’s prepuce—Dr, Anderson, the Ordinary Me'](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22317983_0058.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
