English physician who became the personal doctor of Queen Victoria and discovered both typhus and typhoid. Handwritten autopsy report, signed “William Jenner M. D.,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 4.5 x 7, May 13, 1854. In part: “Appearances found on the examination of the remains of the late Mrs, Lawes. May 13, 1854. The contents of the Cranium were healthy in all particulars. The blood throughout the body was coagulated in the usual manner. The lungs were affected generally to a high degree With atrophous emphysema. At the apices of both lungs were a large number of air vesicles as large as nuts, some even the size of of male walnuts. At the posterior part of the apex of the right lung was a mass of consolidated lung substance of about 3/4 of an inch in diameter & 1/c of an inch in thickness…some excess of muco-purulant fluid in the bronchial tubes…no tubercles in the lungs…the muscular fibres of both ventricles of the heart were affected with fatty and granular generation…no valvular lesions of the heart…the liver was tough and granular.” Uniform light toning to first page and a paperclip impression to top edge, otherwise fine condition. A very uncommon and enthralling format. RR Auction COA.
