Naked Pathology

A 1957 autopsy specimen from a 59 year old woman who was known to have been a blue baby, but survived without operation...

A 1963 autopsy specimen comprising a portion of a heart showing thickening of the epicardium at the apex. From a woman...

First specimen: A surgical resection specimen from a 66 year old woman, admitted from Guernsey for investigation of a...

An autopsy specimen from a child with severe burns who developed a pseudomonas infection of the denuded skin and died...

A 1948 autopsy specimen from a woman aged 53 years, who had had difficulty in swallowing for about eight years before...

An operative resection specimen consisting of two enlarged anthracotic lymph nodes showing extensive areas of caseation...

A 1937 autopsy specimen from a 28 year old woman who had had "a bad heart" since the age of thirteen, when...

A 1967 operative resection specimen from a 58 year old woman who had previously undergone caesium treatment and an...

A Ugandan autopsy specimen from a 4 year old african girl admitted with tumour of the jaw. She died two days after...

An autopsy specimen from the Wellcome collection, comprising a section of liver from an elderly Kenyan male who died...

An incidental finding from the autopsy of a 74 year old woman who died from bronchopneumonia.

A 1969 surgical resection specimen from a 59 year old man with crippling dyspnoea due to chronic rheumatic endocarditis...

A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 48 year old obese woman who had been in hospital for 5 months suffering from a...

A 1975 autopsy specimen from a 67 year old woman, a diabetic, who was admitted after collapsing at home. She gave a...

An autopsy specimen from a 20 year old man, who presented to his G.P. with crampy, abdominal pain and episodic...

A 1942 resection specimen comprising a hemisected onchocercal nodule excised from the subcutaneous tissues of the...

A 1937 autopsy specimen from a 31 year old man who had suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs for six years and had...

An autopsy specimen shows a section of the thoracic aorta just below the arch. A large dissecting aneurysm lies on the...

A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man, who was sitting in a chair at home, just after returning from his day...

An 1863 autopsy specimen from a 23 year old cattle-drover, who dropped dead while driving a beast in the streets. At...

A resin cast of the aortic valve viewed from below demonstrating the normal origin of the coronary arteries.

An autopsy specimen from a 78 year old male. He presented with a history of flexor spasms in the legs of 4 months...

Miss Valerie W., aged 21, first came under medical care at the age of 13 when she was admitted to Putney Hospital and a...

A 1938 autopsy specimen, comprising a portion of right lung, from a man aged 22 who died from influenzal...