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A 1935 operative resection specimen from a50 year old insurance clerk, ill for three months with dysphagia, flatulence...
Humans have wanted to fly for thousands of years. Modern jet engines allow us to fly more efficiently, at greater...
Elena Barton explains how a wide range of sensors using optics and sound waves can be engineered to monitor bridges and...
Engine driver David Gates takes us through the workings of a steam engnine to explain how they powered early trains,...
Dr. Martina Micheletti explains how monitoring the fluid dynamics through a bioreactor could help manufacturers produce...
A 1969 surgical resection specimen from a 59 year old man with crippling dyspnoea due to chronic rheumatic endocarditis...
An autopsy specimen from a 46 year old woman who walked into the side of a bus in the black-out, was crushed and killed...
A 1948 autopsy specimen from a woman aged 53 years, who had had difficulty in swallowing for about eight years before...
A 1969 autopsy specimen from a 69 year old woman who had had Raynaud's disease of the fingers since the age of 16...
A 1937 autopsy specimen from an infant aged two months, whopresented with projectile vomiting. The childwaswasted and...
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 full-term foetus shown in sagittal section. The anus is displaced forwards by a globular tumour measuring four inches...
An autopsy specimen from a 20 year old man, who presented to his G.P. with crampy, abdominal pain and episodic...
A 1958 operative resection specimen from a 50 year old man who had suffered from pain in the left iliac fossafor many...
A 1967 operative resection specimen from a 58 year old woman who had previously undergone caesium treatment and an...
A 1939 post mortem specimen from a 67 year old woman, who died of bronchopneumonia. The membranous septum is so thin...
A 1957 autopsy specimen from a 59 year old woman who was known to have been a blue baby, but survived without operation...
A 1947 autopsy specimen from a 19 year old man who had attended a special school since the age of ten years owing to a...
A 1976 autopsy specimen from a 31 year old female who was admitted to Guy's complaining of severe headache of...
A 1953 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man, who was sitting in a chair at home, just after returning from his day...
A 1958 autopsy specimen from a 69 year old docker who had been previously fit and well. He experienced crushing central...
A 1975 autopsy specimen from a 67 year old woman, a diabetic, who was admitted after collapsing at home. She gave a...
A 1937 autopsy specimen from a 67 year old man of no known occupation. He had had no medical attention "for many...
A 1937 autopsy specimen from a 28 year old woman who had had "a bad heart" since the age of thirteen, when...