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Video podcast strands produced by the Naked Scientists.
01 September 2011
A 1943 autopsy specimen from a 27 year old found unconscious, frothing at the mouth, by the side of her bed. She was...
01 September 2011
An incidental finding from an autopsy on a 72 year old lady dying of ischaemic heart disease in 1978.
01 September 2011
A 1974 autopsy specimen from a 72 year old obese woman who had had a history of gallstones for many years. For the two...
01 September 2011
A 1971 autopsy specimen from the Dreadnought hospital. The specimen, an incidental finding, comprises a male urethra...
01 September 2011
An 1864 autopsy specimen from a 36 year old man admitted for stricture of the urethra. When about to be discharged,...
01 September 2011
A 1958 autopsy specimen from a 54 year old man admitted with a history of attacks of colicky abdominal pain. On...
01 September 2011
A 1958 operative resection specimen comprising an appendix removed from a 20 year old man who presented with classic...
01 September 2011
A 1998 autopsy specimen from a 35 year old Ugandan female, who presented at the late stage of Aids with a CD4 count of...
01 September 2011
An operative resection specimen from a 43 year old woman with von Recklinghausen's Disease (neurofibromatosis) who...
01 September 2011
A liver from a woman aged 55 from Dominica who suffered from Schistosomamansoni infection. Death was due to...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 13 year old boy who died of staphylococcal septicaemia. No other clinical details are...
01 September 2011
A 1931 autopsy specimen from a man, aged 71, who had had a coronary occlusion two and a half years prior to his death....
01 September 2011
A 1958 autopsy specimen from a patient who died of a'byronesque' massive pulmonary haemorrhage due to...
01 September 2011
A 1912 autopsy specimen from a 73 year old man who presented with acute abdominal pain of four days duration,...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 40 year old woman had increasing dyspnoea for thirteen years with recent attacks of winter...
01 September 2011
A 1948 autopsy specimen from a 71 year old man, who died of heart failure due to hypertension. There had been no...
01 September 2011
An historic autopsy specimen from a 32 year old rent collector seen in consultation by a Guy's physician six weeks...
01 September 2011
A 1917 autopsy specimen from an officer in the British army in France who until the day before his death was in robust...
01 September 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 66 year old female with quadriparesis progressing over 14 years.
01 September 2011
A 1928 operative resection specimen from a 40 year old man admitted with symptoms of intestinal obstruction. Six years...
01 September 2011
An 1861 autopsy specimen from a 32 year old woman admitted for enlargement of the abdomen. She died a week after her...
01 September 2011
A neonatal autopsy specimen from a case of alleged neglect at birth. An unmarried girl of 27, already the mother of...
21 August 2011
We explore how the jet engine evolved to become such an efficient, powerful piece of technology, from the early designs...
14 August 2011
David Compton from Industrial Chemicals Ltd explains the conditions, materials and equipment needed to make tonnes of a...