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01 July 2011
A 1946 autopsy specimen from a 29 year old man, engaged in excavation work at Chingford, was knocked down and crushed...
01 July 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 52 year old female who was admitted in May 1981 with right sided hemiplegia. At the time of...
01 July 2011
An 1862 autopsy specimen from a 60 year old man admitted to Guy's with typhoid dying a fortnight afterwards.
01 July 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 59 year old man admitted with chest pain. An antero-septal infarct was diagnosed. He...
01 July 2011
A 1953 autopsy specimen from an 82 year old lady who had been confined to bed for five days with pain in the upper...
01 July 2011
A 1940 autopsy specimen from the London Hospital, comprising an almost healed tuberculous spine with marked kyphosis....
01 July 2011
A 1956 autopsy specimen from a female neonate who died the day following birth from the effects of an intra-cranial...
01 July 2011
A horizontal section of the upper heart showing the anatomical relations of the tricuspid, mitral, aortic and pulmonary...
01 July 2011
A 1911 autopsy specimen from a man aged 40 years, who was admitted under Dr. Shaw for pain in the left loin. He had had...
01 July 2011
A 1966 autopsy specimen from a man who was 27 when he died. He had been cyanosed from birth and suffered marked...
01 July 2011
An autopsy specimen from a 30 year old woman who continued to bleed following a miscarriage. The bleeding became more...
01 July 2011
A 1976 autopsy specimen from a 73 year old woman who developed tabesdorsalis in 1952, aortic incompetence in 1957, sero...
01 July 2011
A cardiac explant from a man who had been severely incapacitated by chronic cardiac failure and coronary artery disease...
01 July 2011
An 1899 autopsy specimen from an 8 month old child admitted on July 20th for convulsions, which had commenced five days...
01 July 2011
A 1948 autopsy specimen from a woman aged 53 years, who had had difficulty in swallowing for about eight years before...
01 July 2011
A 1933 autopsy specimen comprising a section of bladder from a case of Schistosoma haematobium infestation. The bladder...
01 July 2011
A 1948 autopsy specimen, from a 67 year old man who died following a coronary thrombosis. There had been recent...
01 July 2011
A 1975 autopsy specimen from a 50 year old woman with a long history of chronic bronchitis and emphysema. The specimen...
01 July 2011
An autopsy specimen from an 87 year old lady who, although suffering from dementia was otherwise fit and well,...
01 July 2011
1954 autopsy specimens from a 69 year old woman. She complained of pain in the chest during the day, retired to bed at...
01 July 2011
A 1938 autopsy specimen from a 46 year old man who had "not had a day's illness" from childhood until...
01 July 2011
An autopsy specimen, consisting of a section of lung showing an extensive area of pneumonic consolidation. Histology...
01 July 2011
An operative resection specimen from a 26 year old woman who first presented with bloody diarrhoea in 1969. Rectal...
01 July 2011
A 1971 operative resection specimen, from the Dreadnought hospital, consisting of part of a warty skin nodule (...