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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...

A 1941 preparation consisting of two aortic valves (upper and middle specimens) and one pulmonary valve (lower specimen...

A 1969 autopsy specimen from a 46 year old man who had been known to have rheumatic endocarditis since his discharge...

A 1964 autopsy specimen from a woman of 52 who died in hospital (Whipps Cross) shortly after collapsing unexpectedly at...

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

A 1983 operative specimen. This unusually symmetrical thrombus was removed from the left atrium of a woman with a...

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

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

A 1948 operative resection specimen from a 63 year old woman who was admitted complaining of swelling in the neck and...

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

An autopsy specimen from a 62 year old woman who died of cerebral infarction. This piece of liver contains an old well-...

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

An autopsy from an elderly male with a history of chronic empyema prior to death. No further medical details available.

A 1915 autopsy specimen from a patient who dies of falciparum malaria. No further clinical details available.

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