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An autopsy specimen from a 41 year old woman admitted in December 1963 with 45 per cent full thickness burns, due to...

A 1949 autopsy specimen from a 59 year old man who complained of pain in the chest on September 30th. The pain came on...

A 1976 autopsy specimen from a 57 year old man who presented with angina pectoris and then pain in his tongue. He had a...

A 1942 autopsy specimen from a 53 year old man, admitted with a right sided bronchopneumonia which had failed to...

A slice of liver which shows two well demarcated necrotic pale lesions 3 cms in diameter. The lower one has a...

A swiss autopsy specimen, comprising liver with a large necrotic cavity caused by Echinococcus multiocularis. The...

A 1912 autopsy specimen from a 56 year old man admitted, under Mr Arbuthnott Lane, for acute pain in the right side of...

A 73 year old woman who died two hours after admission to hospital. At autopsy, a gallstone stone was found in the...

An incidental finding at autopsy. No clinical details available.

Had this child lived, he would have had severe neurological deficit...

Part of a surgical amputation specimen from an 82 year old man. An aneurysm of the popliteal artery had been discovered...

An aneurysm bulges from the brain's basilar artery...

Lungs showing caseous TB pneumonia, "galloping consumption"...

A 1945 autopsy specimen from a female aged 30 who had had hepatitis fifteen years before death. Six months before dying...

A 1924 autopsy specimen from the London hospital comprising a portion of bladder together with the urethra opened to...

A Venezualan specimen from the early twentieth century comprising an extreme example of'Mossy foot' in which...

Part of a 1960 surgical resection specimen comprising the right lower leg from a native of New Guinea showing a large,...

A pot, from the old Wellcome collection, containing a slice of pig heart showing numerous thin walled cysticerci of...

A surgical diagnostic specimen from an East African patient presenting with unilateral inguinal lymphadenopathy and leg...

A 1963 autopsy specimen from a 21 year old woman with a three month history of weight loss, cough and occassional blood...

The specimen consists of transverse sections of a normal oesophagus (bottom) and seven others taken from patients who...

A 1963 autopsy specimen from Sao Paulo, Brazil. The specimen consists of a segment of sigmoid colon from an adult...

A 1971 autopsy specimen from the Dreadnought hospital comprising a partly hemisected testis showing multiple soft,...

Why does ice float in the cool summer drink of your choice? And why don't ponds and lakes freeze from the bottom...