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  • Stomach, with mucous membrane thickened and mammillated
  • Polypi of the mucous membrane of the stomach
  • Polypus of the mucous membrane of the stomach
  • Congestion of the mucous membrane of the stomach
  • Mucous membrane of the vagina showing scarring and puckering
  • Small tubercular deposits beneath the mucous membrane of an ileum
  • Sloughing of the mucous membrane in the colon in enteric fever
  • Sloughing of the mucous membrane in the colon in enteric fever
  • Bulb shaped tumour suspended from the mucous membrane of the pharynx
  • Pedunculated fibrous tumour springing from the mucous membrane of the mouth
  • Extreme ecchymosis of the mucous membrane of the bladder from a case of enteric fever
  • Melanotic sarcoma growing from the mucous membrane of the lip and upper alveolar border of the jaw
  • Dermoid cyst laid open, showing maxillary bone containing teeth; the head of one of the long bones; skin with hair growing from its surface; serous membrane (probe passed underneath); mucous membrane of stomach directly next to serous membrane (Baldy)
  • Aconitum carmichaelii Debeaux. Ranunculaceae. Chinese aconite, Chinese wolfsbane, Carmichael's monkshood. Herbaceous perennial. Distribution C. to W. China to N. America. Named for Dr J.R. Carmichael (d. 1877), English physician, plant collector and Protestant missionary from 1862-1877 in Guangdong and Shandong, China initially in Canton. He aided Francis Forbes to collect plants for Kew. Aconitum plants are so poisonous that Theophrastus states that death was the punishment for possessing them. Aconitine is the poison and was used - from Aconitum ferox - in the 'curry murder' in London in 2009. It causes respiratory paralysis, bradycardia (slowing of the pulse), cardiac arrhythmias, tingling, sweating, gastric cramps, diarrhoea and death, both by ingestion and by absorption through the mucous membranes and the skin. Despite this it is widely used in Chinese herbal medicine. It is a restricted herbal medicine which can only be dispensed by a herbal practitioner for external use following a one-to-one consultation, or by prescription from a registered doctor or dentist (UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • 'Pectocel' : pectin and kaolin compound.
  • A tumour constricting the entrance to the stomach. Oil painting, 18--.
  • A tumour constricting the entrance to the stomach. Oil painting, 18--.
  • A tumour constricting the entrance to the stomach. Oil painting, 18--.
  • Small intestine from a case of phthisis
  • Stomach, ten days after poisoning with sulphuric acid
  • Yellow fever: section of the large intestine of a patient infected with yellow fever. Watercolour, 1900/1930 (?).
  • Stomach and duodenum after poisoning by a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids
  • Croupus exudation of the larynx and trachea
  • Tubercular ulcer on the lower lip
  • Epithelioma around the orifice of the larynx
  • Interior of a bladder with two tubercular ulcers
  • Interior of the trachea of a woman who died from glanders
  • Melanotic sarcoma growing at the corner of the mouth
  • Interior of the stomach after poisoning with prussic acid
  • Kidneys and bladder from a case of tuberculosis of the urinary tract