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The anatomy of a brain dissection

Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.

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The blight of the ballooning blood vessels

In 1817 an emergency operation on a London porter was hailed a ‘success’ despite the patient’s swift demise. Find out how this case became a landmark in vascular surgery.

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The shock of cardiac arrest when you’re young and fit

Footballer Christian Eriksen’s on-pitch collapse in 2020, witnessed by thousands, was shocking. Fellow cardiac-arrest survivor Meg Fozzard explores the risks in the young and fit, and how we can all help.

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  • Coronary artery disease
  • Diseases of the arteries including angina pectoris / by Clifford Allbutt.
  • A treatise on the diseases of arteries and veins, containing the pathology and treatment of aneurisms and wounded arteries / [Joseph Hodgson].
  • A diseased artery. Coloured stipple etching after J. Bell, c. 1810 (?).
  • Engravings, intended to illustrate some of the diseases of arteries. Accompanied with explanations / [Joseph Hodgson].
  • A diseased lung, with an aneurysm of the pulmonary artery. Chromolithograph by W. Gummelt, ca. 1897.
  • A diseased artery (aneurism of the aorta); and a diseased section of bone, numbered for key. Lithograph by Batelli after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • Three examples of diseased arteries of the heart, numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ferdinando Ferrari, c. 1843.
  • Several sections of diseased artery (aneurism of the aorta), numbered for key. Coloured lithograph by Batelli after Ottavio Muzzi, c. 1843.
  • Observations on some of the most frequent and important diseases of the heart; on aneurism of the thoracic aorta; on preternatural pulsation in the epigastric region: and on the unusual origin and distribution of some of the large arteries. Of the human body / [Allan Burns].
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