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Aorta with aneurysm

Bell’s catalogue entry states: ‘Aorta having an Aneurism at the place of the coeliac arteries, distended and dried from a Woman about forty five years of age who was a patient in the Middlesex Hospital, and was treated for a complaint in her Uterus, no blood was found effused. There are specks of ossific concretion near the Situation of the rupture of the Artery. The Womb was extensively diseased.’ Bell Collection BC. xii.2M.56. GC 11012.