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Liver from a woman who died of puerpal eclampsia
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Liver from a woman who died of puerpal eclampsia

Mark, Leonard Portal

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Wellcome Collection

Watercolour drawing of the liver of a woman who died of puerpal eclampsia. The organ is pale is fatty, and shows numerous subserous haemorrhages. From a patient in Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, London.

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