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In 1863 there was an attempt to pass a Bill for the Prevention of Accidental Poisoning in the UK. At that time poisons were sold in ‘blanks’, a standard bottle used by pharmacist - and the same that medicines and other non-toxic household products were supplied in (📷 Wellcome)

@mortuarygem Happy Birthday!

These are damaged Purkinje neurons in the cerebellum - though I always see a swimming penguin.

The poster behind reads: "A course of anatomical lectures accompanied with dissections will be delivered tomorrow even[ing] by Professor Sawbone" Presumably it is these lectures the man on the table was intended for.

The care that went into these tombs can be seen not only in the exquisite carving: cadaver-Alice has paintings above her showing the annunciation and John the Baptist, visible only to her (and me, getting into some inelegant positions to peer up; these photos are reproductions)

It’s possible that he knew of this mixture, made from resin from the latch tree through his cousin, the similarly named Jean-Honoré Fragonard, painter of hedonistic rococo works
(Picture: Wikipedia)

For #MementoMoriMonday, here is the side of the tomb of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland. This is one of two figures dedicated to his sons Henry and Francis, who he believed had been killed by witchcraft

Had a lovely time chatting to @specimenspod at the end of last year, and it’s now available to listen to!

https://t.co/kXRTeCfqme

I’ve spent today in the special collections of Glasgow University library examining a few things from the extensive Danse Macabres of the Gemmell Collection. This is Death’s Door from Thomas Rowlandson’s The English Dance of Death from 1815