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This handy little graphic shows the most common symptoms of infection with Zika virus.

From Wikimedia Commons

Do the words "pleasant" and "laxative" really belong next to each other?

From Wellcome Collection

Pupil dilation is one of the less deadly side effects of atropine, one of the toxins contained in Atropa belladonna. Figure 6 on the bottom right of this image illustrates this response following ingestion of atropine.

From Wellcome Collection

Ever wanted to know how the belladonna plant got its name? Or who put the 'deadly' in 'deadly nightshade'? It's your lucky day! Check out our latest ep on the fascinating Atropa belladonna, featuring one of our favorite people, Matt from In Defense of Plants!

Wikimedia Commons

While tetrodotoxin gets its name from the order of fish, Tetraodontiformes, not every fish in the order has tetrodotoxin! Boxfish, while closely related to pufferfish, use a completely different type of toxin as a defense mechanism. (and they're so dang cute)

Here's hoping your #SkeletonSaturday is less ghoulish than the one in this drawing from an 1808 book.

From the British Library

Diphtheria was known as the strangling angel for the horrible symptoms it caused in its victims. Richard Tennant Cooper, a British artist whose subjects were often about death and disease painted this depiction of diphtheria trying to strangle a sick child.

Wellcome Collection

According to Wellcome Collection, this is an illustration of a long probe in the forearm introduced to counteract formation of an abscess due to gunshot wound. Gross.

It's #SkeletonSaturday, y'all. What do you think that scroll that he's got in his hand says? Or maybe it's a baton?

Christoph Jacob Trew: Tabulae osteologicae. From NIH

@silomel91 cestodes have a complex life cycle, so the stickleback probably ate infected copepods or other small crustaceans. Never saw it coming😏
Figure from: https://t.co/Ey3JnAwJM5