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Today’s Find: This 1970 film was the second one from Roger Corman’s low-budget production company & began a popular series of nurse “exploitation” films https://t.co/v2cCpRZ34F

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2022-06-26

Anatomy of the skull from 1918 edition of Gray's Anatomy by Henry Vandyke Carter

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2022-06-25

Etching of William Burke murdering Margaret Docherty by Robert Seymour (1829). Burke and William Hare famously committed 16 murders over about ten months in 1828 and sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures.

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2022-06-23

The italian physiologist Carlo Matteucci was born in 1811. With his experiments on frogs he studied animal His "rheoscopic" frog was unique.

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2022-06-22

Sunday Patent Medicine Trade Card: From the Helfand Collection via https://t.co/h7vPE7nuXS John L. Hunnewell's formula manufactured by the Gilman Bros in Boston in the 1890s

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2022-06-13

Superficial dissection of the left side of the neck, from "An Atlas and Epitome of Operative Aanatomy" by Otto Zuckerkandl

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2022-06-11

Thoracic patient suffering from severe left pulmonary tuberculosis undergoing resection of the tubercular cavity and ribs (from IV to VIII) in 1895 by Dr. Macewen. The photograph was taken in 1911.

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2022-06-10

Seen from behind: schematic and radiological images of the chest as shown in the text "Surgery of the lung", by Karl Garrè and Heinrich Quincke, published in 1912.

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2022-06-09

Technique for measuring intracranial pressure by lumbar puncture as proposed by Heinrich Quincke in his booklet of 1902 “Die Technik der Lumbalpunktion”.

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2022-06-08

Today’s Find: Louis Crucius, MD, 1862-1898] created the wonderful Antikamnia calendar art issued 1897-1901 https://t.co/FSbiKD63QZ The company bought 30 of his watercolors just before his death at 35 after kidney surgery

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2022-05-28

The latest exhibition on doctors in visual satire is a treasure trove! As a researcher of death and medicine in satire I was delighted to see some familiar images - as well as many lurking skeletons

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2022-05-27

Images of the pancreas taken from the Atlas of Human "Heitzmann - Zuckerkandl", ninth edition, 1905.

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2022-05-19

Ambroise Paré, famous for improving amputation techniques in the 16th century.

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2022-05-18

Today’s Find: These dolls were associated with McCall’s magazine 1941-2000 https://t.co/ahv55KufPJ

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2022-05-18

The exhibition [Re]Framing Comics and the History of Medicine has opened Co-curated with Andre Wenzel, with support from

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2022-05-11

"In the vertebral column the centra of the vertebrae are excavated, while the intervertebral discs project are unchanged"
[Destruction of by - Textbook of by MacCallum, 1917]

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2022-05-11