Sutured Infection

museum-of-odd:

One of the skulls from my personal collection, being photographed with a very old large format camera.

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t-s-k-b:

The Official Radio-Guy.Com Newsletter - Oversized Wax Anatomical Model – 1800s

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catafalques:

Wax model of a female human head, Germany, 1801-1900

Complete with eyelashes, this remarkably life-like wax head has been cut away to show the skull and the muscles of the eye, face and neck. Wax models were used for teaching anatomy to medical students or as part of popular anatomy shows. They were used to pick out and emphasise specific features of the body, making their structure and function easier to understand, especially at a time when few bodies were available for dissection. The model was donated by the Department of Human Anatomy at the University of Oxford.

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I took a little tour of Havre Beneath the Streets last week and got a few nice snaps.

_{And I know some of these antiques were just for props’ sake, but that didn’t make me like them any less. :D}

staceythinx:

Volume Rendering CT scans by voxel123 

Various prosthetics, 1890-1910

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catafalques:

Ivory model of a human skull with moving parts, Europe, undated: This is a model of a human skull made in ivory. The eyes, tongue and the lower jaw move when the cylinder at the base is pushed.

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Position of eyeball in orbit, from William Norris and Charles Oliver’s System of diseases of the eye, 1897

bloodyantlers:

Mark Osterman

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From Andreas Vesalius’s De humani corporis fabrica libri septem, 1543

slowartday:

Magdalena Dukiewicz

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biomedicalephemera:

Early ether administration methods

Top: Using a drip-cloth to put a woman in labor under anesthesia.
Second: Gauze-filled face-piece used in the same manner as the drip-cloth (by soaking the covering material).
Third: Automatic pressurized ether gas administration mask.
Fourth: Manual ether gas administration mask.

The early anesthesia gasses consisted of nitrous oxide (laughing gas), ether, and chloroform. Ether was the most effective in putting people under, and had the largest therapeutic index (the difference between the recommended dosage and a toxic overdose), but had significant side-effects (such as nausea and vomiting, even before consciousness was regained, resulting in aspiration), and suppressed the autonomic breathing reflex in high enough concentrations.

Today, the only one of the three original anesthetic gasses that is still in use is nitrous oxide. It’s generally used along with local anesthetic, since it is not of the best use in causing complete unconsciousness, but its action on the brain decreases discomfort whilst awake.

Images:
An American Text-Book of Obstetrics for Practitioners and Students. Edited by Richard C. Norris, 1895.
High-Grade Hospital Furniture and Appliances Catalog. Max Wocher & Son, 1905.

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samuel-long:

London Fog, 1938

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