(Source: impurehorses, via amesolitaire)

“When morphine for injection was first introduced it was often injected just under the skin rather than intravenously, though this could lead to abscesses and scarring as shown here. This ‘morphinomaniac’ subject was a male nurse pictured shortly before his death.” (Illustration by H H Kane, 1881 - courtesy Wellcome Images)

Yo, Londoners! Get your lazy arses to Euston’s Wellcome Collection to check out their new show High Society. 

Something from last week’s Old SpitFields Market (1915).

Currently being framed by the great people at Bramley HQ. Thanks, guys! x

Harvey Cushing, 1869-1939 (via Joanna the Great at Morbid Anatomy)

liquidnight:

Afternoon skull examination at the Swiss Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln

[From the Klosterarchiv Einsiedeln*]

Switzerland - Bashing Protestant skulls since 1291

Oh, and could it be… maybe… TREPANATION HOUR already? No? You sure? Pardon me… o_O

* Einsiedeln is a fascinating place. Surrounded by moors that are haunted by dead soldiers. The average age of its population is so high, probably around 135 years old, you’re not even sure people are alive anymore. Go see the Black Madonna in case you ever get stranded there.

liquidnight:

Louis A. Sayre, MD, with a Woman in a Suspension Device for Treating Scoliosis, London, 1877, photographer unknown

From A Morning’s Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive & Collection, 1843-1939

foxesinbreeches:

Govard Bidloo & Gérard de Lairesse - Ontleding des menschelyken lichaams. Amsterdam, 1960. Copperplate engraving with etching. National Library of Medicine. Via Dream Anatomy: A National Library of Medical Exhibit.

This stark dissection—with ragged flesh fully displayed and hands bound with a cord—signals a commitment to a higher level of realism. To our eyes, the picture may suggest a distressing indifference to, or even pleasure in, human suffering.

… and now back to our noble species: Collotype after photographs by E. Muybridge (Wellcome Library no.27769i)

thousandflowerettes:

(via blackmedic)

nitescence:

fingertip vision test at queens college; ralph morse, 1964.

Perfect Hand of the Day LIV

thousandflowerettes:

From the James Moores Ball Ophthalmology collection. (via otisarchives1)

Perfect Eyes of the Day XXVII