Handling and care of the patient (1944) Pt. 1 of 2 (via WellcomeFilm)
2 years agoPosts tagged "wellcome"
November 30, 2010
November 16, 2010
“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.
2 years ago
November 1, 2010
October 19, 2010
I thought I had posted this back in June but it seems I was wrong. This video was featured in the laziest exhibition at the Wellcome to date, entitled SKIN which was totally not worth seeing as all the good objects were really just carried down from Medicine Man upstairs. OUTRAGE. :)
2 years ago
September 1, 2010
I’m not sure it’s the sluggish speed of this Ministry of Health film from 1947 or my bad posture, but I’ve never felt so narcoleptic after watching a video.
Also featuring:
- A bus on drugs!
- City impressions from a post-apocalyptic age!
- A woman without eyes!
- Extensive up-skirt footage of an underage girl!
Nice one, WellcomeFilm.
2 years ago
March 29, 2010
“This film highlights the principles of good posture, both standing and sitting, and the effect of posture on physique.” (The Wellcome Collection)
I actually have elaborate soundtracks to all these medical Wellcome films in my head and will soon release a very homoerotic concept album. Oh, yes
3 years ago
January 12, 2010
Here’s the game: Grab the book nearest you right now. • Turn to page 56. • Find the fifth sentence. • Reblog with that sentence. • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book. DO IT!!
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“Also present was a nurse with the head of a great brown rat.”
-The Dark Tower, Stephen King.
“Another fact which strongly suggests that it was an artificial phallus is that the women did not become pregnant by the Devil except by special agreement.”
A Handbook on Witches, Gillian Tindall“Body is essentially extended into space, non-thinking, and governed by the laws of motion.”
Descartes’ Mind-Body Problem, 30 Second Philosophies by Barry Loewer
“Now carefully turn the face inside out and scrape off the fatty tissue.”
- The Phantom Museum (and Henry Wellcome’s Collection of Medical Curiosities), ed. Hildi Hawkins and Danielle Olsen, Profile Books LTD in Association with The Wellcome Trust, London, 2003
3 years ago
January 2, 2010
… and now back to our noble species: Collotype after photographs by E. Muybridge (Wellcome Library no.27769i)
3 years ago
December 1, 2009
November 25, 2009
MAKE SURE YOUR CHILD IS DONE!
“Diphtheria” - another gorgeous girl’s name (Wellcome Film)
3 years ago
November 23, 2009
YAY, A GIANT HEART! (at the Mori Art Museum, Japan, via the Wellcome Library)
3 years ago
November 20, 2009
Perfect (.. and dramaturgically well placed) Scar of the Day V: Postoperative Dressings, 1934 (WellcomeFilm)
Elastoplast rocks!
3 years ago
November 17, 2009
Perfect Eyes of the Day XIX: The Eyes Have It (WellcomeFilm)
3 years ago
November 2, 2009
One minute sixteen seconds in, we can clearly see a shot yet still highly volatile enemy war robot and NOT patient Pudmore performing a “hysterical (sic!) shuffling gait”, messieurs scientists from the R.A.M.C. Neurology Department! Observing is your duty, not misinformation!
3 years agoI see! Maybe those lazy drunken bums down the road are actually shell-shocked WWI survivors who need all my gentle loving attention and care!?
*grabs the giant copper syringe, puts nurse uniform on and rushes out the door*
3 years ago