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Believe it or not, a professor in the history of medicine designed this.

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Happy Valentine’s Day from William Harvey

I stole this from Twitter

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There are other types of bacon to be obsessed with.

Check out @Gurdur's Tweet:

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Rodents of Unusual Size from Wood's New Illustrated Natural History (1870s)

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From Wood's New Illustrated Natural History (1874)

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Thomas Eakins - The Gross Clinic (1875) oil on canvas Something a little different today; this painting carries immense insight into the theater of the pre-aseptic surgery. Pictured, a patient undergoes treatment for osteomyelitis of the femur with a conservative approach; the days of total amputation of the limb for the same disease were not far gone. In contrast to today’s surgical setting, the theater is open to a great many students, who watch from the stands, and a woman presumed to be a member of family. The titular doctor Gross and company would not have necessarily washed their hands or instruments before performing the operation, as was common at the time. The painting represents a transitional period for surgery: the patient was anesthetized and not about to lose a leg on account of his disease, but was likely to suffer infection soon afterwards due to a lack of understanding as to the importance of clinical cleanliness.

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A selection from the most remarkable and interesting of the fishes found on the coast of Ceylon : from drawings made in the southern part of that island, from the living specimens on Flickr.