Plaguecore

Plaguecore & Plague Doctor Aesthetic Blog. ! This blog contains untagged images and topics of medical history, death, aging, blood, medical instruments (including needles), decay, unsanitary things, sharp objects, and similar. Viewer discretion is advised. ! Run by original @PlagueDoctorMemes. I made plaguecore a thing.

[nostalgiaforinfinity]

misty and moody in the fanal forest

[wuggen]

Everyone say thank you sanitation workers we owe you our lives sanitation workers

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Hans Holbein's Dance of Death Alphabet

[rottweilerr]

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Mourning rings (17th-18th centuries)

[fallbabylon]

The bones of some 5,000 souls cling to the walls and pillars of Évora’s Bone Chapel, raised in the late 16th century by Franciscan hands. Beneath its dim arches, hollow eyes seem to watch as the inscription above the door whispers its grim welcome: “We bones that are here, await yours.”- Évora, Portugal.

[whetstonefires]

easy to miss that one of the reasons maternal mortality is diminished so extremely by modern medicine is that modern medicine makes it so much more possible to identify the pregnancies that will die and take you with them, or are otherwise unacceptably high risk. and then discontinue those ones safely, before it's too late.

thought about this because it's so frustrating when people argue that 'dying in childbirth' is a historical sort of event that doesn't happen nowadays (false) and therefore is irrelevant to the legal status of abortion, since it's not a real danger.

except it super is, and i think a lot of people haven't noticed that this argument in addition to simply being incorrect is basically the same as when people say we don't need vaccines for deadly diseases because no one gets those now anyway.

like yeah one reason for that is we vaccinate everybody ffs.

[libraflyter]

Note: after the end of Roe v Wade in the US, the maternal mortality rate (and the infant mortality rate) are showing clear increases in the states with the strictest anti-abortion laws.

Forcing people to carry high risk or non viable pregnancies to term kills.

[rosieandthemoon]

Fontainebleau State Park in Mandeville, Louisiana

[phleb0tomist]

happy pride month to disabled lgbtq+ ppl who get told “you can’t be lgbtq AND disabled”. happy pride month to ppl who experience ableism and physical exclusion from lgbtq spaces. happy pride month to ppl who can’t safely come out because they’re dependent on bigoted carers. happy pride month to ppl whose disability inhibits their gender presentation, either by affecting ur movement and mannerisms, or making it hard to wear the clothes u want or have the hair u want or bind or wear makeup, or any other way. happy pride month to ppl who get desexualised and infantilised; happy pride month to ppl who get oversexualised and fetishised. happy pride month to ppl whose condition makes it hard to have the sex life they want, either by making it physically difficult, painful, or unsafe, or by making u hypersexual or lowering ur libido or sensation. happy pride month to ppl who have gender affirming care denied because they’re “too disabled” to make their own decisions. happy pride month to ppl whose disability has made it difficult for them to explore or maintain relationships. ily all

[zylahbee]

sexism in medicine kills people. racism in medicine kills people. fatphobia in medicine kills people. queerphobia in medicine kills people. classism in medicine kills people. ableism in medicine kills people.

do not downplay people’s fears about being mistreated because they are a part of a marginalised group. it is a matter of life and death and you should be angry about it.

[francisco-goya-paintings]

-Plague Hospital-

[gouged-doll]

victorian surgical amputation saw with revolver grip

[zorja]

antique amputation saws.

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[astrodidact]

[intheheartofman]

[wonderwanda]

I reblogged this yesterday, but I want to reblog it again. Diabetic ketoacidosis turns your blood acidic and will essentially burn you from the inside out.

The stories you hear of people dying from rationing, this is what happens to their body.

Affordable insulin isn’t just a right, it’s a necessity.

No one should have to die like that when it’s preventable with access to proper medication.

[teaboot]

"Affordable" should be the lowest fucking bar. Pharmaceutical companies should be tripping over themselves to offer insulin at "affordable". That shit deserves to be fucking free

[omnia-mors-aequat-nstrwa]

Flags of the funeral procession "Memento Mori" (19th-20th centuries)

[battle-for-dyke-island]

doctors love saying “it’s just your anxiety” to mean “I don’t have to treat you” as if anxiety doesn’t need to be treated

idk if your anxiety is so bad you have tics or repeated vomiting or horrible migraines or trouble breathing or seizures or fainting spells or temporary paralysis or or or IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU SHOULD TREAT THAT FUCKING ANXIETY!!! (and if you start treating anxiety and the symptoms don’t go away it might be that the anxiety is caused by the symptoms and not the other way around. and you should treat the underlying cause)

even IF it is “just anxiety” it still needs to be treated

[the-stray-liger]

A lot of paranormal believers would actually benefit from reading about how hallucinations are much more common than you think and don't necessarily indicate that they suffer from a Scary Brain Disorder. Anyone is 2 sleepless nights away from a hallucinatory episode no matter how neurotypical they are

[the-stray-liger]

Also like hallucinations cover a broad swath of different sensory experiences, not only seeing a scary ghost. In my case my hallucinations tend to be auditory but it is also possible to feel like something touched you. Sleep paralysis hallucinations aren't paranormal happenings that's literally a type of hallucination and EVERYONE has them they're super common. Take my had. You have nothing to lose but your chains

[the-stray-liger]

And btw people who suffer hallucinations as part of a disorder aren't scary or dangerous. Neurodivergencies that include hallucinations don't make people scary psycho killers. Lose the stupid stigma already it's 2026 bitch

[theabigailthorn]

so I used to have a friend who as a paranormal investigator, and he did it for a few years and then quit because

99% of the time it was carbon monoxide poisoning

people would be like "Oh I get headaches when I go in that room, I get a crushing feeling in my chest and a sense of dread, I hear voices or think I see things," and he'd pull out a detector and be like "Yup, you have a gas leak." Auditory and visual hallucinations can accompany carbon monoxide poisoning.

the other 1% of the time it was just a really sad family problem, like it was a kid acting up because their parents moved; or someone with a really longstanding grudge trying to fuck with someone; or an old person who was deceiving themselves because they desperately wanted their lost relative to still be around.