Sutured Infection

An appreciative and varied trove of things historical, medical, and unusual.

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The Body as Army and Navy, Our Wonder World, 1921

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The Anatomy of the Human Head and Neck graphically illustrated by means of superimposed plates with descriptive text by Dr Schmidt English Edition by William S Furneaux 

London George Philip & Son - Date is not indicated but publisher is George Philip & Son and so date is pre-incorporation in 1897.  [Estimated at 1895 by the British Library]

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Illustration for a French pharmaceutical article about sleep and the environment, ca. 1900, artist unknown

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Anti-freckles treatment with the use of carbon dioxide (c. 1930s)

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Instruments used to carry out incisions.

Jean-Baptiste Léveillé, from Précis iconographique de médecine opératoire (A text book of operative surgery), by Claude Bernard & Charles Huette, Paris, 1848.

(Source: archive.org)

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[glitterandghouls]

Prosthetics from the 1800s to the 1930s

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Fig. 82. Anomalies of refraction and of the muscles of the eye.1900.

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From Dr. Foote's Home Cyclopedia of Popular Medical, Social & Sexual Science, 1900

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A child resting in the women’s corridor.  The amazing preservation of this case is due to a specific embalming process, of which the details are still unknown.  Note the use of artificial eyes.

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Mummy from the Palermo Catacombs.  From Mummies of the World.

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Nicolas-Henri Jacob (French, 1782–1871) - Drawing in Traité Complet De L’anatomie De L’homme by Marc-Jean Bourgery, 1839

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H. Walter - Intervention chirurgicale, 1910.

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masked man-?

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J. Cosmas Vintage Photography

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An illustration of conjoined twins, born in 1678 in the Alsace region of modern-day France.

(National Library of France)

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Bike Boy by jack_mord on Flickr.

Legless young man on a custom hand-pedaled velocipede. Cabinet card, c.1885.

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This is a picture of a Goldschmidt toad that has a mutation that caused its eyes to grow inward into its mouth. Therefore,it needs to open its mouth to see. It was found in a garden in Canada.