#medtext asks

[sirsparklepants]

ask meme: 1922, page 305

You have found my Reprints from the Department of Experimental Surgery book, which I dearly love. It, uh, does not have properly numbered pages, because it's literally reprints from journals kind of stitched together, so we're just going to open the book towards the end and see what shows up.

...ooh, you get PLATES!

[sirsparklepants]

medtext ask: 1887, 69 B)

Even after a complete natural abortion, sewer gas was a potential cause of septicemia in Victorian England, and was often acute and severe in such cases.

[sirsparklepants]

I was inspired by another blog's ask game and I want to crack open my old medical texts more, so! Send me an ask with the year published and a page number between 1-800 (i have too many huge textbooks) and I'll give you either a fact or a cool illustration from that page. (This is a good time to remind my followers that when I post gore, medical or otherwise, I DO NOT TAG IT. I will be tagging these asks as "medtext asks" if you want to avoid them entirely.) If the book doesn't have that page number I'll skip backwards by hundreds until it does.

From the bottom up: 1981, 1931, 1922, 1887, 1901, 1981-A, 1916. (Note that the Victorian book on abortion is about miscarriage, not the medical procedure.)