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A Body Struck by Lightning Lichtenberg figures (aka “lightning flowers”) appear on the skin of lightning strike victims. These are reddish, fern-like patterns that may persist for hours or days. They are also a useful indicator for medical examiners when determining the cause of death. Lichtenberg figures appearing on people are sometimes called lightning flowers, and they are thought to be caused by the rupture of small capillaries under the skin due to the passage of the lightning current or the shock wave from the lightning discharge as it flashes over the skin.
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This is Billy Lodgeson, a man now famous for duping the country with him and his brothers’ fake circus acts. In this case, they would switch around the fake twin and claim it was a woman (who of course who had her face covered out of “shame”) called Margurete Clarke.This picture remains one of the most famous photos of a gaffed parasitic twin. Although it looks obviously fake today, the act tricked hundreds of people in the mid nineteenth century.  
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A vintage autopsy, showing a the classic y-incision. 
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Hand deformity with fingers webbed together. Doctors believe this ‘frog hand’ deformity, could be a result of the parent’s both working in factories around chemical adhesives.
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Known as the ‘thalidomide catastrophe’, the newly invented thalidomide drug wrecked havoc throughout the 1950’s. Prescribed to many women as a cure for morning sickness, the drug’s effects on the fetus had never been studied. Although thalidomide was never officially licensed in the United States, many doctors received thousands of samples as part of a clinical trial. One third of women on this drug during their first trimester from the United States gave birth to babies with limb deformities as seen above. The catastrophe prompted the strict regulation of drugs given to pregnant women. On August 31st, 2012, the head of the company who created the drug officially apologized and acknowledged responsibility for the deformities. It is estimated that at the time of his apology (generally considered to be “too little, too late” by victim advocacy groups) around 5,000 persons affected by the drug were still alive. 
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Elephantiasis of the leg of a young man, date unknown. 
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A suicide by beheading via a train accident in Baltimore. The deceased was likely a patient at a nearby psychiatric hospital. Picture credit to officer Tony Pentralia. 
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Facial sloughing as a result of syphilis, pre penicillin era. Sloughing refers to dead tissue quite literally sliding off.
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Vintage Illustration of Arm Amputation
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Philippe Verheyen Dissecting His Amputated Limb, ca. 1715 By an anonymous artist, ca. 1715. Postmortem painting in honor of a famous Dutch anatomist and surgeon.
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Ancient Greek Medical Instruments Greek medical practitioners were unique amongst the ancient world in that many weren’t first and foremost priests, instead they were philosophers and learned men who were also knowledgeable about the various gods and their powers. It was during the Greek era that many of the medical terms in use today were first coined to describe types of diseases and illnesses, and the types of remedy required, and it was in this time that anatomy was most progressed thru dissection of human bodies.
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Apothecary
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Vintage Medical Cabinets with Anatomical Charts
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Fragonard Musuem - Preserved Bodies and Body Parts

Honoré Fragonard (1732—1799) — created thousands of magnificent anatomical specimens. Aimed at elucidating the new science of comparative anatomy, the Écorchés satisfied as well a passion among France’s privileged society enthralled by the Enlightenment to possess their own cabinets des curieux, as Fragonard called them, evidence of their cultivation in the age of spectacular new scientific advances and philosophical ideas.

Like today’s plastinated descendants of the centuries-old tradition and technique of injection, Fragonard’s intriguing Écorchés were intended to offer a lasting insight into the interior complexities of the body. They were among the first momentous contributions to the great anatomical teaching collections of the eighteenth century and belong to a realm between art and science.

(via odditiesoflife)

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