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Amongst a collection of medical oddities housed at the Surgeons’ Hall Museum in Edinburgh lies a tattered pocketbook. It is dark brown—nearly black—with a pebbled texture and gold lettering that has begun to fade with age. Upon closer inspection,
Photo of baby born via cesarean in the caul (a peek of life inside the womb)
Lividity, or livor mortis, represents the postmortem settling of blood within the dependent skin, due to gravitational forces. Note that areas of skin exposed to pressure do not develop lividity.
Frederik Ruysch and Cornelis Huyberts - Infant with hydrocephalus, from Thesaurus anatomicus, 1701
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The plague doctor’s costume was the clothing worn by a plague doctor to protect him from airborne diseases. The costume consisted of an ankle length overcoat and a bird-like beak mask often filled with sweet or strong smelling substances (commonly
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One of a set of French gelatin silver prints showing an autopsy at the Institut Médico-Légal on the Quai de la Rapée, Paris, in March 1924. wow, they arent even using gloves.
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A 54 year old woman was surgically intervened at Hospital Gandulfo in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina, where a gynecological surgical team extracted a 23 kg tumor from her uterus. The weight of the tumor is comparable to the weight of a 4 year old child.
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Extreme rotatory curvature of the spine, from Joseph Coats’s A Manual of Pathology, 1900
Kynstkamera. St. Petersburg, Russia. “It is said that this Museum of Medical Oddities was started by Peter the Great in 1714 in an effort to bring Russia out of the dark ages of superstition”
Believe it or not, this is an enterolith, or a pearl like structure removed from the intestine of a horse.
Amputated hand re-attached to the patient’s right side for nerve regeneration and proper blood flow.
The latest science suggests that old-timey Europe’s “humane” method of execution, decapitation, is a sham — heads seem remain alive for up to a minute after being disconnected from the lower portions. And theoretically they could survive if quickly
Medical bone saws
Electric flesh brush
It’s Dede: The “Tree Man” Dede, aka “Tree Man“, is an Indonesian fisherman who has been slowly changing from a human into a tree… or at least that is what it appears. After cutting his knee as a teenager, Dede began to grow tree like warts
Conjoined fetal pigs
“I have dermatographia, a condition in which one’s immune system releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when the hypersensitive skin’s surface is lightly scratched.
Isolator - 1925 Invented by science fiction pioneer Hugi Gernsbeck, the “Isolator” was designed to help focus the mind when reading or writing, by rendering the wearer deaf, piping them full of oxygen, not only by eliminating all outside noise, but
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Syphilitic skull. Tertiary syphilis, untreated for almost 27 years. 1910. From National Museum of Health and Medicine.
Benjamin Rush, father of American Psychiatry, believed that mental diseases were caused by irritation of the blood vessels in the brain. His treatment methods included bleeding, purging, hot and cold baths, and mercury, and he invented a tranquilizer
Trichobezoar - hairball in the shape of a stomach removed from a 12 year-old girl after she spent 6 years eating her hair.
“Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva is a disease where the body’s repair mechanism is completely broken, and starts “healing” the fibrous tissue (muscles, tendons and ligaments) by turning them into bone. Your whole body is slowly being
Polydactyl - 8 toes
Cephalotribe; obstetric tool, Geneva, Switzerland, 1750-1850 Credits: Science Museum London. Only used as a last resort after a fetus is dead in an attempt to save the mother.
Genetics.
Oversized hands and arms, caused by a hormone imbalance.
From the MutterMuseum - the deformed ribcage of a woman who wore corsets vs a normal ribcage
Apothecary Jar - Dragon’s Blood, circa 1900. Clear glass jar containing Dragon’s Blood used in the pharmacy of a mental health hospital, Victoria, Australia, circa 1900. Dragon’s blood is a red resin prepared from fruits of climbing
Frontal Lobotomy: It involved…Brain slicing! Essentially, it involved the insertion of the “ice pick” tool through the eye socket and into the prefrontal cortex of the brain. When the pick was in the right place, the protruding end was struck with
The Mutter Museum in Philadelphia Was originally opened in the 1900s for medical students to come and see in person ;extremely rare conditions, and the effects of diseases that had been cured or eradicated. It still stands today as the best place for
(Blue People of Kentucky) Fugates: The genetic form of methemoglobinemia is caused by one of several genetic defects. The Fugates probably had a deficiency in the enzyme called cytochrome-b5 methemoglobin reductase, which is responsible for recessive
Brain Salt
Nick Hilton watched in horror as his wife Jamie stepped backward and tumbled 12 feet down into a culvert, hitting her head hard on a boulder at the bottom.Doctors told him that her brain was rapidly swelling & the only hope was to remove part of her
The skull of a young boy with a second imperfect skull attached to its anterior fontanelle. Hunterian Museum in London, England (late 1780s)
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circa 1675 Illustration of a woman having a breast operation, accompanied by a close up of the surgical instruments used. From a compendium of popular medicine and surgery, receipts, etc., in German. Compiled for the use of a House of the Franciscan Order
Zahra Aboutalib, Morocco, carried her child in her womb for almost half a century. Lithopedion, calcified fetus.
Bleeding dish, 18th c. When blood was taken from patients in the 18th century, it was usually drained into small bowls with a single handle, known as porringers. These bowls were chiefly used for soft foods like soup and porridge, but those made specifica
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A Gibson Girl in her corset in the early 1900s. Those poor women!
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Madame Dimanche, also known as Widow Sunday, was a French woman living in Paris in the early 19th century. At the age of 76 she began to grown a 24.9cm horn from her forehead before it was successfully removed by a French surgeon. A wax model of her head
“WORM” removed from woman’s eye. “Anterior Orbital Myiasis caused by Human Botfly,” published in the July 2000 number of the Archives of Ophthalmology, a journal of the American Medical Association.
“Edward Mordrake was a 19th century English nobleman who had an extra face on the back of his head. According to the story, the extra face could neither eat nor speak, but it could laugh and cry. Edward begged doctors to have his ‘devil twin’
The Mütter Museum, a collection of medical oddities, anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment.
Man with no face and rare disease in Kashmir
On April 26, 1986 a giant nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. This is an image of the continuing effects of the nuclear fallout taken by Paul Fusco. The child is from Belarus, also deeply affected by the meltdown
In 2007,Car crash victim Shannon Malloy was made a living medical history when a crash caused her head to smash into the dashboard & itself from her spine known as internal decapitation. Malloy’s spinal cord remained intact, which allowed screws
Zoar Valley is a small area near Gowanda, New York. Its history has long been associated with tales of the strange and bizarre. Perhaps the strangest tale of all to come out of Zoar Valley is that of the Clawfoot People. In the late 19th and early 20th
Macabre collections #7—Medical Oddities—Peter the Great’s “Kunstkammer” is the result of 15 years of collecting the oddities and the rarities of Russia and the world, before making it available to the public in 1719. Animals with two
No one knew what was bothering 7-month-old Mya Whittington. Her discomfort stumped her parents and doctors. She was finally hospitalized - and a 2-inch feather eventually poked its way out of her neck, shocking everyone. “We were just pretty much
“Soapman,” circa 1800s A new type of mummy was found in the late 19th century… in Philadelphia. The unexpected find was unearthed by accident during a construction project in 1875. There are different accounts as to why the remains were being
Medical Oddities, Nature’s Anomalies and Carnival Gaffs: A Pop Up Book for Children by crowolf. Just wow.
welcometothe1jungle: Tattooed human skin, part of a medical oddity collection held at The Medical Pathology Museum of Tokyo University.
fatalitum: The Mütter MuseumThis medical is museum located in the Center City area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It contains a collection of medical oddities, anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment. The museum
