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“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
This rare bizarre condition is called Anencephaly Syndrome. The baby was born without brain, neck and reproductive organs. The first image was born in Luxor General Hospital in Al Akhbar, the baby died after 2 hours. These deformed babies do not have
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“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.
1 head 2 body fish - do they live near a power plant?
The ‘Bagelhead’ is currently the hottest body modification in Japan,“injecting saline solution into the forehead to create a temporary bagel-like shape". The saline solution is injected for two hours and the ‘bagel/donut-head’ look is created
“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’
Betty Lou Williams (1932-1955), the youngest of 12 children, was born with a parasitic twin and had 4 legs and 3 arms. She entered the sideshows at age 2 and made enough money to send all 11 of her siblings to college. The pretty and curvaceous Betty
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by Walter L. Pyle and George M. Gould, 1896.
In 1961, Leonid Rogozov, 27, was the only surgeon in the Soviet Antarctic Expedition. During the expedition, he felt severe pain in the stomach and had a high fever. Rogozov examined himself and discovered that his appendix was inflamed and could burst
In some parts of the world ants are used to close up wounds! In both Africa and South America, large army ants are used as surgical sutures. The wound is pulled together, and the ant grabs the edges of the wound with its mandible. Then, the body is cut
Nurse Preparing for electro-convulsive therapy, 1951
Examples of the some of the various deformations of the fetus known to cause dystocia
Two artificial noses, 17th-18th century
Mercurochrome…prevent infection! Too bad this and so many other treatments were never tested. FDA pulled this topical after linking it to mercury poisoning!
Hernia Tool (1850s) This unique tool was used after the restoration of a hernia. It was inserted into the body near the affected area and left there for a week to produce scar tissue that would help seal off the hernia.
Ben Underwood (1992-2009) lost his eyes to retinal cancer at the age of 3. He developed a type of echolocation allowing him to “see” by using his tongue to produce clicks and listening for the echoes as they bounced off objects. In this way
Ozena: Tuberculosis of the Nose, Circa 1870.The dreaded infection ‘Ozena’ was an ailment of much prominence in the pre-antibiotic era because it accompanied many infectious diseases of the nose. The infection of the nasal cavities resulted in a foul
Lightning tattoos or Lichtenberg figures, which are burns as the result of being struck by lightning. Trees can also have similar patterns after being struck.
Want to know what was in this amazing syrup? Well, one grain (65 mg) of morphine per fluid ounce, cannabis, heroin, powdered opium which are the active ingredients to put your little one to sleep. It also had sodium carbonate, spirits foeniculi, and aqua
Collapsed nose resulting from cocaine addiction
A triphalangeal thumb (TPT) is a congenital malformation where the thumb has three phalanges instead of two.
Branchial cleft cyst
A woman who was once addicted to growing the nails on her hands has now grown her toenails to a staggering four inches.
Awakening from Keto-acidosis: The scientists went to a hospital ward with diabetic children, comatose and dying from diabetic keto-acidosis. This is known as one of medicine’s most incredible moments. The scientists went from bed-to-bed and injected
deformed child skeleton
Persistent pupillary membrane (PPM) is a condition of the eye involving remnants of a fetal membrane that persist as strands of tissue crossing the pupil.
Akhenaton (Amenhotep IV) was an Egyptian pharaoh who ruled from 1367 BCE to 1350 BCE. This statue shows one of his daughters with an elongated skull. It is thought that both the pharaoh and his daughters had this condition. Henry Wellcome did his utmost
Severe frostbite
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From a psychiatric hospital in St. Joe, Missouri. These items were taken from a patient’s stomach.
Girl with parasitic twin.
“Maggot debridement therapy” involves placing disinfected maggots on open wounds. Maggots efficiently eat up all necrotic tissue present, leaving alone live healthy tissue. They also disinfect the wound by killing any harmful bacteria present.
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
Supernumerary thumb, from Edward M. Foote’s A text-book of minor surgery, 1909
The Boomschmidt Circus giant and his legless wife
This little piggy… WTF!
Human egg emerging from the ovary
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
