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“Coffin broadside printed to discredit presidential candidate, Andrew Jackson, who had approved the execution of mutinous militiaman, David Morrow, in 1815.” Printed in July 1828.
00:33 UTC
"Conditions aboard the Battleship Matsushima during the Battle of the Yellow Sea." Colored woodblock print by Kobayashi Teikō, 1896.
20:08 UTC
“People visiting the morgue in Paris to view the cadavers. Coloured aquatint by R.B. Peake, 1816.”
01:15 UTC
Photograph of a young girl taken just after the deadly explosion in Beirut 4 years ago. The photographer, Rodriguez Najarian, captioned it "between blood, tears, and a lost smile"
14:34 UTC
“The Receiving Room: The 42nd Stationary Hospital.” WWI watercolor painting by William Orpen, 1917.
00:08 UTC
Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, c.1892 was the first medical school that allowed women to attend. Here are some students in the dissection room
17:01 UTC
Real human face and skull disarticulated and hung on wire (from the Body Worlds exhibit)
15:59 UTC
Model depicting the beginning of the Chinese execution method of Lingchi, also known as death by a thousand cuts. It was possibly made for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.
01:27 UTC
X-ray showing shrapnel lodged in a leg probably of a wounded Allied soldier, c. 1915.
19:47 UTC
“The late events in Paris: A woman shot at the Louvre for spreading petroleum.” Wood engraving of a scene from the Paris Commune published in June 1871.
23:34 UTC
A case of amputation instruments including saws and knives, European, c. 1750-1800.
21:17 UTC
Cadaver fingerprinting. Sometimes because of the decay of underlying tissue, the best way for a doctor or mortician to obtain prints is to deglove the corpse's finger skin and wear it on their own hands while they take the impression.
18:14 UTC
Palestinian woman Inas Abu Maamar, 36, embraces the body of her 5-year-old niece Saly, who was killed in an Israeli strike, at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, October 17, 2023. Photographer: Mohammed Salem
Keep discussion civil. I rarely lock post comments but if anyone starts throwing slurs around I will.
P.s. if you'dike to help victims in Gaza consider donating to Medecins Sans Frontiers (doctors without borders). They also help people in Ukraine, Bangladesh, and other parts of the world stricken by poverty and/or war. https://www.msf.org/palestine
07:38 UTC
The dissecting room, Cambridge Department of Anatomy, 1888
07:20 UTC
“Section of braided rope, believed to be a part of the rope which was used to hang Dr. Walter H. Maxwell, who was incarcerated in the St. Louis City Jail for murdering C. Arthur Preller at the Southern Hotel in St. Louis in 1885.”
23:02 UTC
Partial English translation (from a 1929 exhibit) of a food menu created by an eatery during the Siege of Paris, c. 1870-1871.
18:42 UTC
"The body of a German soldier and bodies of horses on the battlefield during the British advance. In the background is a wrecked ammunition supply cart. Le Quesnoy, 27 October 1918." Taken by John Warwick Brooke.
18:04 UTC
“The foot of a 43 year-old, 4ft. 8 in., Chinese woman, showing the effect of foot binding with the broken (high) arch, under wrapped toes and cone shape heel.” By Edward Pigott Minett, c. 1920s.
22:45 UTC
“Female munitions workers walk beside the horsedrawn hearse of one of their colleagues who had been killed at work, August Bank Holiday 1917. They are wearing their factory uniforms as a sign of respect during the funeral procession through Swansea.“
02:00 UTC
"An x-ray technician's hand, mutilated with dermatitis, after habitual work with x-ray apparatus at the Royal London Hospital. Photograph, ca. 1900."
04:45 UTC
"A skeletal cadaver with two flaps of skin of the abdomen cut away to reveal the subcutaneous layer of muscle and fat, labelled 'mirac'. Colour process print, 1926, after a manuscript illustration, 1345."
00:42 UTC
Cockpit voice recorder audio of the last minutes of Braniff Flight 352 shortly before it crashed in Texas killing 85 people on May 3, 1968.
20:40 UTC
"No Substitution." The January/February page from the Antikamnia pharmaceutical company's calendar from 1900. Lithograph by Louis Crusius.
02:20 UTC