Vintage Braces
Syphilitic skull. Tertiary syphilis, untreated for almost 27
Benjamin Rush, father of American Psychiatry, believed that mental
Trichobezoar - hairball in the shape of a stomach removed from
“Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva is a disease where
Polydactyl - 8 toes
Cephalotribe; obstetric tool, Geneva, Switzerland, 1750-1850
Genetics.
Oversized hands and arms, caused by a hormone imbalance.
From the MutterMuseum - the deformed ribcage of a woman who wore
Apothecary Jar - Dragon’s Blood, circa 1900. Clear glass
Frontal Lobotomy: It involved…Brain slicing! Essentially, it
(Blue People of Kentucky) Fugates: The genetic form of methemoglobinemia
Brain Salt
Nick Hilton watched in horror as his wife Jamie stepped backward
The skull of a young boy with a second imperfect skull attached
Quinine-Whiskey
circa 1675 Illustration of a woman having a breast operation,
Zahra Aboutalib, Morocco, carried her child in her womb for almost
Bleeding dish, 18th c. When blood was taken from patients in
autopsy
A Gibson Girl in her corset in the early 1900s. Those poor women!
Photo diary of plastic surgery
Madame Dimanche, also known as Widow Sunday, was a French woman
This rare bizarre condition is called Anencephaly Syndrome. The
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1 head 2 body fish - do they live near a power plant?
The ‘Bagelhead’ is currently the hottest body modification
Betty Lou Williams (1932-1955), the youngest of 12 children,
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, by Walter L. Pyle
In 1961, Leonid Rogozov, 27, was the only surgeon in the Soviet
In some parts of the world ants are used to close up wounds!
Nurse Preparing for electro-convulsive therapy, 1951
Examples of the some of the various deformations of the fetus
Two artificial noses, 17th-18th century
Mercurochrome…prevent infection! Too bad this and so many