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In the catacombs beneath the Capuchin monastery of Palermo, Sicily, fully clothed cadavers may be found propped upright or hanging from the walls. These are friars, priests, and other clergymen.
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Dr Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne avec Adrien Tournachon - Tiré de Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou analyse électrophysiologique de l’expression des passions (publié en 1862) (1852-1856)
The Grand Hermetic Androgyne trampling underfoot the four elements of the prima materia - From the Codex Germanicus 598 (Plate 34) From E.J. Holmyard’s Alchemy, 1957
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Shaman's Drum Symbols in Scandanavia: "Every Finnish old drum had picture about world with three layers: The Upper world (Ylinen), the realm of gods and light spirits The Middle World (Keskinen), spirit side of this mundane world The Lower World (Alinen), realm of power animals, ancestral spirits, gods of the dead people." from www.thuleia.com/...
About Sami Symbols ("Cross of the Sun"). www.arrankrukmake...
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Hesse Heneger Chernobyl Series Illustrations: Henneger documented the effects of radiation on the health of insects, completing beautiful hand drawn pictures of mutations.
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Sheep's heart, stuck with nails and pins, said to have been used to break a spell cast by a witch over a farmer’s cattle
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Amanita muscaria. Worthington George Smith (1835 - 1917) Watercolour on paper, 1865
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Memorial card "in loving memory of our dear shipmate Leonard Hill" who drowned off Usukan Point, Borneo, 1909.
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Memorial Card. "In Life How Fair. The End How Beautiful."
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Eye idols - from Eye Temple, Tell Brak (Syria) - 4th millennium BCE
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Late eighteenth century, Department of Natural Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen, The lens at the front and a screen at the rear display the upside-down image as it appears on the retina of a real eye.
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medicine chest, Vincenzo Giustiniani, the last Genoese governor of the Island of Chios in the eastern Aegean Sea, in the 1560s. On a box from the middle drawer is painted the symbol of Chios - a black eagle above a three-towered castle. The chest contains 126 drug bottles/pots.
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ferns... silver... peter lippmann for cartier art magazine.
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"Surgery" Worrydoll, Mixed Media, Renée Laferriere Cinderhouse, 2011
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Plague doctors - They were second rate, under-trained physicians. Many were not doctors at all, but people of other employments paid by towns. Plague doctor images that we are familiar with was not seen until the 1600s when the “traditional” plague doctor costume was created: heavy fabric cloak covered in wax to protect the doctor’s body & a mask to keep out the sick air. Masks had a long cone shape at the nose filled with scents to protect the doctor from bad air.
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Zombie cage or mortsafe...Urban legend: this is a grave from the Victorian age when a fear of zombies and vampires was prevalent. The cage was intended to trap the undead just in case the corpse reanimated. ~~~ Actually: a mortsafe. A device invented to deter grave robbers that were paid by anatomists, who had no legal way to procure cadavers, to find corpses for them to dissect.
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Specimen jar containing piece of William Burke’s brain, United Kingdom, 1821-1870 “Sealed in this small glass specimen jar is said to be a piece of the brain of William Burke (1792-1829). He was one half of the infamous Edinburgh body snatchers known as Burke and Hare. Burke was executed in 1829 and museum records state it was, “presented by the doctor who used Burke’s body for anatomical purposes, in a sealed glass tube 3” long”. Burke and his accomplic...
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EcoSphere - self-contained and self-sustaining miniature world encased in glass. (via Cabinet of Curiosities)
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Neonothopanus gardenieri, a bioluminescent mushroom, has recently been spotted in the forests of Brazil by San Francisco State University researchers. It was last seen in 1840.
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skull with magic quader 16/17th century Sator Opera Tenet
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Frances Ong WOW
Storm Crowe I know. There are some old examples of anatomical dolls on pinterest. They are all fascinating. nice to see you on here, Fran! Xox