the man from beyond

Antique dissected and articulated child skull showing the permanent and temporary teeth from #Tramond à Paris. Note the dual labeling (handwritten signature + original paper label). Personal collection #cabinetofcuriosities #oddities #tramond #osteology #humanskull #childskull #teeth #dissected #humanbones

Details of a forehead tattooed Eskimo female mummy. The tattoo was created by soot-stained or dyed thread drawn under the skin by a needle.

One of the naturally mummified screaming Mummies of Guanajuato, placed in graves during an outbreak of cholera in 1833. Although its believed that some of the sick and dying may have been buried alive, in death the jaw naturally hangs open unless strapped or wired shut, neglecting to do so can result in a silent scream as seen above.

Fig. 127. French method of opening the skull. Post-mortem pathology. 1905.

Anatomical wax referred to by some as “The Slashed Beauty,” from the workshop of Clemente Susini as seen at La Specola, Florence, Italy.

smallpox as illustrated by a photograph in a practical treatise on diseases of the skin, for the use of students and practitioners, 1909. 

“Base and interior of brain, with origins of nerves and blood vessels.” The champion text book on embalming. 1897.

Allegory of Death (ca. 1515-1527) - Marco Dente

Guang-Yang

Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto

Beth Haim cemetery in the Netherlands

Plate 50. Staphaloraphy. _Illustrated manual of operative surgery and surgical anatomy_ 1855.

“Only about 1/13 of a person’s weight is blood.” Health habits. 1921.

Illustration to Cicero’s Officia (1531).