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the-alchemy-of-grief:

I’m gonna pause from my replies for a minute to show you my new necklace. Pretty in more than one way, yes?

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The Chirurgeon's Apprentice: The Two-Headed Boy of Bengal →

theossuary:

This post from the Dissection Room over on The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice (an entire blog devoted to “the horrors of pre-anaesthetic surgery”!) is about a condition known as craniopagus parasiticus and the case of an 18th-century Bengali boy:

The normal face and head were not malformed. The brains were distinct, each invested in its own membranes; the dura mater of each adhered to that of the other at the point of contact. The chief supply of blood to the upper head was by a number of vessels passing from the membranes of one brain to that of the other. The movements of the features of the upper head appear to have been purely reflex, and by no means to have been controlled by the feelings or desires of the child. The movements of the eyes of the accessory head did not correspond with those of the child, and the eyelids were usually open, even during sleep.

His skull(s) now reside(s) at the Royal College of Surgeons in London.

louisville365:

March 10, 2012

Plaster casts of skeletons from Herculaneum, another small city destroyed by Vesuvius.

skullandbone:

Crâne de Corneille noire / Carrion Crow Skull (Corvus corone) by JC-Osteo on Flickr.

centuriespast:

Tu fui ego eris (What you are, I was; what I am, you will be)

After Johann Georg Dieffenbrunner 
Print made by Johann Jakob Ridinger 
1760-1784

The British Museum

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professorquack:

Phrenological skull. Anonymous (19th century). Photograph by Eszter Blahak/Semmelweis Museum.

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othernotebooksareavailable:

Memento Mori, memento Scottish preoccupation with death: Skeleton in Greyfriar’s Kirkyard, Edinburgh.

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ch1cago:

dama dama by La Fille Renne on Flickr.

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