Mar 28, 2015

BUY ME THIS: RUBBER CADAVERS

SynDaver™ Labs manufactures the world's most sophisticated synthetic human tissues and body parts. Our SynDaver™ Synthetic Human bleeds, breathes, and employs hundreds of replaceable muscles, bones, organs, and vessels which are made from materials that mimic the mechanical, thermal, and physico-chemical properties of live tissue. This validated technology is used to replace live animals, cadavers, and human patients in medical device studies, clinical training, and surgical simulation.



Mar 27, 2015

PLEASE COME

A letter from schizophrenic patient Emmy Hauck to her husband. It consists of only two phrases: “Herzensschatzi komm” (darling please come) and “komm komm komm” (come, come, come ) repeated over and over.

MIRROR


Mar 25, 2015

3D


Not gonna lie...this totally scared the hell out of me when I first saw it.

MEDICAL TOUR OF THE PAST

Masks worn by doctors during the Plague.

Woman with artificial leg, circa 1890-1900.

Early plastic surgery.

Dr. Clark's Spinal Apparatus advertisement, 1878.

Lewis Sayre's scoliosis treatment.

Radiology nurse technician, France, WWII, 1918.

One of first surgical procedures to use ether as an anesthetic, circa 1855.

Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov, Soviet general practitioner,
performs an appendectomy on himself.
More.