Teddy Has An Operation

If there is an error, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AdYaTa_lOf4

Satirical Archaeology

When I was in maybe middle school, I was introduced to the story of the Nacirema. It was narrated by future archaeologists or anthropologists trying to determine the function of 20th-century objects found in North America.

"The daily body ritual performed by everyone includes a mouth-rite. Despite the fact that these people are so punctilious about care of the mouth, this rite involves a practice which strikes the uninitiated stranger as revolting. It was reported to me that the ritual consists of inserting a small bundle of hog hairs into the mouth, along with certain magical powders, and then moving the bundle in a highly formalized series of gestures.In addition to the private mouth-rite, the people seek out a holy-mouth-man once or twice a year."
--From Horace Mitchell Miner, "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema," American Anthropologist 58 (June 1956): 503-50.

This, of course, is a dentist.



As a famous archaeologist once wrote:

 "It is a sobering reflection that...the Crucifixion would be merely three large post-holes."

--Philip Barker, Techniques of Archaeological Excavation (Routledge, 2003): 172.



As a bonus, here is a review of Alien Phenomenology or What It's Like to Be a Thing.

The Natural History Museum, DC

Five Films to Avoid During Surgery from The Guardian

strasbourg astronomical clock

From Seeing Her Sex: Medical Archives and the Female Body by Roberta McGrath

And more!: http://thesciencebookstore.com/tag/medical-illustration/

German Calligraphy

From The Public Domain Review

Picturing Science: Sharing Knowledge, Selling Ideas from The Guardian

Not for the Pious

Easily the least appropriate post on Ugly Renaissance Babies

Museum of Copulatory Organs

See more HERE

Nature's Diapers

from Slate:

Moss Undies, Urine Tubes, and Other Folk Diapers

Curl Up with a Rare Book

Great blog post from the University of Nebraska Medical Center that also has some great images:

An online Cabinet of Curiosities on Pinterest

The Altarpiece at its least Peaceful

Otto Dix's War Altarpiece or Triptychon Der Krieg (1929-1932):

Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altarpiece (1512-1516):

The Isenheim Altarpiece was made for a "hospital" or really more like a hospice for folks suffering from St. Anthony's Fire or ergotism. 

Thanks for the inspiration Mr. Hotdog

Daily Dose of Creepiness

Freya Jobbins' doll-part body sculptures

A History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents

Penisology and why it's important

Why I Study Duck Genitalia on Slate

And for more on the subject:

True Facts about the Duck

Green Porno: Duck