From Creepypasta

Birth Girdle

"Were they damaged during repeated use in the events surrounding labour and delivery, when the roll, according to its instructions, was laid over the womb of the woman to ease the delivery?"

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....it just means they're wearing pants.

From Public Domain Review

more HERE

From HERE

IT'S DECORATIVE GOURD SEASON, MOTHERFUCKERS

And if you get too excited, here's a thing you can do

When Crocheting Gets Creepy

more HERE

Und mehr: HIER

See more in the series Sleep of the Beloved by Paul Schneggenburger

Listen to something beautiful and name the anatomists!

From HERE

From The Guardian

How Babies Are Made

The best/worst book you can buy on the subject

Article by Jason Silverstein

Coming soon in Playboy

Review forthcoming!

The Art of Natural History Dioramas

Sally: How do they get all these animals?
 Glen: Teddy Roosevelt killed them.
 Sally: Do you think they were a family?
 Glen: I hope so. Otherwise, they’d be walking around saying, “We just need a baby to finish this diorama.”

From The Atlantic

Objects of Life, in Death

New article on death masks from The Atlantic

Modern Dissections and Different Ethics

The Danes have been making headlines with their public dissections of animals--one giraffe and one lion, as well as others.

Like public anatomies of the past, it is considered educational. Today, there are more issues at hand--animal rights, understanding food, the innocence of children, etc. etc. Nonetheless, the zoo has made statements on each of these topics. An interesting topic, no matter where you stand.

Charité/Medizinhistorisches Museum, Berlin

Ruins of the old anatomical theater at the Berlin Medizinhistorisches Museum

Giant wooden skull

Moving simulation of how large bodies (such as that of a horse) were lifted into the tieranatomisches theater

Fingernails

Tieranatomisches Theater

Giant wooden brain with cross-sections

"injected face skin"

Wenzel Jamnitzer and trippy renaissance geometrics

These are from 1568:

More on Hyperallergic

World's Scariest Contraceptive Devices
via All That Is Interesting

THE EARLIEST EXAMPLE OF DECAPITATION AND WHY ARCHAEOLOGISTS SHOULD LEARN TO DRAW

You had me at Marzipan Skeleton

The edible skeleton of Daniel Sperry

courtesy of Hyperallergic

And something a little MORE REALISTIC