Vernacular Literature Meets Anatomy

The New York Academy of Medicine has compiled some interesting blog posts, including one on a compilation of anatomical limericks and one children's book teaching morals through sickness.

Ways to show skin on Halloween: Dress like a skeleton?

Apparently adding flesh to skeletons makes them sexy:

Problems with the 1950s: Women douched with Lysol

It was also understood as a form of birth control in some areas, but the lines are blurry since, you know, nobody talked about it. But you can tell the companies are trying to pursue an unhealthy fear of women's own bodies, that apparently have smells so strong as to act as a forcefield against their husbands:







Oh, and Listerine was introduced as a less abrasive alternative...