The Morthouse

Child skeletons (National Museum of Health and Medicine) by Prof. Jas. Mundie (James G. Mundie) on Flickr.

From astropop (of Morbid Anatomy) on Flickr:

Child’s arm, holding the eye’s vascular tissue. Prepared by Bernardus Siegfried Albinus, 1730. [ … ] From the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden, the Netherlands.

A young boy studying the human skull. Nina Leen, 1948. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

sutured-infection:

Joseph Vimont and Engelman - “Skull of a Hydrocephalus Child”, from Traité de Phrénologie Humaine et Comparée, 1832

(via biomedicalephemera)

alecshao:

Gunther von Hagens, acid-corrosion cast of the arteries of the adult human hand and forearm

(Source: likeafieldmouse, via pelter)

Early Photograph of Doctors Dissecting Human Cadaver by Ballyhooligan on Flickr.

Medical anatomy skull. Source: Ballyhooligan on Flickr, who adds:

Strange medical skull that was purchased in an antique shop in Pennsylvania. There is writing labeling the different parts of the skull. Previous owner wired the interior of the skull with red lights in the eyes so it glows and eerie red color.

In the Cappella Sansevero in Naples are two “anatomical machines” of a man and a pregnant woman, made by the anatomist Giuseppe Salerno for the eccentric Prince of Sansevero. From Atlas Obscura:

There was once an anatomical fetus displayed as well, but it was stolen from the museum. Built on real human skeletons, these fleshless bodies represent the veins, arteries and musculature in amazing detail. Long thought to be made by an early form of plastination, they were recently discovered to be made — with the exception of the human skeletons — of beeswax, iron wire, and silk.

Morbid Anatomy also has a great article on these guys. (Image Source: thenautilus.it)

This is a painted skull that was sent in to the Vancouver Police Department. It’s housed at the Vancouver Police Centennial Museum in Vancouver, B.C. Atlas Obscura doesn’t provide any additional details on the painted skull, but this is tantalizing:

Among its more curious exhibits are [… ] an exhibit of the police officers who have died in the line of duty since 1886, some fairly intense anatomical specimens left over from crime analysis, the “milkshake murderer exhibit,” and—in the behind-the-scenes area, which you can see on a tour—the “blood drying room.”

Photo Source: jiblite’s Flickr.