For many personal (and artistic) reasons, I LOVE this animated short film. Absolutely brilliant!
“Blinding pain of a sinister expression!”
Category: medicine
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Oh humans…how you entertain me with your adornments. I do recall rumors about Acuvue’s diamond contact lens a while back:
Though I never heard any follow up information. Now we have La SER Eye Jewelry. Decadent? Perhaps. But creator Dr. Chandrashekhar Chawan not only donates treatments to those in need with every pair of contacts purchased, but never denies treatment to those unable to afford eye care.
A tad extreme for everyday wear (and I was once a goth), but perfect to craft a glittering undead or lavish android look.
For the happy couple…
Read more here.
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I couldn’t find much information about Richard Tennant Cooper. But I love his metaphorical medical paintings (early 20th century).
He depicts the final moments of life, the teetering between worlds and the hazards of medical procedures with spirits, demons and menacing translucent figures.
I anyone has a link to a larger resource of his work, I’d like to see it.
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I’m spending this weekend at an intensive Integrative Medicine conference. I can’t begin to describe how fascinating and wonderful it has been.
I’m trying not to get discouraged by what modern medicine has become; to believe that it is indeed possible to treat patients as whole human beings, medically, naturally, emotionally and spiritually. I plan to be an active participant in this paradigm shift we so desperately need.
When I begin to doubt my potential impact on the juggernaut of the medical industry, I like to remember this quote:
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
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Take a look at this giant post for a whole host of medical themed oil paintings and antique medicine chests (ranging from the 15th-20th century).
Some of these still contain the original specimens and potions.
See more here.
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There is a huge photo set over at English Russia containing images from abandoned medical clinics.
Models, toys, antiquated devices and chemicals…it seems that time just stopped here, and all fell into decay.
I’m surprised that these ghosts of medicine were not all stolen from the premises.
See many more here.
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A cautionary tale about alcohol…
Three cheers for perfect parenting! Go ahead and shrink wrap ’em while you’re at it…
Stylish advancement in head and body gear:
You don’t see the winning combo of cookies and guns widely offered anymore.
An existential dilemma:
Someone may be gravely injured…very soon.
I actually have a postcard copy of this somewhere.
This post brought to you by the Conference of Ms. Satan.
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BibliOdyssey just featured a beautiful series of anatomical illustrations from Florence Henwick Miller’s An Atlas of Anatomy, 1879.
They are rather vibrantly colored for illustrations of this period.
See the rest of the set here.
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Mind Hacks just had a great little roundup of fake pharmaceutical products; the inevitable satirical backlash of a medical industry like ours.
Despondex is a drug for the chronically chipper. The video is fantastic:
Most of us know someone who could use a dose of Havidol.
Panexa mocks the proliferation of drugs (and side effects), readily dispensed.
And one of the first ones I remember seeing years ago:
And although it was not in the article, one of my all time favorite medical mockeries remains Steve Martin’s “Side Effects,” published in the New Yorker in 1998 (a must-read if you haven’t seen it)
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