12/31/12




Saggio di osservazioni e d’esperienze sulle principali malattie degli occhi. 
Antonio Scarpa, 1801.



12/29/12




Antonin Artaud
Selbstportrait, 24. Juni 1947



12/28/12



Jindrich Styrsky
From the Moving Cabinet series, 1934




12/26/12




Persian Woman in Chadar and Rou-band 
c.1905




12/25/12




 Anton Nuhn 
From an 1882 anatomical textbook




12/21/12





Scarification
 Photo archives Barbier Mueller, Geneva



12/20/12




On The Nerves, 1821
 Charles Bell




12/18/12





The preserved head of Cesare Lombroso




12/16/12






Pgwis, Kwakiutl
Edward Curtis, 1914





12/15/12






Tribesman,  Belgian Congo
Eliot Elisofon, 1947 



12/14/12



Cover Smoke Protector with Nod and Shake Goggles




12/10/12




Mount Nemrut, southeastern Turkey
King Antiochus I

In 62 BC, King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene built on the mountain top a tomb-sanctuary flanked by huge statues (8–9 m/26–30 ft high) of himself, two lions, two eagles and various Greek, Armenian, and Iranian gods, such as Hercules-Vahagn, Zeus-Aramazd or Oromasdes (associated with the Iranian god Ahura Mazda), Tyche, and Apollo-Mithras. These statues were once seated, with names of each god inscribed on them. The heads of the statues have at some stage been removed from their bodies, and they are now scattered throughout the site.




12/9/12


Fritz Lang’s 
KRIEMHILD’S REVENGE (1924)




12/8/12




The Colossal Head of Bavaria
 in the Nave of the Crystal Palace
Photo by Philip Henry Delamotte, 1854



12/7/12



Tetsuo
 The Iron Man 
(1989)



12/6/12




Plate  illustrating 
“the skull of a female who had a disease of the antrum 
which produced an ossific tumour"
 Joseph Fox, The Natural History and Diseaseas of the Human Teeth, 1846




Native Australian
Warramunga Man

c1920 WARRAMUNGA TRIBE AUSTRALIA BLACK MAN STONE AGE 
From People of All Nations, their life story today and the story of their past captured in numerous photographs edited by J A Hammerton.

ONE OF THE BLACKS WHO OWNED AUSTRALIA BEFORE THE WHITES CAME
This Warramunga is a member of a tribe whose kind have lived in Australia from very early times in so primitive a fashion that they have not even learned to till the ground or use more than a few simple stone and wooden implements. They are to-day only in a Stone Age state of civilization.



12/5/12




Sagittal section of hypophysectomy procedure 
showing the Killian incision.
Max Brödel (1870-1941)



12/4/12

12/3/12




"Oral Surgery", published in 1954



12/1/12





Albert Fratellini