head research

9/17/12

Mona Leo

Lillian F. Schwartz

1986

Portrait of a Young Woman (detail)

Petrus Christus

Netherlandish, c. 1470

9/16/12

De Glazen Mensch -1935

9/14/12

The Incredibly Strange Creatures

Who Stopped Living

and

Became Mixed-Up Zombies

(1964)

9/12/12

A Demonstration of the Nerves of the Human Body

Joseph Swan, 1834

9/11/12

Newly born child.

Suffocation by portion of the membranes.

Atlas of Legal Medicine

9/10/12

A Picture of Good Health

Scans made by Stacie Rife
From her Grandmother's Medical Book
Published in 1906.

9/9/12

"It... It's WORSE than it was BEFORE!"

After months of undergoing plastic surgery, to repair his face after an accident, Blake Edmonds had at last got a face he was happy with! But then came a new disaster...A helicopter he was in, crashed, once again he was trapped in flames...and his face received severe burns...

Cover detail
"Death Wish" from Tiger comic book, Aug 1982

9/8/12

Smallpox lesions on face of 15 year old boy - wax model
Maker: William Gottheil
1917

(otis archives)

9/7/12

Hijo de Solar

9/6/12

Poster for Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
by Autumn Whitehurst