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



11/28/12


Richard Loeb

along with Nathan Leopold, murdered 14-years-old Robert "Bobby" Franks in 1924 and were sentenced to life imprisonment.  The duo were motivated to murder Franks by their desire to commit a perfect crime. Once apprehended, Leopold and Loeb retained Clarence Darrow as counsel for the defense. Darrow’s summation in their trial is noted for its influential criticism of capital punishment and retributive, as opposed to rehabilitative, penal systems.  Leopold and Loeb have been the inspiration for several works in film, theater, and fiction, such as the 1929 play Rope by Patrick Hamilton and Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film of the same name. - Wikipedia



11/27/12




Actress Sylvia Sidney's face
used as a guide for beauty, 1934




Head of a man with a severe disease affecting his face and scalp. 
Watercolour by Christopher D' Alton, 1872





11/24/12



Removal of epithelioma by plastic surgery.