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billyjane:Autopsy,c.1900s by F[r]itz W.Guerin [more at turnofthecentury]
from Historical Ziegfeld](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbz62jqWlT1qztk1wo1_500.jpg)
billyjane:Autopsy,c.1900s by F[r]itz W.Guerin [more at turnofthecentury]
from Historical Ziegfeld
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Patient using exercise machine at the Zander Institute in Stockholm, 1890s. Courtesy Tekniska Museet/National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm.
Dr. Gustav Zander founded the institute in the late nineteenth century and stocked it with twenty-seven of his custom-built machines. It was the first “gym” in the sense that we know the word today.
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Electro-physiology sessions (Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine ou Analyse Electro-Physiologique de L’Expression des Passions, Paris, 1862) conducted by Dr. Duchenne and photographed by Adrien Tournachon (brother of the better known Gaspard Felix Tournachon, aka Nadar)
From Luminous-Lint - found via e l e t t r o g e n i c a
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Syphiloderma Tuberculosum
photo by O.G.Mason
from John Wood:Endurance and Suffering Narratives of Disease in the 19th Century
