TheWellcome Libraryhas released over 100,000 historical medical , science , and artistry image , and they are gorgeous , strange , and a little macabre .
Here are some of our darling , which admit an former 19th - century artist ’s concept of the swarm lifetime within the Thames river ( top ) and ( in society ) a flip - panel anatomical illustration Good Book , a study of an imagine biomechanical hand from 1564 , a scrap of papyrus holding what is suppose to be the earliest recipe for a herbal medicament , a stop - motion study from lensman Eadweard Muybridge , a gyre identifying some common plants and animals used in Tibetan music , an “ exploded thorax ” representative from a aesculapian textbook from 1823 , and an oddly - threatening illustration of wounds and how to handle them .
image : Wellcome Collection
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