Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Long Forgotten (Thankfully) Solution for Newborn Identification
Popular Science magazine featured ultraviolet branding of newborns in its December 1938 issue. Though believed to be "harmless" at the time, there are very good reasons this is not being done today.
Link: Modern Mechanix - Yesterday's Tomorrow Today
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Kaibo Zonshinzu Anatomy Scrolls Online
The Tohoku University Library in Japan has an online display of the painfully real Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy scrolls, painted in 1819 by Kyoto-area physician Yasukazu Minagaki. The style is markedly different to the Western anatomy drawings, showing blood and gore, and often faces of convicts status post decapitation.
More at the Pink Tentacle...
Full gallery at the Tohoku University Library...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A Bath a Day Keeps the Pounds Away
The February 1933 issue of Modern Mechanix magazine was claiming that spending a time in a human dishwasher will effectively help with weight loss, according to unnamed "eminent medical authorities".
Link...
(hat tip: BoingBoing)
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
From 'Monsters' to Modern Medical Miracles: The History of Conjoined Twins
The National Library of Medicine is presenting an online exhibit dedicated to the history and medicine of conjoined twins, including dozens of old drawings, photographs, and the written story of the evolution of treatments.
From medieval times through the Enlightenment conjoined twins were viewed as monsters. Their existence simultaneously horrified and amazed the common person. The established medical explanation of the day, from Hippocrates, reasoned that a conjoined twin was simply the result of there being too much seed available at conception for just one child, but not enough for two distinct beings. Even so, popular theories fueled the public's fear and wonder by suggesting that conjoined twins were the result of impure conception or the witnessing of some evil or traumatic event during pregnancy.Books depicting all sorts of monsters, both real and imagined, were extremely popular among the literate during this period. The authors often copied extensively from each other, bringing long told tales with new illustrations to another generation of the fascinated. Images of conjoined twins from some of the more popular works by Jacob Locher, Fortunio Liceti, the respected surgeon Ambroise Pare, and the anonymous author of Aristotle's Compleat Masterpiece are displayed...
View the exhibit online: From 'Monsters' to Modern Medical Miracles - Selected moments in the history of conjoined twins from medieval to modern times
(hat tip: BoingBoing)
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Monday, January 28, 2008
Electronic Medical Records Circa 1964
According to a study performed at the Children's Hospital in Ohio computers input and output terminals may help nurses, as well as as prevent medical errors. Forty years on, though, and we're still trying to help nurses and prevent medical errors.
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Friday, January 25, 2008
Historical Medical Photography
The National Museum of Public Health has uploaded to Flickr a selected collection of photos from its archives of hundreds of thousands.
The National Museum of Health and Medicine has been uploading pictures to Flickr since September 2006. We've transcribed, of course, all information that we have for each picture, but have also been posting some for which we have relatively little information, such as Library of Congress is doing, with the hope that a Flickr user will recognize them and be able to tell us more.We've been uploading the hard way, mostly one picture at a time, choosing from among the several hundred thousand we've been digitizing over the last three years. Until that database goes live, this is our way of sharing our favorite photos from our many collections.
Flickr Set 1...
Flickr Set 2...
Flickr Set 3...
(hat tip: Boing Boing via Morbid Anatomy)
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
New Old Medgadgets at Phisick Medical Antiques
Dr Laurie Slater has been busy collecting antique medical device oddities since we last wrote about his collection and accompanying Phisick website a year ago. The site has grown over time and the collection is nothing short of amazing. Of course, it also serves as a counter argument to those that long for the good old days and repeat the "they don't build them like they used to" mantra.
The image above is of an ear trumpet, a hearing aid made using a conch shell. On the right is a breast pump from the mid 1800's that's unusually made from pewter.
Check out the rest of the collection at Phisick Medical Antiques...
Flashback: Phisick Medical Antiques
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Wilhelm Reich and Orgone Accumulators
One of the more controversial figures in medical science, psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich has become a sort of Che Guevara of the industry. Claiming to have discovered a force that permeates all life, Reich went on to build and promote orgone accumulators, devices he designed to capture the so called "orgone energy" (a weather machine followed, based on the same concepts).
Undoubtedly this drew protests and controversy from the medical community, while the 1950's FBI investigated him as a possible communist attempting to subvert American society. The FBI cleared him of suspicion, while the FDA turned its attention on the orgone accumulators as an unapproved medical device Reich was inappropriately advocating the use of. This led to court, which Reich decided not to visit, and that led him to receive a contempt charge and a prison sentence.
Reich died in prison 50 years ago to date while serving a two year sentence, requesting in his will that his private scientific writings and diaries be released only 50 years after his death. Now that the papers are coming out, some of the mystery surrounding the man may be revealed, perhaps even the motivation that guided his later life.
For now we'll continue to stay skeptical about the orgone accumulator, seeing how Albert Einstein apparently himself tested and did not confirm Reich's claims of the device's action, asking him, "I hope that this will develop your skepticism".
Reason Magazine has compiled a good set of links regarding the man, his work, and the surrounding controversy.
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Friday, November 2, 2007
Faces of Battle Exhibition
This new exhibit at the National Army Museum in Chelsea is taking a look at those who were facially wounded on the battlefields of Europe during the First World War, and the heroic plastic surgeons who took care of them and, in meantime, advanced the science of medicine.
From the press statement:
Unseen photography and footage of Britain's faceless war wounded will be displayed alongside contemporary uniform sculptures tracing their surgery, rehabilitation and recovery, at a groundbreaking new exhibition opening on 10 November at the National Army Museum.Faces of Battle charts the stories of the men whose faces were blown away in battle in the First World War, and the pioneering medics who fought to enable them to face life again. The conflict saw injuries inflicted on a scale and intensity unseen before. Trenches dug to protect the bodies of soldiers from powerful new weapons could not protect their heads - exposed to sniper fire over the parapets, or to the shrapnel and artillery hailing down on them from across No Mans Land.
Surgeon Harold Gillies, posted to France in 1915, quickly realised that the number and severity of facial casualties would be vast, and successfully argued for the establishment of a special ward - ultimately, a specialist hospital - for the treatment of the facially wounded. At the start of the Battle of the Somme, he prepared his team for 200 casualties. Two thousand arrived.
Gillies' work was revolutionary, and yet is little remembered. Most field surgeons, faced with blasted faces, simply stitched together the edges of wounds to stop infection. As wounds healed and scar tissue contracted, the skin of men's faces would become twisted and not only disfiguring, but disabling. Men returned from the horrors of the front terrified to face their loved ones. Gillies' technique used bones and cartilage to reconstruct faces, and pioneered the extraordinary 'tubed pedical' method of skin grafting, in the days before skin grafts were possible. Multiple surgeries were required and the patients were kept in hospital for years at a time.
Wikipedia entry on Harold Gillies ...
Press release: FACES OF BATTLE Untold stories of suffering, heroism and hope (.PDF)
National Army Museum : Galleries and Exhibitions ...
BBC: In pictures: Faces of Battle ...
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Monday, October 8, 2007
Anatomical Atlases from the National Library of Medicine
Here's a project we did not know about: a collection of anatomical atlases from the National Library of Medicine's collection.
Each atlas is linked to a brief Author & Title Description, which offers an historical discussion of the work, its author, the artists, and the illustration technique. The Bibliographic Information link provides a bibliographical description of the atlas, so users will know which edition was scanned and if there are any characteristics special to the Library's copy.
Link: Historical Anatomies on the Web...
(hat tip: Boing Boing)
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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Ol' School Electroshock on eBay
Someone on eBay is offering a one hundred year old electroshock machine for home treatment of all your ills and troubles. Hurry, there's only four days left, and then the zapping can begin!
(hat tip: Wired blog)
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Friday, August 3, 2007
The Second Act of Woo-Suk Hwang
The disgraced group of Korean researchers under Hwang Woo-Suk, who published falsified embryonic stem cell research (most notably the retracted article from Science back in 2004), did achieve a genuine breakthrough, a newly conducted investigation on Korean group's stem cell line shows. Scientists from the Children's Hospital Boston, who analyzed Korean cells' genetic makeup, believe that Hwang Woo-Suk et al. created the first known parthenogenetic embryonic stem cell line. Parthenogenesis refers to the process in which an embryo cell contains genetic material only from a donor egg.
The press office from Children's Hospital Boston explains how the research was conducted by Kitai Kim, PhD, and George Q. Daley, MD, PhD.:
An initial investigation of the Korean group's first embryonic stem cell line suggested it might be parthenogenetic in origin, but the analysis was inconclusive, and the cells' origin, until now, had never been fully explained in a peer-reviewed journal.Kim, Daley and collaborators used sophisticated genetic techniques to compare mouse embryonic stem cells derived from different sources: from embryos produced by natural fertilization; from embryos produced by parthenogenesis (through artificial activation of unfertilized eggs); and from embryos created through somatic cell nuclear transfer (replacing the nucleus of an egg with the nucleus from a cell in the body). They also tested three human embryonic stem cells isolated from fertilized embryos as well as the Korean line of human cells claimed to have been created through nuclear transfer.
They discovered that parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells have a distinct genetic signature that reflects their biological origins. All cells typically contain paired sets of chromosomes, one inherited from the mother and the other from the father. During the process of parthenogenesis, one set of chromosomes is duplicated, resulting in both chromosomes of the pair being of one parental type or the other (a pattern called homozygosity, which has reduced genetic diversity). Kim and Daley showed previously that because chromosomes often exchange genetic material early in the process of cell division that creates the egg (meiosis), the duplicated chromosomes are not actually identical, but have places where the genes differ between members of the pair (called heterozygosity). In embryonic stem cells of parthenogenetic origin, this occurs especially toward the ends of the chromosomes, which are more likely to exchange genetic material, rather than the middle. In contrast, embryonic stem cells created through nuclear transfer show a consistent pattern of variation through all regions of the chromosome -- thus making them easily distinguishable from parthenogenetic cells.
The Korean cell line displays a genetic pattern that is clearly consistent with a parthenogenetic origin, Kim and Daley now show.
Because mistakes during nuclear transfer can result in parthenogenetic cells, Daley believes that the Hwang group generated parthenogenetic stem cells by accident, and didn't have the tools to conclusively determine what they had created. The first isolation of parthenogenetic stem cells from humans would have been an important contribution, but the Hwang group's attempt to pass off the cells as made by nuclear transfer was instead "a woeful case of misconduct," he says.
Press release: Discredited Korean stem cells' true origins revealed ...
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Monday, July 30, 2007
The Cairo Toe
Investigators from The University of Manchester are trying to prove that an item in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is the oldest known functional human prosthesis:
Research at The University of Manchester is hoping to prove that the wood and leather artefact in the Cairo Museum not only looked the part but also helped its owner walk 'like an Egyptian'.If true, the toe will predate what is currently considered to be the earliest known practical prosthesis - an artificial leg from 300BC - by several hundred years.
Jacky Finch, who is carrying out the study at Manchester's KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology, is recruiting volunteers whose right big toe has been lost in order to test an exact replica of the artificial toe.
A model of a second false Egyptian big toe on display in the British Museum, albeit without its mummy, will also be tested at the Human Performance Laboratory at nearby University of Salford.
"The toes date from between 1000 and 600BC, so if we can prove that one or both were functional then we will have pushed back prosthetic medicine by as much as 700 years," said Jacky.
"The Cairo toe is the most likely of the two to be functional as it is articulated and shows signs of wear. It is still attached to the foot of the mummy of a female between 50 and 60 years of age. The amputation site is also well healed."
The British Museum artefact - named the Greville Chester Great Toe after the collector who acquired it for the museum in 1881 - is made from cartonnage, a sort of papier maché made using linen, glue and plaster.
It too shows signs of wear, indicating that it may have been worn by its owner in life and not simply attached to the foot during mummification for religious or ritualistic reasons. However, unlike the Cairo specimen, the Greville Chester toe does not bend and so is likely to have been more cosmetic.
Press release: Science steps in to discover wonders of Toe-tankhamun ...
(hat tip: Crave)
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Thursday, July 12, 2007
You're Not Getting Any Work Done Today: The Modern Mechanix Medical Section
WARNING: Do not follow these links if you want to get anything done in the next 4 hours. Via another collection of awesome retro-ness, we found the Modern Mechanix blog. Here you'll discover the best collection of retro pop-science anywhere. The best part is, so much of it ties right in to today's major accomplishments. It's like medical technology was on hiatus from the 50s until about the 80s.
Here we find an early stomach-cam:
A NEW wonder in photography that will take pictures of the innermost recesses of the human stomach has recently been developed by three doctors of the University of Vienna. This amazing device, shown on the right, takes eight pictures simultaneously.
There's this crazy thing at a Los Angeles hospital called a "blood bank," thoughts on the "Right-to-die" issue, pre-DNA genetics research, and advanced prosthetics.
More from Modern Mechanix. The Personal Appearance Section is worth a look too (particularly this machine that "measure the beauty of the face"), as in the 20s and 30s, medicine and personal appearance were closely related pseudosciences.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
I Love (not having kids with) You; Birth Control of Yesteryear...
Here's a fun fact: the universal symbol of love and affection has its origins in an herb that let the ancients fornicate [like rabbits] free from the worries of pregnancy. Yep, thats right, the heart shaped sign that we all know and love originated as the universal sign for a natural birth control pill.
The prized plant became such a key pillar of the Cyrenean economy that its likeness was stamped upon many of the city's gold and silver coins. The images often depicted a regal-looking woman sitting in a chair, with one hand touching the herb and her other hand pointing at her genitals. The plant was known as silphium or laserwort, and its heart-shaped fruit brought the ancient world a highly sought-after freedom: the opportunity to enjoy sex with very little risk of pregnancy.
As word of the birth-control wonder-herb spread through ancient Europe, Africa, and Asia, a market for the versatile fennel developed rapidly. The seeds became widely used among the world's wealthier nations, including the citizens of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and India. By some accounts the silphium seed was also a potent aphrodisiac, a property which considerably compounded its perceived value. The Roman bard Catullus famously alluded to its sexual properties in one of his love poems, where he declared that he and his lover would share as many kisses as there were grains of sand on Cyrene's silphium shores. More plainly, "We can make love so long as we have silphium."
For centuries the north African city thrived on its laserwort bounty. The seeds of the fickle fennel came into such high demand that they were eventually worth their weight in silver. The Roman government went so far as to store a cache of the herb in the official treasury. Most of the primitive silver and gold coins from Cyrene were stamped with images of the silphium, some depicting just a single heart-shaped seed. It is thought by many historians that this ancient icon of unfettered lovemaking is the origin of today's ubiquitous "I love you" heart symbol.
Unlike many other medicines of its time, silphium was not thought of as a mere folk remedy; Scholars and doctors of the day openly praised the plant's effectiveness as a contraceptive. Ancient Rome's foremost gynecologist--a physician named Soranus--wrote that women should drink the silphium juice with water once a month since "it not only prevents conception but also destroys anything existing." Alternatively, a tuft of wool could be soaked in the juice and inserted into the vagina as a pessary. The herb's effectiveness and widespread use is evidenced by the observation that Rome's birth rate decreased during laserwort's heyday, despite increasing life expectancy, plentiful food, and relatively few wars or epidemics.
Unfortunately, modern science will probably never determine whether the fennel's extract was an effective form of parenthood prevention, nor will it measure laserwort's merit as a medicine. By the end of the first century AD, following a fifty year decline in silphium numbers, the Roman historian Pliny the Elder recorded the plant's lamentable extinction. The last remaining stalk of the laserwort was snipped and sent to Emperor Nero as a "curiosity," and thus ended six hundred years of reliable birth control.
More at Damn Interesting and Salon...
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Friday, March 2, 2007
The Immortal Line
A deadly pandemic from early last century. An English nobleman. A lead-lined coffin. And now, a race to exhume him, and maybe prevent the next pandemic. It's all here in this story in the Telegraph:
The body of an English aristocrat who died almost 90 years ago is to be exhumed in the hope that it could help the fight against bird flu and other potential pandemics.
Sir Mark Sykes, 6th baronet and owner of Sledmere House in Yorkshire, was killed by the Spanish flu virus in 1919, aged 39. He had been working on the Versailles Peace Conference and was with his wife in a Paris hotel when he died.Sir Mark was buried in St Mark's graveyard, at Sledmere, in a lead-lined coffin because the disease was so virulent. It killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
Now scientists, who have been looking for a sample of the virus, hope the preservative qualities of the metal coffin may mean samples of his DNA can still be taken. They believe analysis of Sir Mark's genetic material could uncover new information about the H1N1 virus which killed him, and help to develop drugs to fight modern forms of the disease such as bird flu (H5N1).
We think there's something poignant about this English diplomat with the promising future, who died young, but in some way is still helping to save the world. It reminds us of Rupert Brooke's poem, The Soldier , written a few years before Sykes' death:
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.
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Tuesday, February 6, 2007
The Making of Modern Medicine
The Making of Modern Medicine is a new BBC Radio 4 program that will chart more than 2000 years of medical progress. The series is running every weekday until Friday, March 16th. You will be able to listen to all of the 30 (!) episodes by going to the official webpage. Once it runs through, we will make a post with links to all the episodes for your listening pleasure. The first chapter has just aired, and is now available on the BBC's website.
From the BBC's intro to the program:
Modern medicine's achievements in countering illness and mortality owe their origins to a scientific revolution in France 200 years ago.In the very early 1800s, in the wake of the French Revolution, a group of energetic and influential medics based mainly around Paris, became the pioneers of modern medicine.
Their aim was to reform medicine along the lines that physics and chemistry had been developed in the course of the 18th century - to give it a scientific basis.
Medicine was now to be based on experiment and observation, and to rely on the senses rather than the imagination when looking for causes.
In other words, they gave medicine a typically Enlightenment treatment...
The events of the French Revolution triggered a big-bang which completely transformed medicine.
After centuries of near stagnation, medicine embarked on the huge scientific task of classifying human disease.
The foundations laid by Laennec, Corvisart and others opened the door to allow scientists to discover much more about how and why people become ill and what can be done to treat and cure them.
The Making of Modern Medicine website...
Listen to the Episode #1...
BBC News: The making of modern medicine
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Why We're Glad We Don't Get the British National Geographic Channel: The First Head Transplant
The number one cliche in covering medical technology is a reference to science fiction becoming science reality. Oooh...such clever word-play. But...in this case...it pretty much applies. This one comes to us by way of the Daily Mail. The National Geographic Channel is running a documentary on a Soviet Dr Demikhov and Dr White of the US, who did research in the 50s and 60s respectively on head transplants...
Blinking unhappily in the daylight as Demikhov paraded it on its lead, this unfortunate beast had been created by grafting the head and upper body of a small puppy on to the head and body of a fully-grown mastiff, to form one grotesque creature with two heads. The visitors watched in horror and fascination as both of the beast's mouths lapped greedily at a bowl of milk proffered by Demikhov's assistants.During his trip, White learned of new Soviet experiments, in which a severed dog's head had been kept 'alive', not by stitching it onto another dog's body, but using special life-support machinery. Most remarkable of all, the isolated head had continued to show signs of consciousness - its eyes blinking in response to light, and ears pricking at the tap of a hammer on the cases it was in.
This inspired White to take Demikhov's original two-headed dog experiment a stage further: not merely grafting one animal's head on to another's body, but completely replacing one animal's head with another.
This highly complicated operation took White three years to plan and he knew many people would find it morally repugnant. But in the late afternoon of March 14, 1970, he went ahead with the world's first true head transplant, using two rhesus monkeys.
Decapitating both animals, the surgeon successfully managed to stitch the head of one monkey on to the body of the other. He and his team then faced a nervous wait until finally the 'hybrid' monkey regained consciousness, opened its eyes and tried to bite a surgeon who put a finger in its mouth.
Apparently, things go on from there to cover that many of the technological issues holding them back could probably be overcome today. Of course, there really remains no good way to restore neural connections to the remainder of the body.
This is certain to ruffle some feathers for being cruel/unethical/perverted. However, we've probably come across the modern day equivalent of the Renaissance's forbidden after-hours dissections in the morgue. Without such culturally unacceptable research, medicine might never move forward.
There's much more from the Daily News, who has the show listed at 9pm on Jan 28th. We checked our local listings, but it appears it won't be on any time soon. Any of our international readers want to tape it for us?
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
4800-Year-Old Artificial Eyeball
From the announcement by the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies, an educational and research group out of UK:
Archaeologists in Burnt City announced unprecedented discovery of an artificial eyeball, dated to 4800 years ago, in this historic site.Announcing this news, director of Burnt City archaeology excavation team, Mansur Sajadi, said that this eyeball belongs to a sturdy woman who was between 25 to 30 years of age at the time of death. Skeletal remains of the woman were found in grave number 6705 of Burnt City's cemetery.
Regarding the material used to make this artificial eyeball, Sajadi said: "The material this artificial eyeball is made of has not yet been determined and will be assessed through later testing. However, at first glance it seems natural tar mixed with animal fat has been used in making it."
Initial studies on the eyeball also suggest formation of an abscess in the eyelid due to long-term contact with the eyeball. Moreover, remaining eyelid tissues are still evident on this artificial eyeball.
According to Sajadi, even the most delicate eye capillaries were drawn on this eyeball using golden wires with a thickness measuring less than half a millimetre. There are also some parallel lines around the pupil forming a diamond shape. Two holes are also seen on the sides of this eyeball to hold it in the eye socket.
Initial anthropological studies on the remaining skeleton of the woman to which this artificial eyeball belong revealed that she was a hybrid woman who died 4800 years ago between the ages of 25 to 30.
A number of clay vessels, ornamental beads, a leather sack, and a bronze mirror have also been found in the grave of this woman.
Link...
(hat tip: digg)
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