Vintage x-ray images

I love the shapes of the skeletons of things. And of course documentation of medical oddities is endlessly fascinating. I could spend days in the Mutter Museum.

So today, I wanted to post more images from the National Museum of Health and Medicine's public archive of US Army medical imagery. This time, vintage x-rays.

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The first two are beautiful images of things that are usually hidden on the insides of us (and a rattle snake).






This is, apparently, a grenade embedded in someone's forehead, taken during the Vietnam War:




And this, one of the more disturbing but visually interesting things I've seen lately, is the after-effects of self-mutilation with graphophone needles:

Smells like musty hay (WWII PSA Posters)

I'm always drawn to vintage images and design, and I have a special fondness for the tactics used in public service and propaganda posters, and how that imagery and messaging has changed over the years.

A friend just sent me a link to a blog entry about a massive archive of US Army medical illustrations and photos that the National Museum of Health and Medicine is making available on Flickr for public use. The whole collection is amazing but my eye was immediately drawn to these World War II poison gas warning posters:

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