Lindsey FitzharrisOvjeren akaunt

@DrLindseyFitz

Storyteller. Medical historian (Oxford, PhD). Conveyor of nightmarish history. Author: THE BUTCHERING ART. Host: 's CURIOUS LIFE AND DEATH OF...

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2010.
Rođen/a 11. svibnja

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    I’m excited to announce that my NEXT BOOK will be on the birth of plastic surgery told through the incredible story of Harold Gillies, the pioneering surgeon who first united art & medicine to address the horrific injures that resulted from WW1. More info:

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  2. When your wall of wax moulages depicting venereal diseases provides the ideal backdrop to 's new book A CURIOUS HISTORY OF SEX. A perfect fit, like a reusable 18th-century condom!😂👇

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  3. In case you're wondering, here's Thomas Edison's "last breath" - collected by his admirer and friend, Henry Ford, on the inventor's deathbed.

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  4. From Thomas Edison's "last breath," to Galileo's finger and Einstein's chalkboard, I looked at our enduring fascination with relics (both holy and secular) for the . An old article, but a nice distraction on a Thursday afternoon:

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    Our 2020 Programme is selling out fast! So many amazing talks, workshops and films! Have you picked up your flyer yet? No? You can always go to our events page at & check out what's on ! Don't miss out! Stay in the loop! 😎

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  6. A gift idea: a hand-blown glass wine decanter shaped like blood vessels by the French artist Etienne Meneau. More info:

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    Italian health pass enabling bearer to pass despite quarantines due to plague, 1722. The word quarantine was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni, meaning 40 days - the number of days a ship coming from an infected port had to sit at anchor before entering Venice.

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    Trade Card of Nathaniel Longbottom, “Supplier of Skeletons in St. Thomas's Street, Southwark,” late 18th century. Longbottom would likely have had interactions with bodysnatchers (or “resurrectionists”) to help him procure skeletons for his shop. Object: .

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  9. Italian health pass enabling bearer to pass despite quarantines due to plague, 1722. The word quarantine was derived from the Italian words quaranta giorni, meaning 40 days - the number of days a ship coming from an infected port had to sit at anchor before entering Venice.

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    Feel like sending some morbid Valentines? My greeting card sets will be 33% off through the end of the week. Each card has a different illustration on it that I did for 's book

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    Decellularized GHOST HEART, created by stripping all the living cells from a pig’s heart. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute hope that one day it could serve as a scaffold upon which to grow a working heart from human stem cells. More info on my IG:

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    Today’s delight: teeny tiny planispheres from 18th-century pocket atlases.

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    "Improvement in science does not necessarily mean that we need to eliminate human variety, let alone human conditions that are absolutely not life-threatening." I was interviewed for this article in on CRISPR technology for deafness:

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  14. Trade Card of Nathaniel Longbottom, “Supplier of Skeletons in St. Thomas's Street, Southwark,” late 18th century. Longbottom would likely have had interactions with bodysnatchers (or “resurrectionists”) to help him procure skeletons for his shop. Object: .

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    How do we remmeber someone in death when we know very little of them in life? Read about New York City’s Hart Island, where a million bodies have been sent over the past century and where, even now, a thousand more unclaimed dead are taken each year.

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    Ah yes, a man whose forceps were covered with leather as cushioning *shudders*

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    Oh how I do love researching Victorian sleep medicine. Anyone up for an electrified bath? Sure to re-invigorate tired nerves...

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  19. Decellularized GHOST HEART, created by stripping all the living cells from a pig’s heart. Researchers at the Texas Heart Institute hope that one day it could serve as a scaffold upon which to grow a working heart from human stem cells. More info on my IG:

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    In the 19th century, women known as "watchers" were tasked with verifying the dead. A fascinating read 👇

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    “Wound Man” is an illustration which laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or otherwise, often with corresponding treatments. This example (15th century, purely descriptive) is from .

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