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THE DOCTOR'S BAG     the blog about 19th century Medicine and Surgery       Keith Souter  aka Clay More                Rattlesnake ( Crotal... Vintage Doctors Bag, The Only One Left By Riley Sager, Victorian Doctor Aesthetic, Wild West Doctor, Victorian Doctor, Riley Sager, Medicine And Surgery, Medical Bag, Western Medicine

THE DOCTOR'S BAG the blog about 19th century Medicine and Surgery Keith Souter aka Clay More Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) bites are common in western novels and movies. The treatment of them always involved pulling out a knife, cutting a cross over the bite, then sucking out the poison and spitting it away. The knife blade would then be heated to red heat and used to cauterize the wound. The bitten person would then develop a fever and probably rave deliriously throughout the night beside…

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Vintage Anatomy Prints, Old Anatomy Book, Medical Diagrams, Biological Illustration, Stary Papier, Dnd Campaign, Istoria Artei, Medical Wallpaper, Human Anatomy Art

I just discovered this wonderful anatomical chart (see above) from volume one of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, published in 1728. A beautiful, hi-res version of the image is available in the Wikipedia commons; I highly encourage you to visit the original (here) which is well worth a long, involved perusing, but is, sadly, too large to include here. To encourage you to visit the original, I have selected out some of my favorite details above. You can also check out the entire digitized book…

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