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Copenhagen, Denmark

Medical Museion

A novel collection of medical curiosities housed in an 18th-century surgeon training academy.
Longer muscles call for strips of stone, while smaller details require tiny pieces.
art

Turning Anatomical Drawings Into Mosaics, Stone by Stone

An artist is making massive monuments to medical illustration.
Jessica Leigh Hester January 8, 2019
Horace Vernet's <em>The Last Grenadier of Waterloo</em>, contemplating his plight.
medicine

The French Conquest of Algeria Was Sick With Nostalgia

The long, dark, painful history of an everyday emotion.
Matthew Taub December 21, 2018
Video • PinDrop

Step Inside a Surreal, Dizzying Italian Fortress

1:54
objects of intrigue

A Close-Up Look at the Most Influential Medical Book of the 16th Century

Andreas Vesalius dissected the bodies of executed prisoners to better understand human anatomy.
Lizzie Philip November 9, 2018
In the 1890s, many magical potatoes were donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, England.
museums

Why an English Museum Has a Collection of Magic Potatoes

Touch of the rheumatiz? Try carrying around a purloined spud.
Anne Ewbank November 7, 2018
Gastro Obscura

Ammoniated Coca-Cola

Coke spiked with aromatic spirits of ammonia was once used to treat everything from hangovers to indigestion.
A lithopedion extracted 55 years after it formed.
medical museums

A Fetus Can Turn to Stone in Its Mother's Body and Go Undiscovered for Decades

"Stone babies"—or lithopedions—are incredibly rare.
Sarah Laskow October 29, 2018
Retorbido.
Retorbido, Italy

Ancient Sources of Retorbido

These four fountains are said to have healing properties, with a glass of the 'miracle' water being given to Louis XII of France.
Video • Object of Intrigue

The Most Influential Medical Book of the 16th Century

2:41
The folio of al-Warrāq's manuscript.
medieval

The 10th-Century Baghdad Cookbook That’s a Poetic Tome to Food

The text features exhaustive directions for cooking, eating, and being.
Paula Mejia October 3, 2018
A 19th-century illustration of a woman resting while her nurse brings her refreshments.
food

The 'Father of American Neurology' Prescribed Women Months of Motionless Milk-Drinking

Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman were both patients of his infamous rest cure.
Abbey Perreault September 28, 2018
Visitors stare at babies in incubators at Martin Couney's New York World's Fair attraction, 1939-1940.
medicine

When Infants in Incubators Were a Sideshow Attraction

Archival photographs show the spectacle of babies who went on display, in an effort to save their lives.
Anika Burgess September 27, 2018
Musée Eudore-Dubeau
Montreal, Québec

Musée Eudore Dubeau

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.
models

A Close-Up Look at Rare 17th-Century Anatomical Manikins

The true purpose of these objects remains something of a mystery.
Lizzie Philip September 17, 2018
Do you want your hands to come out looking like these?
Tambov, Russia

Museum of Sin

A homemade anatomical collection of medical anomalies and accidental catastrophes.
Gastro Obscura

Rabarbaro

Chinese rhubarb imparts an organic smoky aroma to this Italian amaro.
Video • AO Docs

Inside the World of an Obsessive Collector of Old Tech

4:05