Wellcome Medical Image Library
July 9th, 2007 at 03:02pm cicada
The Wellcome collection of medical images has been made available for non-profit use under a Creative Commons license. This is a really fabulous resource. Just for fun I searched “trepanation” and got nine images like these:
Thanks to Stranger Fruit for the heads-up (oops, no pun was intended).
Also of interest: 43 submissions to the Worth 100 medical anomaly competition (via Boing Boing).
Entry Filed under: Retrotechnology, Education, Science, Photography, Biology


5 Comments Add your own
1. Sunil | July 10th, 2007 at 4:38 am
This is great. Can we use this to cure amnesia rampant on the Hill these days?
Yes, brain briefings is good. You can subscribe to the list and they send you a free printed copy every month. I get a lot of joy reading it in paper (but it is very basic stuff, though)..
2. Keri | July 10th, 2007 at 5:02 am
Excellent news!! Thanks for posting the link.
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5. Grace | September 19th, 2007 at 8:13 am
So beautiful. I think I love you…! (Ahem. Just kidding. Hello.)
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