Bizarre Museum

[Dragula]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=11a_1176065564

"In 18th century France, one man carefully skinned over 500 dead bodies,preserving them in this bizarre state by injecting their veins, arteries and organs with his own special serum of dye and embalming fluid..."

This is truly one of mankinds most bizarre creations, he has skinned 500 humans, horses and infants. All in the name of science.

Anybody that want to go there?

 

[Crni Vuk]

Its not the only one. There is a exhibit called Body Worlds that is going around the whole world with similar anatomical "art".

Nothing for me though.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCB7dYZy32U[/youtube]

 

[Cimmerian Nights]

Yeah, I saw Bodies when it came to NYC.
"Chinese prisoners".
Riiiight.

 

[Zeal]

Poor touchy people, you should have had anotomy or work in health to see what´s good for ya.

I remember one day when i was in class this handy-man (he was a janitor, an "errand-boy", etc.), that had a tiny lump, entering the room driving a kind of weel cart (that was used to transport "stuff"), with a squeek noise and a human leg on top.

Only thing missing was the Professor saying "igor, bbrriiing da bodies", "yees, maassta"...

nothing prepares you to that!

plus if you knew the bodies we had for practise, some with 50 years of usage...

that museum is Peanuts mister.

 

[KQX]

Zeal, that sounds awesome! Was one of the wheels on the cart broken and just constantly spinning (just say yes, ok)?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttcof7TQ-Mw[/youtube]

They took us to a morgue for AP biology in high school. I remember being a little uneasy about seeing a dead body for the first time but then when they removed the sheet the thing was so old it looked like a fake mummy. Needless to say I was not impressed... nor depressed.

 

[Wooz]

Bah.

Medicine progressed immensely with the help of people willing to cut open dead bodies and make sense of the tubes, strings and assorted squishy parts.

 

[Dragula]

Medicine progressed immensely with the help of people willing to cut open dead bodies and make sense of the tubes, strings and assorted squishy parts.

No doubt about it, but I sincerly doubt skinning 500 people did anything more than making him terribly good at creating leather jackets.

 

[Yamu]

Well, this is 18th-century France we're talking about... it's not like there was any shortage of bodies. I'd almost say he was doing a public service in getting them out of the way.

 

[Deadman87]

I love how the show adds spooky music to tell us that this is "frightening" and "weird". Which it is ofc.

I sincerly doubt skinning 500 people did anything more than making him terribly good at creating leather jackets.

Kinda off topic, it reminds me of a nazi concentration camp wife who made leather lamps made out of.. well, you guessed it...

 

[Crni Vuk]

Zeal, that sounds awesome! Was one of the wheels on the cart broken and just constantly spinning (just say yes, ok)?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttcof7TQ-Mw[/youtube]

They took us to a morgue for AP biology in high school. I remember being a little uneasy about seeing a dead body for the first time but then when they removed the sheet the thing was so old it looked like a fake mummy. Needless to say I was not impressed... nor depressed.

Is that from a movie? (the actor is familar). IF yes ... thats somewhat awesomely disturbing (in a positive way, could be a interesting movie)

 

[Eyenixon]

Medicine progressed immensely with the help of people willing to cut open dead bodies and make sense of the tubes, strings and assorted squishy parts.

No doubt about it, but I sincerly doubt skinning 500 people did anything more than making him terribly good at creating leather jackets.

I'm selling these fine leather jackets...

 

[syllogz]

Is that from a movie? (the actor is familar). IF yes ... thats somewhat awesomely disturbing (in a positive way, could be a interesting movie)

Are you kidding?
That's from one of the best movies every made: Jacob's ladder!

:Evokes Jedi powers:
Crni Vuk must see Jacob's ladder! NOW!

 

[Zeal]

yes it did my friend, yes it did.... Panic everywhere, girls crying, boys crying even louder, and im not even going to tell you what happened when the leg hit the triturator!

oh the humanity.

Anyway, the more exposure the more insensitive you become. Imagine the pathologists, image the surgeons not being able to get insensitive…

Edit: sometimes we had to write our notes on the tables that are used to dissect bodies ("in practical lesson", every major is divided in theory lessons and practical ones), and in some there was still dried blood, which is a mystery since the bodies i saw were completely dry... - Oh wait, sometimes fresh animal corpses were used, yeah that must have been it...

 

[syllogz]

Edit: sometimes we had to write our notes on the tables that are used to dissect bodies

Tell me about it!

The students were coming from their anatomy practicals wearing their formalin-smelling lab coats into MY cell biology practical class.
Putting their filthy, rotting notebooks all over the place.

I hate med students.
Luckily, I'm not teaching anymore.

 

[Zeal]

Hehe I’m a biomedical eng. student, only had classes in med university during one year, for med subject’s ofc, like anatomy (which we had almost to the extent of med students), physiology, hemodynamic (althouth the professor wasn’t a doctor) and so on.

We have no therapeutics and chemistry, biology, etc are giving in my main university since there are no specific materials required (or the ones you just find at med uni).

I kinda disliked it, 1st day a professor opened with this:

“In the world there is a pyramid. On the bottom relies the eng. students (we are way more direct to engineering), then comes the engineers, succeeded by the med. students, then doctors (of medicine) and finally me”.

What a great way to break the ice. he also had a thing for girls fat, since in almost every class he pointed out it was diferent from boys...

But the med students were okay, at least didn’t treated us like they were superiors (in my country there are very few doctors, that’s why many consider themselves semi-gods – market law).

The question is, why the hell those tables didn’t get wash?

One day they gave a workshop were a graduated surgeon made a bypass on a mouse (I just attended it for fun), it ended like this:

“So you finally sew here and that’s it, see his heart still beating? Make sure you covered everything so there will be no haemorrhage. Clean all the blood and confirm. Seems everything is good, that concludes this demonstration” – Zip, she cut the mouse aorta…


Another workshop I attended for fun was “Suture” (sweing, dunno the correct term in English). It was kinda fun since you have to use tools to sew, you don’t sew directly. I actually did very good (we practised on pig legs). The doctor that was supervising came to me and congratulated: “Oh try to do more like this, yes very good work doctor” to what I replied “thank you professor, thank you”.

Then he went to a girl colleague of mine. “No no like this like this. No you are doing it wrong doctor”, to what she replied “im not a med student, im in fact studying biomedical eng.”, “Oh! Well... carry on then”.

In that workshop there was a guy from medical propaganda working for johnson´s. He spent 15 mim convencing me why that needle was the best in the market, you should have seen his face when i told him i was in biomedics. haha, priceless

Edit: typo

Twas fun…

 

[jero cvmi]

Yeah, I saw Bodies when it came to NYC.
"Chinese prisoners".
Riiiight.

wanna refund?

In keeping with the May 23, 2008 Assurance of Discontinuance executed by Premier Exhibitions, Inc. (the �Company�) and The Attorney General for the State of New York, the Company agreed to disclose the following regarding BODIES... The Exhibition, at South Street Seaport:

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