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illustration of a screwworm fly dumping eggs on a wound

The Screwiest—and Perhaps Most Original—Idea of the 20th Century

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Two floating men working in space station

Stuck Inside

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Photo of mattress with spraypainted warning

A Perfect Glutton, Never Ceasing

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Cartoon of group of men dissecting bodies in an attic

The Anatomy Riots

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Advertisement of a child eating

Chewing It Over—and Over and Over and Over

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Illustration of a young woman with skin lesions

Joseph Goldberger’s Filth Parties

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black and white engraving of a domestic scene

Medicinal Leeches and Where to Find Them

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The Alchymist (1775), an engraving

Hennig Brandt and the Discovery of Phosphorus

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Tollund Man

Bodies in the Bog: The Lindow Mysteries

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Harry versus the Volcano

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Probing the Mysteries of Human Digestion

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caricature of a man blowing smoke out of his nostrils

If You Smell Something, Say Something

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Painting of a operation in a historical surgery theater

From Barbers and Butchers to Modern Surgeons

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18th century book gnawed by bookworms

What’s That Smell You’re Reading?

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Fizzy Water

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Military Solution

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Grindhouse Wetware’s Northstar device in 2015.

Hacking Humans

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Amputation

Auld Medicine

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Filippo Marinetti, 1934

Food Fight

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Waste Not, Want Not

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Tryals and Tribulations

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Fleischmann’s Yeast for Health campaign

The Healing Power of Compressed Yeast

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Barnum & Bailey Poster

Strange Things

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The Machiavelli Microbe

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Pig

The Strange, Gruesome Search for Substance X

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Yellow Fever

Yellow Fever Fiend

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Trading cards

Where’s the Beef?

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Guano ad

Dirty Business

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Lancets and a blood collecting bowl

Let It Bleed

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Illustration of factories on the Hudson River in New York City, 1870s

The Smell Detectives

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Army surgeons

Frontline Pharmacies

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