#HistMed
Marie Curie's notebooks are radioactive and must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.
#histodons #histodon #histsci #histmed #science #scientist #radioactive
This prosthetic eye made from a mixture of natural tar & animal fat is nearly 5,000 years old. It was found near the city of Zabol in Iran in 2006. Archaeologists believe that the prosthetic eye, which was once painted gold, was worn by an ancient priestess who stood 6’ tall.
#histodons #archaeology #archeology #skeleton #humanremains #histodon #histmed #histsci
The oldest-surviving anatomical theatre in the world, built in 1594 and located in Padua. At the center stands a table on which the dissections of human or animal bodies took place. You can still visit it today. Photo: Daily Art Magazine.
#HistMed #Histodons #Histodon #Introductions #Twitterstorians #TwitterMigration #HistSci #Anatomy #Doctor #MedStudent #Medicine #DYI #Tourism #DarkTourism #Historian #History
Thanks to a friend for introducing me to this fascinating effigy of Sarah Hare who died of septicaemia and is displayed in a Norfolk Church.
Am trying to find out who sculpted her as she looks like one of Joseph Towne's wax moulages, but I'm not sure.
Any ideas?
#histodons #histmed #medhist #anatomy
https://janeaustensworld.com/2011/09/12/the-strange-wax-effigy-of-sarah-hare-18th-century-spinster/
This elaborate alarm clock from the 19th century prompted people to think about the shortness of life. When the alarm bell chimed, a small card running up the skeleton’s spinal column retracted to make the jaw open and the eyes roll. It's now at the Science Museum, London.
#histodon #histodons #history #museum #museumobject #histmed #histsci #sciart #mementomori #FF
Il me parle des pilules Eucalyptine qui lui faisaient des rots à parfum médicinal.
#histmed #histpharma
Les frères Lumière ont inventé tout un tas de profuits pharmaceutique, le plus connu étant le tulle gras Lumière, inventé juste à temps pour servir massivement pendant la Grande guerre. #histmed
#TIL
https://lumiere.click-clack.fr/medicaments.html
"The Tooth Worm as Hell's Demon,” 18th century. Carved from ivory, the two halves open up to reveal a scene about the infernal torments of a tooth worms which people believed caused cavities in the past. Complete with mini skulls, hellfire, and naked people wielding clubs.
#histodons #histodon #histmed #dentist #dentalhistory #histmed #histsci #sciart
Happy birthday to trailblazing American #biochemist Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), 1st Black woman to earn a PhD in #chemistry in the US! She made important research contributions to our understanding of the biochemisty of the cell nucleus & cardiovascular issues & our knowledge of the chemistry of histones & protein synthesis.
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#womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #printmaking #linocut #histmed #HeartDisease
Zum #Weltgesundheitstag ein Blick zurück auf #WerkstattGeschichte 78/2018 "krank machen":
Im Thementeil, hg. von Yvonne Robel & Malte Thiessen (@malte_thiessen), Beiträge zur medizinischen & sozialen #Pathologisierung v. Annika Raapke (https://twitter.com/MouseEmperor), Britta-Marie Schenk, Jens Gründler (https://twitter.com/jensi13) & Y. Robel.
Alles online: https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/krank-machen/
Wir verlosen ein Heft unter allen, die heute boosten!
If you're interested in the history of infertility, my book is currently on sale for about a quarter of its regular price.
I make essentially no money of off this, so I promise I'm not trying to get rich at your expense.
This is from an actual article in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine from 1954. It's about how chronic brucellosis patients probably suffer from psychoneurosis.
They say the interpretation of the drawings confirms the report.
I'm amused, but not convinced.
“Patient in Case 3 drew this cat on request to draw an animal. The cat is a symbol of his feminine qualities; its size reveals his fear of femininity and weakness.”
My April substack is out! Check it out.
#foodhistory #Culinaryhistory #histmed #foodculture
https://open.substack.com/pub/historicalfoodways/p/sago-and-sagu
I've spent all afternoon finishing tomorrow's (April's) substack and it's done and scheduled.
It's a bit food history, a bit history of medicine, a bit plants humanities, a bit 21st century confusion.
Make sure you subscribe so you don't miss it!
We are delighted to announce we now have an online shop! We sell a wide variety of items- from brain shaped cookie cutters to skeleton nesting dolls!
You can check it out for yourself here: https://shop.museum.rcsed.ac.uk/
#museum #histodons #histmed #medhist #onlineshop #shopping #shoplocal #museumshop
“It is important to advise rest during the acute phase of the disease or during relapses. Patients require sympathy, understanding and reassurance and must be encouraged to accept the limitations imposed upon them and to 'come to terms' with the disease. Admonitions to 'snap out of it' are totally misplaced.”
/Ramsay & Emond, "Benign myalgic encephalomyelitis or epidemic neuromyasthenia", Infectious Diseases, 1967.
#pwME #MEcfs #histmed @historyofmedicine #HistoryOfMedicine #histodons
I'll be appearing in 2 episodes of Radio 4's BEST MEDICINE, hosted by the brilliant
@kiripritchardmclean! The series celebrates comedy & medical marvels. Tickets to the recording on May 30th are FREE: https://sroaudiences.com
Come for the laughs, stay for the Victorian surgery!
#histodons #histodon #radio #bestmedicine #comedian #comedy #histmed #histsci
Word of the day: Noli me tangere, med., obsolète, "Any of various diseases causing ulcers of the skin and underlying tissues, especially of the face"
Il s'agissait probablement de carcinome basocellulaire ou épidermoïde.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/noli_me_tangere#English
#motdujour #histmed
"Carie..."
ok
"... syphilitique de la colonne lombaire"
AAAAAAAH
#histmed
https://www.biusante.parisdescartes.fr/histoire/images/index.php?refphot=STLCFO00079
Commandé à l'instant à mon libraire : Du Tabac pour le mort une histoire de la réanimation.
#histmed #histsci #hist
https://journals.openedition.org/gradhiva/4777
#histodons ! #histSTM #histmed - does anyone have a favourite reading for UGs on gendered diagnosis/treatment c.1850-2000? Other than the *obvious* and classic big texts on hysteria, mental illness & similar which are always on the reading list? For e.g. I love this on heart disease in Germany https://academic.oup.com/shm/article-abstract/28/4/869/2510475 & am looking for more in this vein, perhaps underconsidered diseases or places?
CfA: #NTM-Artikelpreis für junge Autor*innen, Deadline: 10.04.2023. Mehr Infos (de/en) hier: https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-134413
#histmed #histsci #histtech #gwmt #histodons @histodons
The COCARETTE was a cigarette made with coca & tobacco leaves, c.1885. The company claimed that coca was “the finest nerve tonic and exhilarator ever discovered.”
#histodons #histmed #histodon #medhist #medhistorian #medmastodon #believeitornot #DYK
Happy birthday to Canadian medical researcher & #biochemist Maud Menten (1879-1960). Not only an author of Michaelis-Menten equation for #enzyme kinetics, she invented the azo-dye coupling for alkaline phosphatase, 1st example of enzyme #histochemistry, still used in imaging of tissues today & she also performed the first #electrophoretic separation of blood haemoglobin in 1944!
#sciart #histstm #histmed #biochemistry #linocut #printmaking #womenInSTEM #womensHistoryMonth
In the 1930s, Listerine cigarettes were created. The tobacco was infused with the same antiseptic oils used in the mouthwash for a "cooling and soothing effect." Listerine cigarettes were evidently not very popular because there is almost no record of their existence.
#histodons #histodon #histmed #histsci #DYK #medhist #medmastodon
Midwifery Bag, c.1866 - containing destructive & non-destructive instruments. This bag would likely have belonged to a male midwife/obstetrican as female midwives traditionally did not use instruments when delivering babies in this period.
Photo: Science Museum, London.
#HistMed #MedHist #HistSci #MedMastodon #Histodon #Histodons #History #MuseumArchive #MuseumObject #FF
Henry Gray of #GraysAnatomy in a dissection room, c.1845. Gray contracted smallpox after caring for his nephew, who eventually recovered. On 13 June 1861, the day he was to appear for an interview as a final candidate for a prestigious hospital post, he died at the age of 34.
#HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon #Histodon #Histodons #Anatomy #Dissection #MedHistory #MedicalHistorian #MedStudent
Good, contemporary material for a #History of disease / #HistMed course. How does a non-normed characteristic become a disease? Technological change, and both "overt and subtle messaging from the pharmaceutical companies"
https://www.statnews.com/2023/03/05/weight-loss-drugs-changing-obesity-narrative/
18th-century pewter syringe recovered from the shipwreck of the Queen Anne's Revenge, the famed flagship of the pirate Black Beard. The syringe contained mercury, which most likely treated pirates aboard ailing from syphilis. More info: https://www.livescience.com/49563-blackbeard-pirate-ship-yields-medical-supplies.html
#histodons #histodon #history #histmed #histsci #believeitornot #FF #FollowFriday
This knuckle-duster belonged to dentist Frederick Smith. Smith was a dentist in Chesterfield. He carried this knuckle-duster as protection from "highwaymen" on his weekly horse drawn cab journey to his practice in Alfreton.
#museum #edinburgh #dentist #dentistry #histmed #medhist #history #histodons
Napoleon's Toothbrush, c.1790. Napoleon brushed his teeth regularly using opium-based toothpaste. His toothbrush has a silver gilt handle and bristles made of horsehair, which would have been very rough on the gums.
Photo: the Wellcome Collection, London.
#histodons #histodon #histmed #histsci #dentist #Napoleon #history #MuseumArchive
For #InternationalWomensDay2023: the face of CPR doll "Resusci Annie" is based off a death mask of a woman who drowned in Paris in the 1880s. L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seine) teaches us how to save lives. More info on her story can be found on my IG page: instagram.com/p/CFNllKDMRQz/
#DYK #IWD #HistMed #Histsci #SciArt #ScienceMastodon #CPR #sciencecommunication #histodons #histodon #history
It's #NationalDentistDay! Here's an illustration of a scientist using a steam machine, with pulley, to extract a tooth from a man drawn on the front of an envelope addressed to a Dr. J. Chapman, 1894.
Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.
#histodon #histodons #histmed #histsci #sciart #artistsonmastodon #MuseumArchive #dentist
On #WorldBookDay, here I am holding a BOOK BOUND IN THE SKIN OF THE MURDERER William Burke, now at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh. Want to know more about anthropodermic bibliopegy (binding books with human skin)? Check out my video on my YouTube channel #UnderTheKnife: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHKqBaAmzfU
#histodon #histodons #histmed #histsci #booklover #surgeonshall #MedMastodon
"Ich habe die Franzosen gehabt" (in English: I have had the French).
Human diseases are a transnational thing. Meet this woodcut detail from a German seventeenth-century medical #broadsheet highlighting a curing of the "French disease" aka #syphilis.
Access the print: https://katalog.slub-dresden.de/id/0-1656750759
A short thread for #histmed, #histodons and #bookhistory
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BLOODLETTING WITH SCARIFICATOR, late 17th century. This instrument with spring-loaded blades delivered many cuts simultaneously. Afterwards, the doctor placed a heated cup over the site. As it cooled, blood was forced out of the wounds.
Photo: University of Melbourne.
#histodons #histmed #histsci #MedMastodon #histodon #history #Twitterstorians
I wonder how many millions of lives this simple idea has saved?
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RT @RCPSGheritage
Renee Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope, was born #OTD in 1781 🥳
The first stethoscope was made out of wood with 3 detachable parts for listening to the sounds of the lungs and heart 🫁🫀
#HistMed #Heritage #Stethoscope
https://twitter.com/RCPSGheritage/status/1626536944917434368
She was devoted to playing the flute, gardening & her dogs; when her cancer made flute playing difficult, she learned the guitar. She died in 2003, at the age of 82, in New York City. #womenInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #histstm #printmaking #linocut #histmed #HeartDisease
Wax Vanitas (c.1700) - intended to remind us of the certainty of death. One side features a skull with insects feasting on decaying flesh. The other side resembles Queen Elizabeth I. It reads: “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
This object is from the Wellcome Collection in #London.
#HistMed #MementoMori #HistSci #Histodons #Museums #WeirdHistory #MuseumObject #SciArt #Queen
Sur le même thème, il faudrait que je lise le bouquin historique "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women", parce que quand même #histsci #histtech #histmed et #histsoc ! https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/31409135
Did you know that the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense had a number of medical research groups that focused on illnesses such as sickle cell anemia that were under-studied because they were considered to be a "black disease."
Read:
"Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination"
#BlackPanthers #TheBlackPanthers #HistMed #HSTM
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/body-and-soul
Tinted, double-hinged spectacles, c.1790. Many opticians believed green or blue glass was easier on the eyes and would reduce glare; while clear glass was too soft and would distort images.
This extraordinary example is from the Wellcome Collection in London.
#histmed #histsci #histodons #mastodon #introduction #medhist #medhistory #MedMastodon #museumobject #steampunk
"The Tooth Worm as Hell's Demon,” 18th century. Carved from ivory, the two halves open up to reveal a scene about the infernal torments of a tooth worms which people believed caused cavities in the past. Complete with mini skulls, hellfire, and naked people wielding clubs.
#histodons #mastodon #introduction #histmed #histsci #museumobject #medhist #MedMastodon
Stumbled upon a cabinet of 19th-century anatomical treasures at the Natural History Museum in Venice. Unfortunately, there was very little information about the collection, but it did feel very much like walking into the office of an obsessive Victorian professor. I couldn't resist getting a few photos for you guys.
#histodon #mastodon #twittermigration #HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon #Museums #MuseumArchive #anatomy
The Washington Examiner claims that medicine has “for hundreds of years” treated patients without regard for class status or race. Maybe if they read some actual books in #HistMed they wouldn’t sound so gobsmackingly dumb https://apple.news/A9-9pefSIRuWbMpsdQARAPQ
The severe pitting in this skull is the direct result of tertiary syphilis, a bacterial infection commonly transmitted through sexual contact. Sometimes referred to as "Cupid's Disease," syphilis was fatal before the discovery of penicillin in 1928. In the final stage, the disease attacks a person's skeletal structure, as well as the brain and nervous system. This skull is from the Medical Museion in Copenhagen, Denmark, and dates to the 19th century.
Oldest-surviving anatomical theatre, located in Padua and built in 1594. Over the entrance is the Latin inscription: “hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitam.” Roughly: “this is the place where death delights to help life (or the living).”
Photo: Rolando Paolo Guerzoni.
#histmed #histsci #histodons #TIL #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #anatomy #MedHist #science #medicine #Weird
As the calendar is turned to a new year, I thought a little reflection was in order upon what 2022 brought (or perhaps more appropriately "wrought upon") The Well-read Naturalist, and how I hope to repair the damage and even make improvements beyond mere correction to it in 2023. ithttps://www.wellreadnaturalist.com/2023/01/heres-to-the-coming-year/ #bookstodon #BookReview #NaturalHistory #HistSci #HistMed #reading @bookstodon
Disease of the eye "caused by witchcraft" - from a book on ocular diseases published in 1583.
Adding this to the list of potential #author photos.
They knew hundreds of medicinal plants, prescribed medicines and even performed surgeries! While their concepts of medicine were entwined with religion and magic, even in the Old Kingdom, they were performing some roles and duties we would recognize today, and women were part of this tradition.
#linocut #sciart #printmaking #histstm #histmed #medicine #Peseshet #AncientEgypt #hieroglyphics
In 1863, Alexander T. Augusta became the first African-American commissioned as a medical officer in the Union Army and was awarded the rank of major. He was eventually put in charge of his own hospital during the Civil War. He was 1 of 13 African American doctors to serve.
#Histmed #HistSci #TIL #History #DYK #Histodons #Histodon #MedMastodon #CivilWar #Victorian #19thCentury #CivilWarHistory #Frontliners
“Wound Man” is an illustration which first appeared in European surgical texts during the Middle Ages. It laid out schematically the various wounds a person might suffer in battle or in accidents, often with surrounding or accompanying text stating treatments for the these injuries. This particular “Wound Man” dates to the 15th century and is part of the Wellcome Collection in London.
Which “wound” are you today?!
#histodons #introduction #followback #weird #history #histmed #histsci
ESCAPABLE BURIAL CHAMBER built by Thomas Pursell for him and his family. The ventilated vault can be opened from the inside by a handwheel attached to the door. Pursell was buried there in 1937, and (so far) has never reemerged.
If you're new to #Mastodon and looking for people to follow, look no further for #WeirdHistory and #MedicalHistory!
#TwitterMigration #twitter #Introductions #TIL #HistMed #TheMoreYouKnow #FollowBack
#DYK that COFFIN COLLARS like this were invented to thwart bodysnatchers in the early 19th century? The collar was fixed around the neck of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin, making it nearly impossible to remove the body from its grave. Bodysnatchers (or "Ressurectionists") stole bodies to sell to anatomists and medical schools during this period.
Follow me for more medical history!
Obstetric Phantom, 18th century. The wood and leather model was used to teach medical students, and possibly midwives, about childbirth. It came from the Hospital del Ceppo in Pistoia, near Florence, founded in 1277. Photo: Science Museum.
#Histodons #HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #Midwife
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#histodons #childrensbooks #histmed #histsci #illustration #plague
GRAVEYARD GUN (c.1820) - used to prevent bodysnatchers from stealing corpses to sell to anatomists. Set at the foot of a grave, the gun would have had three tripwires around it. One such gun reportedly killed a grieving father by accident. Coffin collars, fixed around the necks of a corpse and bolted to the bottom of a coffin, were also used to keep bodies in their graves.
Follow me for more #WeirdHistory!
#HistMed #HistSci #TIL #TheMoreYouKnow #Histodons #Introduction #Histodon #History
This wax model from the 19th century shows the internal structure of the brain, complete with its protective covering, the meninges. Wax models like this were used for teaching anatomy to medical students at a time when it was difficult to find bodies to dissect. They are an example of the combination of art and science that often characterized this period. Photo: Wellcome Collection.
#SciArt #ScienceMastodon #Histodons #Histodon #history #WeirdHistory #WeirdFacts #HistMed #HistSci #MedMastodon
A skeleton stands with a scythe and hourglass on this entrance token to the Hortus Medicus - a medicinal garden used by surgeons and pharmacists. Whilst the skeleton, scythe and hourglass are reminders of death, we can also see plants recalling life and also the garden which the token granted access to. late 17th cent (Rijksmuseum) #MementoMori #HistMed #MedMastodon #history #17thcentury #histodons
Did you know that for centuries, a “gossip” was a woman who attended her pregnant daughter’s, sister’s, or friend’s delivery? The word was a corruption of “god-sib” or “god-sibling,” meaning “sister in the Lord.” The gossips offered emotional and physical support to mother and midwife. It was only later that the term took on a derogatory meaning.
This remarkably detailed wax anatomical model (c.1787) is now housed at the Javier Puerta Museum.
A crowded operating theater, c.1899. Often times, the theater would be so packed, that the floor around the patient had to be cleared before an operation could commence.
Medical voyeurism was nothing new. It arose in the dimly lit anatomical amphitheaters of the Renaissance, where, in front of transfixed spectators, the bodies of executed criminals were dissected as an additional punishment for their crimes.
You can learn more in my book #TheButcheringArt.
Ancient Roman lead pollution in Greenland ice cores. The major source of ancient atmospheric lead was the smelting of lead-silver ores (galena). Lead pollution plummeted around AD 165, coincident with the Antonine plague (possibly smallpox), and failed to recover during the late Roman Empire, which featured the Cyprian plague in AD 249-262, political instability, foreign invasions, and a deteriorating climate, with the end of the Roman Climate Optimum. #histmed #medhist https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1721818115
Marie Curie's notebooks, which are radioactive and must be stored in a lead-lined box in the Bibliothèque Nationale. Curie’s corpse is also radioactive. Her coffin is lined in an inch of lead. Both will remain radioactive for 1,500+ years.
#HistSci #ScienceMastodon #MedMastodon #science #scientist #HistoryOfScience #HistMed #WomenInStem #TIL #TheMoreYouKnow #WeirdHistory
Wax Vanitas (c.1700) - intended to remind us of the certainty of death. One side features a skull with insects feasting on decaying flesh. The other side resembles Queen Elizabeth I. It reads: “vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
This object is from the Wellcome Collection in #London.
#HistMed #MementoMori #HistSci #Histodons #Museums #WeirdHistory #MuseumObject #SciArt #Queen
“One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s, which contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, and alcohol. In 1934, the FDA ruled that the claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading, and the remaining stock was destroyed.
#HistMed #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #TIL #WeirdHistory #Weird #histodons #Medical #MedicalHistory #History #HstSci #FF #FollowBack #DYK #Pharma #chemiverse #chemistry #Flu
This frieze from Fulton County, Georgia shows "Medicine's battle with Death." Note the rod with two snakes. Many mistake it for the Rod of Asclepius (the traditional symbol of healing). However, this is the Caduceus, symbol of commerce. A common error in the USA.
#histodon #medicine #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon #HistMed #HistSci #SciArt #mastodon #introduction #Historian #TwitterMigration #FF #FollowBackFriday #FollowFriday
This is a recipe for disaster in so many ways.
NYC Will Hospitalize More Mentally Ill People Involuntarily.
"The effort will involve hospitalizing people involuntarily, even if they do not pose an immediate risk of harm to others."
#disability #histmed
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/nyregion/nyc-mentally-ill-involuntary-custody.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&fbclid=IwAR2OzFjTWa895yHz4Mii40a5lu86XiytyF9-oRkkAt9QNIlY1sze3uBBZlg
Oldest-surviving anatomical theatre, located in Padua. Built in 1594.
At the centre is a table on which human and animal dissections took place. Around this table are several tiers with railings, where students or other observers could stand. Over the entrance to the theatre is the Latin inscription: “hic est locus ubi mors gaudet succurrere vitam,” (roughly translated: "this is the place where death delights to help the living.”)
Photo: Rolando Paolo Guerzoni.
This is the final stage of tetanus when the nerves fire continuously and the body contorts into an agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. In addition, the mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark of the disease, lockjaw. An unnerving and unintentional grin that exposes the teeth, known as risus sardonicus, also appears as a result from contracted facial muscles.
This 19th-century painting by the surgeon Charles Bell now hangs in @surgeonshall in Edinburgh. #histmed #MedMastodon
The hollow hypodermic needle was invented by Alexander Wood in 1853 and allowed drugs to be injected in the body under the skin. Accompanied by different length needles, this example is made from silver with a glass barrel. Unlike modern syringes, which use a plunger, this syringe works by turning the screw at the top to inject the liquid. The name “Mathieu," a French surgical instrument maker, is punched into the syringe.
#histmed #histodons #histsci #museum #TIL #MedMastodon #ScienceMastodon
In my #introduction I mentioned other types of memento mori - here is an interesting example which reminded the owner of their own mortality and ‘protected’ them at the same time. This cheerful skull-shaped silver pomander was believed to protect the bearer against miasma (foul smelling air). It opens to reveal four compartments for strong-smelling substances. Early 17th cent (Metropolitan Museum NY) #MementoMori #histmed #medicine #MedMastodon #histsci #histodons #EarlyModern #skull