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The Careful and the Careless led To join the living and the dead.
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Art, Fun, & Nonsense.
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The Careful and the Careless led To join the living and the dead.
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The Philadelphia Physician-Factory. James Albert Wales, Chromolithograph, 1880. Subject: Medical Education.
Depictions spanning almost a whole millennium – in chronological order – of comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars. (My choices here aren’t in order!)
Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833, from E. Weiß’s Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888) – Source.
Astronomy: a meteor shower in the night sky. Mezzotint, after 1783 – Source.
Augsburger Wunderzeichenbuch, Folio 52 (erschrocklicher Comet, 1300) – Source.
You can see many more wonderful depictions at The Public Domain Review.
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Not all the Statesman’s power or art Can turn aside Death’s certain Dart.
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A Dreadful Attack Of “Presidential Fever” In The U.S. Senate. Frederick Burr Opper, Chromolithograph, 1883. Subject: U.S. Politics, Infectious Disease, Quinine, Foot Baths. For a full list of the Senators, see here.
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Such mortal Sport the Chase attends: At Break Neck Hill, the Hunting Ends.
Aaagh. An unconscionable thing to do to an infant. Click for full size.
Circumcision. Hendrick Goltzius, Engraving, 1594. Subject: Circumcision, Religion.
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Fungus, at length, contrives to get Death’s Dart into his Cabinet.
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FALLACY of the ORGANIC THEORY of DOCTORS, ILLUSTRATED-BY HYGEISTS. Anonymous, Lithograph coloured. Subject: Proprietary Remedies, James Morison (1770-1840), James Graham, The Lancet, Thomas Wakely, Hygeian System, Universal College of Health, Baker vs. Lowe (1845)
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TIME & DEATH their Thoughts impart On Works of Learning & of Art.
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Ague & Fever. Thomas Rowlandson, Aquatint, colored, with ink & watercolor border, 1792. Subject: Ague, Fever, Demons & devils, Prescription of drugs.
PrickNoun.
1: a mark or shallow hole made by a pointed instrument.
2a: a pointed instrument or weapon b: a sharp projecting organ or part.
3: an instance of pricking or the sensation of being pricked: as a: a nagging or sharp feeling of remorse, regret, or sorrow b: a slight sharply localized discomfort <the prick of a needle>.
4: usually vulgar: penis.
5: usually vulgar: a spiteful or contemptible man often having some authority.
[Origin: Middle English prikke, from Old English prica; akin to Middle Dutch pric prick.]
(before 12th Century).
“Stone shook his head. “Rapid’s not going to be the Wild West for too much longer, girls.” I could tell Madame was included in that “girls,” and it put my back up. She had years and miles on Dyer Stone, and brains to boot. But he had a prick, and inherited money, and a prick. I guess that gave him the right to lord it over her. – Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear.
Now begins The English Dance of Death by Thomas Rowlandson. These are quite different from the much earlier Dance Of Death series recently finished. Click for full size.
