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on twitter i made a thread of weird-to-amazing shit i saw in a famous medical school’s library. i’m thinking about recreating it

lots of physiognomic studies

perfect, obvs

Extreem despair.

Spurzheim, phrenologist and tonsorial innovator

pregnancy irl

rapture

the work of real not metaphorical bookworms 📕 🐛

the plausible

A true and most Dreadfull discourse of a woman possessed with the Devil: who in the likenesse of a headless Beare fetched her out of her Bedd, and in the presence of seven persons, most straungely roulled her threw three Chambers, and doune a high paire of staires

it was a time of war. of scarcity. of fear and suspicion. and of not a little reckless fucking

at one point the library produced marbled boards and endpapers for its books, and they are breathtaking. i have so many pics of these. 1/3

2/3

This is my favorite. To me it speaks of winter