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Keeping with the medical theme, pictured here is a 1918 French radiology nurse technician during WWI. This photo was taken during the dormant period of radiology protection, when experts were just beginning to figure out how to protect technicians from harmful x-rays. Source: The Daily Mail
Shown with this ghastly facial apparatus is Kwasi Afari Minta, the most badly burned survivor of the “King’s Cross” fire that occurred in the public transportation tube known as the London Underground in 1987. Read More...
His blood was so thick that it clogged the machine being used to treat him — twice.Koehler et al., Annals of Internal Medicine, 2019A few of the sample vials used to contain the patient’s milky blood for further analysis.
When a 39-year-old German man experienced enough nausea, vomiting, and headaches for him to rush to the emergency room, doctors at the University Hospital of Cologne made a shocking discovery: His blood contained so much fat, it had turned into a thick, milky substance. Read More...
Known as Thonis to the Egyptians and Heracleion to the Greeks, Thonis-Heracleion was a bustling city at the mouth of the Nile River that served as the region's biggest port for centuries before it sank.Long ago, the Egyptian city of Thonis-Heracleion sank into the Mediterranean Sea — and into the misty realm of legend. For more than a millennium, its memory faded as waves lapped overhead until the world wondered if the once proud port, which was known as Thonis to the Egyptians and Heracleion to the Greeks, had ever really existed at all. Read More...
