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The gallery of medical exhibits.
Venice, Italy

Scuola Grande di San Marco

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.
A relief of surgical instruments.
Nagoa Ash Shatb, Egypt

Temple of Kom Ombo

One of its engravings is believed to be among the first representations of medical and surgical instruments.
<em>Starry Night</em>, Staff Pick 2017. This image shows hippocampal neurons after two days in culture.
brain collections

When Neuroscientists Become Artists

Beauty and brains.
Anika Burgess August 9, 2017
mummies

Was an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh a Giant?

Sa-Nakht may be the oldest known case of acromegaly.
Natasha Frost August 7, 2017
Zodiac Man, 1522
objects of intrigue

When Physicians Used Lunar Signs to Diagnose Patients

Meet the Zodiac Man.
Michael Waters August 7, 2017
A truck at the M*A*S*H shooting location.
Agoura Hills, California

M*A*S*H Filming Location

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.
Ronald Ross Memorial
Kolkata, India

Ronald Ross Memorial

A monument to the British doctor who connected mosquitoes to malaria.
Vilcabamba riverside art.
Vilcabamba, Ecuador

Vilcabamba

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.
Coca tea
Cusco, Peru

Museo de la Coca (Coca Museum)

A fascinating little museum all about the rich history of Peru’s famous plant.
The deathstalker scorpion's venom is used to identify brain tumor cells.
science

The World Now Has a Scorpion-Milking Robot

Extracting venom for medical research just got a whole lot safer and easier.
Kelsey Kennedy July 3, 2017
The prosthetic toe.
archaeology

Found: A 3,000-Year-Old Prosthetic Toe

It's one of the oldest prosthetic devices ever discovered.
Sarah Laskow June 21, 2017
An astrological instrument used by the monk.
Sainshand, Mongolia

Danzanravjaa Museum

Hidden treasures belonging to Mongolia's most revered and multi-talented monk spent decades buried in the Gobi desert.
Wiggle, wiggle!
science

Scientists Can Wiggle a Mouse's Whiskers With Electrical Fields

The work could lead to treatments for depression and epilepsy.
Kelsey Kennedy June 2, 2017
The newest innovation in burn treatment?
science

Brazilian Doctors Are Using Fish Skin to Treat Burn Victims

It might not be pretty, but it is effective.
Eric Grundhauser May 26, 2017
The barge Marsden rode down the river Lena.
exploration

The Scandalous Life of Nurse and Adventurer Kate Marsden

She spent 11 months trekking to Siberia to find a cure for leprosy, but her love life overshadowed everything.
Sarah Laskow May 26, 2017
Beware quacks.
medicine

What's Kept the Society Against Quackery Going for 137 Years

"We are trying hard to undermine this undeserved trust of quacks."
Eric Grundhauser May 19, 2017
Diagrams imagining what the Army's population would look like if soldiers died at the same rate as other citizens.
medicine

Florence Nightingale Was Born 197 Years Ago, and Her Infographics Were Better Than Most of the Internet's

The famed nurse was also an early practitioner of marshaling statistics to advance social causes.
Cara Giaimo May 12, 2017
An Elvis Presley-owned prescription bottle and box for Inderal, 1976.
objects of intrigue

There Are People Who Pay Thousands for the Empty Pill Bottles of Dead Celebrities

Stars in question have included Elvis, Truman Capote, Michael Jackson, and Marilyn Monroe.
Eve Kahn May 5, 2017