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Cervical Spine Copper Engraving from Tabulae Ossium Humanorum (Table of the Human Bones) by Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697 - 1770).
I have been seeing a lot of patients recently with neck and shoulder complaints. Has the workplace-injury monster reared its ugly head on the mass populace?
Two Scoliotic spines on either side of a straight, healthy human spine.
“Ribs and vertebral bodies have been resected bilaterally between the second and the ninth thoracic segments. The periosteum which covered the inner surfaces of the ribs have been preserved in most areas. The anterior longitudinal ligament, with remnants of the intervertebral discs attached, has also been retained in part. The lungs have been inflated and are visible through the intact costal pleura.”
Scoliotic spine from 1868
With this I just have to realize this is someone’s body. They lived in it, like this. That entire fact astounds me …
Study of ancient bones reveal current day infectious disease brucellosis has existed since at least medieval times. (via Scientists crack medieval bone code)
