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WAR IN OUR HUMAN TRENCHES

The captions shows the dramatic encounter, in the liver, of our unsung heroes, the immune cells, and an invading parasite, the trypanosome. Each side bears an impressive arsenal of chemical weapons that will define at the end the unset, or not, of the Sleeping Sickness. 

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Springer Medicine
Springer Medicine is part of Springer Verlag, a global publishing company. They have created a series of magnificent anatomical illustrations to accompany their medical publications.

Photo caption: Abdominal cavity, computer artwork. The spine is at right, with the aorta, the main artery of the body, at its left. At upper centre is one of the kidneys, which filter waste products from the blood. To its left is the spleen, which is part of the immune system. At centre is the small intestine, with the large intestine at left. Arteries are red, veins are blue, nerves are orange and lymph vessels are yellow.

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The gray substance of the medulla oblongata and trapezium Dean, John, M.D, 1864

The principal object in view, in the following memoir, has been to give the entire topography of the medulla oblongata and trapezium, with illustrations from a series of photographs.

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Proportion der Menschen und Rosse extrahirt aus Heinrich Lautensacks Circkels und Richtschheyts, auch der Perspektiva und Propotion der Menschen, kurze, doch gründliche Unterweisung - Staatsbibliothek Bamberg JH.Msc.Art.6. Lautensack, Heinrich (Kunsthandwerker), 1727

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Anatomische Tabellen, Kulmus, Johan Adams

via: KOARA

Paul Pfurtscheller. Anatomy of the Honey Bee

via: Sammlungen der Humboldt University

Time for birth?

If a baby waited until its brain was fully developed before birth, it would be in the womb for nearly two years. By then, its head would be too large to fit through its mother’s pelvis. So there is a ‘trade-off’, which has enabled humans to keep both their large brains and upright posture: we are born with underdeveloped brains. Although we are born with most of our brain cells, the connections between them are not completed until the age of two.

Photo from: Boston Science Museum

Life size model Cow

via: Universitaets Sammlungen

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The “Medical Venus” discomposed and showing a fetus in the uterus - note the fetus is fully formed and not embryonic
(Specola Collection, University of Florence)

via: Museo di Storia naturale di Firenze

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from the Mütter Museum

Model of a Skull according to Spurzheim and Gall

via: Universitaets Sammlungen

Pancreas

1. Bile ducts:
2. Intrahepatic bile ducts,
3. Left and right hepatic ducts,
4. Common hepatic duct,
5. Cystic duct,
6. Common bile duct,
7. Ampulla of Vater,
8. Major duodenal papilla
9. Gallbladder,
10-11. Right and left lobes of liver.
12. Spleen.
13. Esophagus.
14. Stomach. Small intestine:
15. Duodenum,
16. Jejunum
17. Pancreas:
18: Accessory pancreatic duct,
19: Pancreatic duct.
20-21: Right and left kidneys (silhouette).

The anterior border of the liver is lifted upwards (brown arrow). Gallbladder with Longitudinal section, pancreas and duodenum with frontal one. Intrahepatic ducts and stomach in transparency.

via: Wikipedia

Mittheilungen aus dem K. Zoologischen Museum zu Dresden.
Dresden : Verlag von R. v. Zahn, 1875-1878.

via: Botanicus

Mittheilungen aus dem K. Zoologischen Museum zu Dresden.
Dresden : Verlag von R. v. Zahn, 1875-1878.

via: Botanicus