the japanese gallery of psychiatric art (weird pharma labels)
via everlasting blört
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
Paracelsus
Presumed portrait of Paracelsus, attributed to the school of Quentin Matsys
Paracelsus gained a reputation for being arrogant, and soon garnered the anger of other physicians in Europe. He held the chair of medicine at the University of Basel for less than a year; while there his colleagues became angered by allegations that he had publicly burned traditional medical books....
He then wandered Europe, Africa and Asia Minor, in the pursuit of hidden knowledge....
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
stray bullets
Potheads rejoice! Drugs that encourage the growth of new neurons in the brain are now headed for clinical trials; There are six places where it's really bad to be a woman; Sir Charles Shults found obvious changes in the Phoenix images; and the UAV Sniper Drone is an unmanned flying gun. (via)