Comments on: A Frog for your Boils

A Frog for your Boils

Rumple — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:14:30 -0800

Biomedical Ephemera, or, a Frog for your Boils is "A blog for all biological and medical ephemera, from the age of Abraham through the era of medical quackery and cure-all nostrums. Sometimes featuring illustrations of diseases and conditions of the times, sometimes fascinating ephemeral medical equipment, and sometimes clippings and information about the theories themselves." The archive page is also a useful starting point. via Things Magazine.

By: Foci for Analysis

Foci for Analysis — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:41:04 -0800

Maxillofacial surgery is amazingly creepy. Moar creepiness?

By: peachfuzz

peachfuzz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:05:49 -0800

Oh, wonderful. I was glad to see ivory teaching models. They are so oddly touching. A lot of the stuff on this site is like that for me, thanks for the post!

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:16:01 -0800

I read this as "a frog for your balls". I suspect that would make for a totally different kind of blog.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:32:18 -0800

Horrendously, nightmarishly marvelous! Thanks.

By: oneswellfoop

oneswellfoop — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 16:33:57 -0800

I read it as "boiling a frog".

By: Katjusa Roquette

Katjusa Roquette — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:16:57 -0800

I really liked this blog. I love Old medical illustrations, and well a wonderful time sink.

By: Tesseractive

Tesseractive — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:35:55 -0800

I keep seeing this thread and reading it as, "a Frog for your Balls". Carry on.

By: Pallas Athena

Pallas Athena — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:19:00 -0800

Surely 2 frogs would be a more equitable trade.