A drawer of antique glass eye fragments
Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
via The Guardian
A new slideshow from The Guardian highlights some of the wonderful medical artifacts found at the new "Brought to Life" website.
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Fucking eyeballs!
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Eye caramba! A glass eye pic taken by yrs truly down at HMNH recently (not as nice as the one you posted).
I am probably revealing more about the sick sense of humor which runs through my family than I should, but my grandfather (a small town family doctor) used to have a tie tack made from his grandmother's glass eye. My mother hates that story; I personally wish that it had not been lost some years ago.
First time visitor to the site, by the way, and I really like the direction you are going. Keep up the good work.