Scientific Illustration

Left Hand or Anterior Foot. Side View. by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.

Author: Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856.
Title: Description of a Skeleton of the Mastodon Giganteus of North America by John C. Warren M.D.
Imprint: Boston : Printed by J. Wilson and Son, 1852.
Physical Description:
Page: Pl. XII
Call Number: QE882 .U7 W289 1852 Rare Book

Left Hand or Anterior Foot. Front View. by Library & Archives @ Royal Ontario Museum on Flickr.

Author: Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856.
Title: Description of a Skeleton of the Mastodon Giganteus of North America by John C. Warren M.D.
Imprint: Boston : Printed by J. Wilson and Son, 1852.
Physical Description:
Page: Pl. XI
Call Number: QE882 .U7 W289 1852 Rare Book

biomedicalephemera:

Top: Hand of a day-laborer who had been drowned 24 hours prior
Bottom: Hand of a drowned person submerged in running water for several weeks

The process of tissues decomposing and sloughing off in animals generally reaches its peak around three to four weeks, in a moderate climate. However, in running water, the washing away of the acids from the liquefied fats and proteins, and the lack of insect activity, can often significantly retard or alter the decomposition.

Because of this, it can often take several extra weeks for tissues submerged in running water to separate from the body, and when they do separate, they don’t so much slough off when their substrate is consumed, but “slip” off, often in large sheets. The dermis of the hand is well-connected to itself, but less well-connected to its substrate, and as such is often subject to a phenomenon called “gloving” - where the skin slips off in, you guessed it, a “glove”.

Atlas of Legal Medicine. Dr. Eduard von Hofmann, 1898.

mudwerks:

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drfrankscali:

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My friend, colleague, and medical illustrator for my publications snapped another photo. The hand you see is that of Danny Quirk. Done with acrylic and sharpie marker on latex base.

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skullandbone:

wrist bone comparison between human, bear and deer.

Northwest Coast Archeology

jimmysketchbook:

Study of the right hand, using same reference text and materials as the last two posts. These anatomy studies can be a bit morbid at times, it’s sometimes disturbing to think of what we look like without our skin and fat. But doing these type of studies is very important when it comes to illustration, you cannot properly draw something if you don’t understand the way it looks and works.

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cryptobranchus:

Ventral Skeleton of the Hand