” This poisons cupboard from the XVIIth century appears under the appearance of a book. There are 11 drawers with silver handles.
Labels indicate us that it contained of the belladone, the datura, etc…..
The flask which we can see in the center of the cupboard has a label which is registered a quotation in Latin, reminding us that every man has to die once (” Statutum is hominibus semel mori “)
The engraving representing a standing skeleton dates 1682.”
People watch the erupting Pacaya volcano in Villa Canales on Friday, June 4, 2010. Guatemala’s Pacaya volcano began a series of eruptions on Thursday, May 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Skeleton of the “Irish Giant,” John Byrne, at the Hunterian Museum in the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London. I wish I could go see this right now.
Jan Stephen van Calcar (disputed) - “Tertia Musculorum Tabula” from Vesalius’ De humani corporis fabrica, 1543
