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For today's #CreepyCollections challenge, this Victorian #postcard advertisement for Burdock Blood Bitters tonic almost adds a hint of Demogorgon to its claims to cure dyspepsia and other ailments. The illustration shows a young child peeking from behind a picture of an old man, possibly a rather unsettling depiction of his younger self.

Take a look, it's in a book: a Reading Skeleton! Also known as the "Praying Skeleton" from artist Jacques Gamelin's 'Nouveau recueil d'ostéologie et de myologie' (Toulhouse, 1779), this illustration shows a rear view of a skeleton as it kneels before a shelf of books. The motto reads "Orate ne intretis in tentationem" and has been translated as "Beware, lest ye be led into temptation." Gamelin's combination of #MementoMori with anatomical study in the work's eccentric scenes appealed to both artists and medical students. Visit the link in our bio to learn more on NLM's Historical Anatomies on the Web.

Cline’s Surgery (ca. 1790) is an 18th century manuscript of surgical lectures that cover an extensive range of procedures, including mastectomy, cataract removal, lithotomy, amputation, and tonsillectomy. Henry Cline (1750-1827) was an English surgeon and president of the Royal College of Surgeons. Lecture notes such as these are valuable sources of historical medical information. Visit the link in our bio to view in NLM Digital Collections.

"The news of a strange kind of radiation that defied all standing theories of light & matter—& enabled people to see through opaque objects—had generated worldwide excitement."

How to survive on land and sea (Annapolis, 1943) is a manual that was issued by the U.S. Navy’s Aviation Training Division to trainees during #WorldWar2 as part of the preflight survival-training program. From glacier to desert, aviators learned how to navigate unusual conditions through this program should their carrier be taken down. Accompanied by photographs and illustrations, the comprehensive chapters covered everything from how to use bamboo joints to boil drinking water to instructions on how to climb while being lifted in a Spanish bowline (image 2). A folded map provided information on the vegetative regions of the world (image 3).

Oswald Theodore Avery (1877-1955) was born #OnThisDay 144 years ago in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was a distinguished #bacteriologist and research physician and one of the founders of #immunochemistry. He is best known for his discovery that deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) serves as genetic material. Avery is pictured here looking through a microscope in his lab at the #RockefellerInstitute in the 1920s.

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