Clinical Portraits.

The Cabinet archive of vintage medical photographs.




This is the face of disease, but it wasn't always so. It is the face of someone who once lived as you do now, with eyes unfixed and a tongue unboxed by wishing words. It is a countenance that once had a name and personality just like yours, but it all turned to straw a long time ago. The familiarity you behold in this face? The sad frown, or the laugh-at-death jokey shine? You are reflecting the immortal taxidermy that disease applies. »»




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