Gloved hands remove the gauze dressing covering a dehisced (opened) laparotomy wound on the abdomen in an 81 year old female patient after surgery for a diverticular abscess. 

May 18th / 9 notes

Facial scars from neurosurgery in a 40 year old female patient. The surgery involved resection of a meningioma, a tumor (usually non-cancerous) arising from the membrane covering the brain. The patient also had retinoblastomas in infancy, hence is blind in her one eye.

May 18th / 22 notes

I don’t often do these, so it must be good. Follow!

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An x-ray of an aborted fetus. The darker the color, the more mature of the bone development.

May 18th / 37 notes

Adolfo Constanzo studied black magic, the black magic of Palo Mayombe. This was a violent cult that believed spirits of the dead exist in limbo, and if presented with fresh human sacrifices, the power of the Gods can be harnessed. Because of this, Constanzo moved to Mexico and would sell superstitious godfathers protection spells for up to $50,000. But he needed sacrifices of people who had died a violent death; he wanted the victim to die screaming, so usually he would cut off the nose, ears, fingers, toes and the genitals of his victim, partially flat them and then sometimes sodomising them. Their blood would then go into a “cauldron” along with their skull. His final murder was one which lead to his downfall: Mark Kilroy was a medical student and as soon as he went missing, his parents were worried. One on Constanzo’s cult was under the believe he was invisible! And the police simply followed him back to the ranch where the remains of Mark Kilroy were found. Constanzo committed suicide and 14 cultists were sentenced to lengthy jail terms, bringing to obscure cult to an end.

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