You ’re looking at one of five known X - rays of Hitler ’s head . The radiograph is just one of 17 - million rarefied , intriguing , and often - bizarre item housed in the theU.S. National Library of Medicine , the largest aesculapian subroutine library on Earth . We ’ve got a gallery .
This special figure is part of a larger medical dossier on Hitler that was tack by U.S. military intelligence following World War II , and one of the 450 figure of speech featured in Hidden Treasure — a Quran published yesterdayin observance of the National Library of Medicine ’s 175th anniversary .
If you ’re even remotely interested in historic scientific discipline and/or medical oddities , it looks like you ’ll really enjoy this loudness ( if you ’re conversant withPhiladelphia ’s Mütter Museum , you ’ll find Hidden Treasures ’s subject topic to be in a similar nervure ) . Over on Wired , Betsy Mason has put togethera great gallery of some standout items from the Holy Writ , including the image up top . You ’ll find the complete galleryhere , but we ’ve included a few selections below to give you a taste of the awing aesculapian weirdness that wait you .
Military Intelligence Service Center , United States Army , European Theater
This is one of five known X - rays of Hitler ’s head , part of his medical records compiled by American military intelligence after the German ’s deliver and declassified in 1958 . The record also include doctor ’s reports , diagram of his teeth and nose and electrocardiograms .
Eugène - Louis Doyen with J.-P. Bouchon and R. Doyen ; heliotypes by E. Le Deley
This amazing ledger is fill with photographs of human body that had been scientifically mummified and then sawed into slash to reveal the figure within . The mental process , which Parisian surgeon Eugène - Louis Doyen nickname megatomy , was a radical departure from survive anatomical survey . His piece of work was a herald to today ’s popularBody Worldsexhibitions of plastinated slices of human cadavers , though Doyen ’s attempts to publicly present images of his anatomic slices were met with protestation .
Mansur ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Yusuf ibn Ilyas
The skeleton depicted … from this early book of anatomy is viewed from the back with the head hyperextended so that the mouth is at the top of the pageboy - a posture suggestive of a dissection tabular array . Squatting figures such as this were the dominant model for anatomic exemplification in the Moslem humans until the creation of European models .
James T. White & Co.
This life - sized fold - out mannikin of the human body was market for at least 20 years . The model ’s flaps correspond to rag topics such as the circulatory scheme , the brain and uneasy system , the skeleton and muscles , genital disease and the physiology of replication ( male and female ) , first help , and the dangers of corset ( seeable in the far right ) .
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