~ “Ready-Made Ad”, The Liquor Book, by Charles Austin Bates, 1899
“The Germans are the healthiest looking people in the world and you know what beer drinkers they are.”Well, I’m sold! Bring on the pure, perfect beer! Deliver it to my home!
Science!
Forty years in phrenology: embracing recollections of history, anecdote, and experience (1891) by Nelson Sizer at Internet Archive.
“Scientific researches: new discoveries in Pneumaticks! – or an experimental lecture on the Powers of Air”, 1802. Etching by James Gillray.
Gillray is caricaturing the experiments with laughing gas (nitrous oxide) done at the Royal Institution. The lecturer may be Thomas Garnett or Thomas Young. Humphrey Davy is caricatured as the assistant operating the hydraulic bellows filled with laughing gas. The founder of the Institution, Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, is seen standing in the doorway. (source)
Unknown photographer, 1935, Dr. F.G. Benedict’s Apparatus for Measuring Metabolism
(Source: burnedshoes, via bassman5911)
Histoire de la médecine: costumes de médecins durant la peste de 1819 à Marseille by alexisorloff on Flickr.
Science!
Physiognomy
The term was common in Middle English, often written as fisnamy or visnomy (as in the Tale of Beryn: “I knowe wele by thy fisnamy, thy kynd it were to stele”).
Physiognomy’s validity was once widely accepted, and it was taught in universities until the time of Henry VIII of England, who outlawed it (along with ”Palmestrye”) in 1531.
image: Della Porta, Giambattista: De humana physiognomonia
Seems legit.
