Ramage"...an axis of innumerable relationships..." Jorge Luis BorgesA Demon!- March 31, 2004 Albeit a very elegant one... From Costumes pour op&233;ras et ballets, one of the thousand treasures in the Gallica Anthologie from the Biblioth&232;que Nationale de France....http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/03/a_demon.html Thorazine- March 29, 2004 detail from Smith Kline &38; French pharmaceutical company ad for Thorazine, 1962. and here's the copy: Adverts for psychiatric drugs from the american gallery of psychiatric art. There's also a great French ad from the '90s which appears to...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/03/thorazine.html Asylums- March 28, 2004 "Let the patient whom you bring, distinctly know where he (or she) is going. A patient seldom forgets being deceived in that particular; and it affects many injuriously, when they hold it as a grievance afterwards." The Alabama Insane Hospitals...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/03/asylums.html Gross Specimens- March 28, 2004 And we do mean gross (definitely not for the squeamish). Deformed foetuses from the Gross Specimens Collection, of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Department of Pathology. Via ultimate insult....http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/03/gross_specimens.html Abandoned Places- March 27, 2004 The photography of Geoffrey van Beylen, at Exposed Photography, particularly the sculpture factory. Via penny dreadful....http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/03/abandoned_place.html Under my skin- March 26, 2004 An unknown atlas of human anatomy, beautifully reproduced and indexed in detail at the Univerity of Iowa. the left eye of the dissected face, with its muscles and nerves. "This atlas was found without any indication of author, publisher or...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/03/under_my_skin.html Cable news- March 25, 2004 After the first messages were transmitted over the Atlantic Cable in August 1858 between Valentia, Ireland, and Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, September 1st was declared as the official day of celebration in New York City. "The street was clear as noonday,...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/03/history_of_the_.html The Experimentalization of Life- March 22, 2004 Three images from a photographic album of phychological instruments compiled by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1895. a spinning-chair: Phantome of the course of the fibres in the human brain and spinal marrow: a complication instrument: From The Virtual Laboratory. There...http://ramage.typepad.com/ramage/2004/03/the_evperimenta.html |