Vintage x-ray images

I love the shapes of the skeletons of things. And of course documentation of medical oddities is endlessly fascinating. I could spend days in the Mutter Museum.

So today, I wanted to post more images from the National Museum of Health and Medicine's public archive of US Army medical imagery. This time, vintage x-rays.

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The first two are beautiful images of things that are usually hidden on the insides of us (and a rattle snake).






This is, apparently, a grenade embedded in someone's forehead, taken during the Vietnam War:




And this, one of the more disturbing but visually interesting things I've seen lately, is the after-effects of self-mutilation with graphophone needles: