A long overdue update on the magic lantern slides that I acquired at auction, originally from the marvellous J. A. Fairfax Fozzard, the previous Cambridge University professor of Anatomy. I have previously written about his studies of how a chicken lays an egg, and pictures of incubating some weird alien parasite (or possibly just puppies). Now I have finally put the whole set of medical slides online. Unfortunately, I can't label them, as in most cases the slides aren't labe

Channel Four made the first televised autopsy with Dr Gunther von Hagen's in 2002. There was much criticism by people who I can only guess pretended to be shocked that a programme called "The Autopsy" and had explicit warnings on at the beginning and throughout, then contained images of a real dead body. (I actually believe that most of them didn't even watch it, but disagreed with the principle of the general public being able to see a dead body. They may even disagree with