Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup was a 19th Century remedy used to quiet restless and teething children. It was extremely effective, probably due to the fact that it contained 65mg of pure morphine per ounce.
Rib Shears. It is essential to the cutting of the costochondral margin. It is an instrument to use with extreme care in order to avoid injuries to the lungs and heart.
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Ankyloglossia or tongue tie is a condition in which the bottom of tongue is attached to the floor of the mouth by the lingual frenulum. It limits the mobility of tip of the tongue. Tongue tie can affect feeding, digestion, oral hygiene, and dental health.
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Thumbscrews were a device of torture, first created in medieval Europe. Essentially, they were a vice used to slowly crush the victims thumbs progressively over a period of time. They often also had sharp spikes to pierce the nail bed and inflict further pain.
Norwegian recruitment poster.
“Vår Ære er Troskap” - “Our Honor is Loyalty”
(Source: kampfgruppe, via slightperceptualproblem)
The presence of insects in a corpse is a critical clue towards estimating the time of death for bodies dead for longer periods of time. Because flies rapidly discover a body and their development times are predictable under particular environmental conditions, the time of death can be calculated by counting back the days from the state of development of flies living on the corpse.
Generalised fly life cycle
Eggs
- present in clumps of up to 300
- laying to hatching takes 1 day
Larva - 1st instar
- initially feeds on fluid exuded from the body
- migrates into body
- hatching to first moult takes 1 day
Larva - 2nd instar
- moves around in maggot mass
- first moult to second moult takes 1 day
Larva - 3rd instar
- still moves in mass
- greatly increases in size
- second moult to pre-pupa takes 2 days
Pre-pupa
- migrates away from the corpse seeking a suitable pupation site, (usually in soil)
- does not feed
- transforms into pupa
- pre-pupa to pupa takes 4 days
Pupa
- resides within puparium
- undergoes transformation from larval body form adult fly
- does not feed
- pupa to emergence takes 10 days
Adult fly
- mates on emergence from pupa
- feeds on protein from body fluids
- lays eggs on corpse
- emergence to egg laying takes 2 days
These development times are generalised. They vary depending on the species and the temperature.
