Specimen Room (The National Museum of Health and Medicine)

[摘要] We are safe for we merely observe. All their suffering neatly contained in vitreous glass jars cataloged in defunct Latin. We are not mourners only voyeurs glutted on the scientific peep show. Jars of limbs grotesquely swollen by filarial worms black piping distended by megacolon piles of hearts rubbery with preservative Dismembered Dissected Desiccated None of it is human. None of it can touch you. You must learn from it extract all knowledge from it like yellow marrow from the bone for the only sin in medicine is not to know.

[学科分类] 呼吸医学