In our pop culture saturated world, Grey’s Anatomy is a hugely popular television show featuring McDreamy in its cast.
Prior to the hit TV drama, Gray’s Antomy of the Human Body was a hugely popular book filled with precisely accurate drawings of the human body and all that it entails. The book released in 1918 includes over 1,200 anatomically correct recreations of the organs, muscles, and bones of the body.
Nearly a century prior to Gray’s groundbreaking work, a Japanese physician had the same idea of documenting the human form. Putting a more creepy vibe into the work of Yasukazu Minagaki is the fact that the artist/doctor’s subject’s were executed criminals.
Pink Tentacle has more information about Minagaki and his work here.
Links to more of the images like the ones above and below are here, here and here.
For weird facts about the human body, go here.
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