The Visible Human Project

[masterMood]

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Long story short:

These are actual 1mm slices of a prisoner who donated his body to science.

Upon his death his body was quickly rushed to a place where they submerged it in a blue liquid. Using cryogenics they froze the entire body in the liquid.

Next, the frozen block was cut into sections. Those sections were cut into 1 mm slices and then photographed.

This video is a compilation of those images in sequence from head to toe.

Visit the hompage for more images and information about the project.


The Visible Human Project Video

U.S. National Library Of Medicine

If you ever wanted to know what type of research u wanted to do for medicine, here you go!

 

[JohnB79]

I watched that and it was so awesome.... I actually went back and did it frame by frame. I tried to get a few of my friends to watch and they were like *ell no. So now I'm tricking my friends into watching it.

 

[masterMood]

Hey, so how's binghamton?

 

[tharealest]

During my freshman year, a professor who teaches engineering at my school and also does research at my undergrad's med school, showed us a powerpoint presentation of them actually working on that very same project. I remember him telling us how he was a prisoner who had died and agreed to give up his body for medical research, then the professor described cutting him up into thin slices. Then he showed us that same video you had posted.

It seemed like a really neat project, and really made me interested in medical research.

 

[masterMood]

ha ha interesting

 

[solitude]

Crazy stuff!

 

[45408]

that'd be a little weird watching him go into the blade and having parts of him left

 

[watsupdoc15]

purdy cool

 

[Benign_foodtube]

F#ck yeah man! That is awesome! Yeah, I gotta go back and do that frame by frame. I thought for a second it was the digitally-rendered human anatomy book, but that is the visual human project, I think. Which is also cool, but not as cool as this. Wow! Good find!

 

[bluejellybelly]

i saw many of these slices before in my human anatomy book, but it wasn't a prisoner.

 

[45408]

i saw many of these slices before in my human anatomy book, but it wasn't a prisoner.

this isn't the first time they've cut people up 😉

there used to be lots of slices at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago - those were like an inch thick.

 

[masterMood]

I don't quite understand what's goign on in the video though. Why are the slices getting smaller and smaller?


P.S.
Does this remind anyone of calculus infinite discs? lol

 

[DrWorkNeverDone]

very cool!

 

[oniwindu]

this isn't the first time they've cut people up 😉

there used to be lots of slices at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago - those were like an inch thick.

The Mutter Museum in Philly also has slices of the human head from a prisoner who donated his body. I think they were longitunal...I don't remember the time frame of when they actually made the slices, maybe 1930s-40s?? The slices are probably about 0.5-1 inch thick. The museum is small, but it has quite an interesting collection. Some of the medical conditions mentioned in Armand Leroi's book, "Mutants," are here. (The skeleton of Harry Eastlack (his body responded to muscle injury and trauma by growing bone instead of tissue), preserved fetuses with anencephaly, etc)

 

[45408]

I don't quite understand what's goign on in the video though. Why are the slices getting smaller and smaller?


P.S.
Does this remind anyone of calculus infinite discs? lol

you're joking, right? small at the head, big in the middle, and small again at the feet

 

[davedavedave]

i think there was an hbo documentary about this.. but the people i was watching tv with didnt want to see it, so i missed it... anyone watch it?