The view from the south is beautiful. It's near Independence Avenue, and you can turn around and see the Washington Monument.
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Fred Pete - May 20, 2009 11:01:26 am PDT #20431 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
tommyrot - May 20, 2009 11:10:27 am PDT #20432 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Medgadget unboxed a beautiful and horrifying 1800s surgical kit, owned by "Dr. Geo L. Shearer (an ancient relative of one of your editors), who practiced medicine in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1878."
The set contains the basic surgical tools which would have been needed to perform emergency surgery by way of amputation and this is not an uncommon configuration. The essential tools for this would usually comprise of a Liston knife or knives which had long straight razor sharp blades polished steel blades for cutting through the muscle. A capital saw (the large one) was for sawing through weight bearing bones. The forceps and smaller knives would have been used for trimming the muscle and skin in such a way as to produce flap. The needles were used to sew the flap of skin and muscle in place over the bone stump. There would also have been a tourniquet for applying pressure around the limb to temporarily cutting off the blood supply.
Whitefont for gross medical stuff....
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - May 20, 2009 11:28:26 am PDT #20433 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
gross medical stuff....
As part of a course I've been taking in medical sociology, my class went to a local medical history museum a couple of weeks ago. They recreated an amputation without anaesthetic for us. In quite some graphic detail. Fun.
ETA: When I say recreated, I mean with drama and film. Not a literal recreation. Fortunately. I would not have volunteered. But that's just me.
JZ - May 20, 2009 11:29:45 am PDT #20434 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Seekrit note to Hec: RESPECT THE WHITEFONT.
amych - May 20, 2009 11:30:06 am PDT #20435 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
::is a sucker for gross 19th-century medical details, but feels that font color=white should be amputated without anaesthetic::
Theodosia - May 20, 2009 11:30:42 am PDT #20436 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
They recreated an amputation without anaesthetic for us. In quite some graphic detail. Fun.
But not nearly as much fun for the intern who drew the short straw, I bet.
tommyrot - May 20, 2009 11:43:14 am PDT #20437 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Ron Reagan's response to Rush Limbaugh's making fun of Nancy Pelosi's appearance:
Limbaugh hasn't had a natural erection since the Nixon Administration; think he's compensating for something? Now, I wouldn't pick on him for any of this stuff, not his blubbiness, not his man-boobs, not his inability to have a natural erection -- none of that stuff -- to me, off limits until! until! -- Mr. Limbaugh, you turn that sort of gun on somebody else -- once you start doing that, you're fair game, fat boy. Absolutely, you jiggly pile of mess. You're just fair game, and you're going to get it, too. [Laughs] You'd better watch what you say, Limbaugh, because it can come back the other way.
Jesse - May 20, 2009 12:04:44 pm PDT #20438 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I just got the funniest email from my Big Boss about how she basically elbowed Al Sharpton aside so she could meet Michelle Obama. Good times.
Burrell - May 20, 2009 12:33:23 pm PDT #20439 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
That is kinda great, Jesse. I want to be your Big Boss.
DH was making fun of the President of Notre Dame for looking so happy to be standing next to Obama, but I have to say, if I were standing next to him I'd have a big ol' grin myself.
Sheryl - May 20, 2009 1:22:05 pm PDT #20440 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
It warmed up a bit today. Now it's more like typical May weather here.