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Didja see this? It’s the newest photo of the Loch Ness Monster. Hit the link if you care.
I never thought it was all that outlandish that there might be something big and uncatalogued in a remote Scottish lake. I never thought it was all that interesting, either.
I mean, unless it really is something awesome like a leftover plesiosaur.
But look here at the famous photo of Nessie, in its not so famous uncropped state. That doesn’t look much like a honking big dinosaur, does it?
That photo is known as the surgeon’s photo, because the doctor who took it refused to be identified by name for years.
On a more interesting note, a Google Images search on “surgeon’s photo” turned up a link to the Burns Archive of Historic Photos. From which is derived this CBS News slideshow of cancer images from the 19th C.
Warning: gross. Fascinating, but gross. Medical books always make me feel intensely grateful to my boring functional old bod.
August 29, 2013 — 9:45 pm
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