Internal organs of the Chicken

biomedicalephemera:

Upset rooster is upset.

Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium. 1551.

Thanksgiving would be so much different if you had to kill your own angry rooster. Those bastards go for the eyes.

biomedicalephemera:

Skeleton of the Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)

Superimposed over the basic form of the fowl, to give a better approximation of how the musculature and feathering of the animal is constructed.

The bird; its form and function. C. William Beebe, 1907.

Skeleton of the Chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus)

Superimposed over the basic form of the fowl, to give a better approximation of how the musculature and feathering of the animal is constructed.

The bird; its form and function. C. William Beebe, 1907.

Various developmental deformities of animals

Blasii notes that the two-headed snake was alive when he saw it (and ate a mouse or some other rodent, I’m not sure of the exact translation), the rest are reproductions from plates made by those who encountered the animals.

Fortunius licetus de monstris. Gerardi Blasii, 1665.

DE GALLINA

WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

Historiae animalium vol. III. Conrad Gesner, 1555.

Upset rooster is upset.

Conradi Gesneri medici Tigurini Historiae animalium. 1551.