Quigley's Cabinet

Being a visual and verbal chronologue of my peculiar life, foremost my research interests—death and the anatomical body—and travels and people I've met in pursuit of same; my collecting interests—fossils, postmortem photographs, weird news, and new acquisitions to my “museum”; and (reluctantly) my health, having been diagnosed with MS in 1990. "Satisfying my morbid curiosity and yours..."

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Sunday, March 21, 2010

Vitruvian people

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No doubt you are familiar with the 1st image, even if you don't know its formal name. This version of Vitruvian Man was drawn by Renais...

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Follow-ups

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Follow-ups 12/9/09 Reader Megan brought this to my attention: a mutant parakeet - the opposite of the bald parrot pictured in this post! And...

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Follow-ups

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Cloaca 11/17/09 Today is World Toilet Day ! I used the opportunity to contact Virginia Gardiner, inventor of the LooWatt , to give her my re...

Friday, November 13, 2009

Follow-ups

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A more modest list of follow-ups... Conjoined twins 11/5/09 Reader Sandra Konigmacher suggested this link , which offers antique anatomica...

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Follow-ups

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Mexican novelist Mario Bellatin wearing one of his designer prostheses. I want to follow up on my posts, but the news items and comments are...

Monday, August 17, 2009

Leonardo's lion

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A mechanical lion invented by Leonardo da Vinci to entertain French king Francois I (1494-1597) has just been recreated at the Chateau de Cl...

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Dissection by Leonardo da Vinci

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In his notebooks , Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1509) makes reference to dissecting ten human bodies. This is credible, though it can't be c...

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Quigley's Cabinet: Chris Quigley has been reviewing morbid books since receiving an MA in 2007 from Georgetown University, where she has worked since 1986. As of June 2009, she is on long-term disability leave. She delivered the keynote address at the first Museum of Funeral Customs symposium (Springfield, Illinois), consulted with the producers of the National Geographic Channel’s Mummy Road Show, and authored 6 morbid books of her own - Death Dictionary, The Corpse, Modern Mummies, Skulls and Skeletons, Conjoined Twins, and Dissection on Display - all published by McFarland & Co.

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