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..."

Showing posts with label poison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poison. Show all posts
Sunday, March 4, 2012

Hazards of henna

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There is a potentially deadly chemical in some henna and hair dyes that is flying under the radar of most consumers. Para-Phenylenediamine ...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Hope, Sesi, and Watoto

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The photo above is a screen capture of a video I was linked to by e-mail.* With a little research, I was able to determine that this freshl...
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Tycho Brahe

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Yesterday, a team of archaeologists, doctors, chemists and medical anthropologists from Sweden, Denmark, and the Czech Republic raised the 4...
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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Rat bastard

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When American actor Kevin Spacey was asked on Inside the Actor's Studio what his favorite curse word is, he blurted out, " Rat bas...
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Saturday, July 17, 2010

The Fine Art of Poisoning

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Jill Tracy's photo shoot with Michael Garlington , which included "Tea and Taxidermy" ( 1st image ), the cover photo for The B...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Body burden

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On day47 of the unprecedented and unmitigated disaster that is the BP oil spill spoiling our Gulf of Mexico, let's have a depressing loo...
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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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