Food for Thoughts – IDEAS in WORDS, IMAGES, and MEDICINE

Left third metacarpal from Dic. etruscus (Falc.)

Location: Teyler Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands

Keywords: METACARPAL BONE HAND CARPUS WRIST DIGIT FINGER

Les Romains de la Decadence (Roman Decadence)

Author: Couture Thomas - (1815-1879)

Location: Orsay Museum, Paris, France

Keywords: CULTURE ROMAN DECADENCE FEAST ORGY FOOD WINE ALCOHOL WOMEN SEX LAX RELAX LASSITUDE LANGUOR LANGUID LANGUAGE LINGUA ADRENERGIC ALLERGY ANERGY COLLLINERGIC ERG ERGON ENERGY GHER ORG ORGAN ORGASM ORGANISM ORGANIZATION ORGANON ORK SYNERGETIC SYNERGY WORK

Marble bust of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Year: 160 BC

Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

Member of the Ringling Circus Team

Location: Ringling Circus Museum, Sarasota, FL, USA

Keywords: DWARF ACHONDROPLASIA CHONDROSKELETAL NANISM SHORT STATURE MACROCEPHALY MEGALOCEPHALY MIDGET GENE DOMINANT MUTATION CHONDROSKELETAL DYSPLASIA BONE CARTILAGE FACIES SHORT LIMB FOREHEAD PROMINENCE SADDLE NOSE

Monk and Nun

Year: 1625

Location: Catarijneconvent Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Keywords: ALCOHOL INHIBIT SEDA SEDUCTION TERATO ABORT WINE SEX SEXUAL FETUS PRIEST MONK NUN FACILITATE MOTHER

Pero as an emblem of Justice and Roman charity (Caritas)

Year: 1807

Author: Goujon Jean

Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Keywords: MERCY CHARITY CHARM CARITAS ADOPT NURTURE NURSE NURTURE HISTORY ROME JUSTICE JUDGMENT

Pied de meuble en forme de protome de griffon

Keywords: GRIFFIN GRAPH GRASP GRIFO FAUCE FAUCET SPOUT MUZZLE NOSE THROAT GRYPHON AMAZON SCYTHIA UKRAINE WOMEN BEAUTY

Portrait d'un flutiste borgne

Year: 1566

Author: Francaise Ecole

Location: Louvre Museum, Paris, France

Keywords: TUERTO LUSCUS LUSCULUS ONE-EYED BLIND EYE MONOCULAR BULGARIA BORIS BASIL EMPEROR BYZANTIUM

Still Life with Dead Game, Fruits and Vegetables in a Market

Year: 1614

Author: Snyders Frans - (1579-1657)

Location: Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Stilleben mitbauchiger Flashe (still life with bauch or bulging or belly like bottle)

Author: Vallayer - Coster Anne - (1744 -1846)

Location: Gemaldgallerie, Berlin, Germany