An autopsy photograph showing a stab wound to the heart.
A victim’s likelihood to survive a stab to the heart depends heavily on the location of the wound; peircing the aorta or severing a vein almost always results in heavy bleeding and rapid death for the victim.
Pastel portraits done by Henry Tonks, an artist and former surgeon who drew the patients of plastic surgeon Harold Gillies during World War One.
Gillies reconstructed the faces of 11,572 soldiers during the war. His and Tonks’s contribution was immense. Yet the public was uneasy with the work done first at Aldershot and later at the Queen’s Hospital in Sidcup, Kent. (…) Tonks described his drawings as “dreadful” and not fit for public consumption. He insisted they were medical illustrations, not art.
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