Sometime in the 1880s an unidentified young woman drowned in Paris’s Seine River. A morgue worker made a plaster mold of her face, which became famous and was mass-produced as a decorative item. The face of Resusci-Annie, the common CPR training dummy, is modeled after the Unknown Woman of the Seine.

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The Strange, Grisly History of the First Blood Transfusion

Across many cultures, humans have regarded blood as a substance with important regenerative properties since long before blood transfusions became feasible as a form of medical therapy. The idea of transferring new blood to a sick person to restore his or her health is quite old, but until the