Lesser Shades
A compendium of wit and whimsy, the morbid, macabre, and melancholy. Also probably some Star Wars.
Twenty-three year old Viennese woman, before and after contracting cholera
One mid-19th century report describes cholera victims who were “one minute warm, palpitating, human organisms - the next a sort of galvanized corpse, with icy breath, stopped pulse and blood congealed - blue, shrivelled up, convulsed”. Cholera causes profuse vomiting and diarrhoea, dehydrating the body so rapidly and severely that the blood thickens and the skin becomes deathlike and blue.
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(Source: ch0lera)
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Dorothea Tanning
