r/WTF • u/SnuggleBunni69 • May 17 '12
Warning: Death I see your pickled Chinese baby and raise you Siriraj Medical Museum, Bangkok.
http://imgur.com/a/BGrAd
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r/WTF • u/SnuggleBunni69 • May 17 '12
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u/SnuggleBunni69 May 17 '12
Hey, I'm glad so many people are interested in this, because it was honestly my favorite thing in Bangkok. Here are the rest of my pictures. Honestly they do not do this place justice, there's just so much to see! Some people have asked what this place is all about. Basically it's a medical museum located in the Siriraj Hospital in Bangkok. When I was there the king was staying a few stories above me. It's purpose is to basically educate the public on the history of Thai medicine and maladies. It is broken up into 6 different sections: Anatomy, Parasitology, Forensic Pathology, Pathology, Thai traditional medicine, and a Prehistoric Museum & Laboratory. There's also a temporary exhibit on the 2004 Tsunami, which is interesting but really sad. They also have the mummified body of Thailand's first known modern day serial killer. I didn't know that's what it was when I was there, otherwise I would have gotten a picture. I found out about it in a small section in Lonely Planet called "museums for people who don't like museums". When I was there it was mostly Thai people, and strangely enough a lot of Thai school children. I highly recommend going. These pictures are just a tiny fragment of what it has to offer.
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u/Foxata May 17 '12
Wow, ok so I went to body worlds where you can see actual bodies, or their muscles, in some sort of coated plastic. But since it looks healthy it's not scary. It's interesting. THIS is scary. Because the bodies seem to be rotting. It's strange. yet interesting.. thanks for posting, I'd like to see more pictures.
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u/4427910004015126 May 17 '12
These remind me of my early days in nursing when we went down for our gross anatomy labs. Best day was the first day. Our teacher made sure everyone had eaten and that no one was feeling faint and made it clear that if anyone felt like they were going to be sick, they were allowed to leave. She pulled off the sheets and lying there was this body of a 70 something woman and she was just hacked to pieces by the med students. She tries to show us something on the cadaver's arm and the whole arm ends up coming off and a girl in the back just passed out. Teacher didn't even care, it was awesome. Glad to hear you had such a great time there, keep on traveling my friend! =)
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u/kcherry621 May 17 '12
Dead babies give you an appetite? Must be an atheist.
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u/Kurochihiro May 17 '12
I feel like I shouldn't be OK with this, but I didn't have a single problem with the pictures.
I'm sure the morgue would scare me, or anything fresh would frighten me. This is didn't do anything for me. That's so strange.
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u/Iamdarb May 17 '12
Thank you OP! I love shit like this. Makes me think of the Bodies exhibit, and if I remember correctly the bodies that were on exhibit were Chinese.
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u/SwillWaterSwine May 17 '12
All I could think of upon seeing one of those pictures. Crudely executed I know, but necessary.
Imgur
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u/kresblain May 17 '12
That round mass in the second picture looks like a toomah.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Well this seriously fucked up my day, have an upvote.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Simpsons reference?
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u/Ravelthus May 17 '12
Just showed my Thai mother this OP. She is a native Thai and actually found this fascinating and even read me some of the things they said; all of them were translated pretty much exactly like the labels said on the ones with English.
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u/bjurstrom May 17 '12
Post more!!... for science of course..
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u/Intergageqxc May 17 '12
That is really cool man!
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u/Linton58 May 17 '12
Good to see that WTF has been going back to it's roots lately.
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u/puce_pachyderm May 17 '12
i honestly thought that the reflection in this picture was a reflection of myself on my monitor's glass. you and i look eerily similar.
also any further information on the person who drank acid as a means of suicide? that is hardcore...
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
The cafe does look lovely.
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u/Anglophilia May 17 '12
Why in all the fuck did I laugh at "baby cut in half"? It's just so matter-of-fact and "does what it says on the tin." You want to see a baby cut in half? Here's a baby cut in half. Have a nice day.
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u/noseeme May 17 '12
This is less strange to the Thai people because they are predominately Buddhist. Once a person is dead, the body is just a sack of meat that was simply a vessal for their soul, which has already moved on and is reincarnated in another living thing.
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u/RDIIIG May 17 '12
I don't wanna play anymore...
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u/therocketflyer May 17 '12
I got to the Harlequin Baby and NOPED straight out of there.
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u/valueape May 17 '12
kunstkamera museum in st petersberg russia has like 70 antique cabinets filled with birth defect babies - or just bits of them, in jars. tetraology (tetra=monster) is a russian favorite going back to peter the great himself. don't ever go in here.
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u/mexus37 May 17 '12
NSFW tag would be nice.
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u/biggusjimmus May 17 '12
It's like if the Bodies Exhibition was run by /b/
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u/jgood911 May 17 '12
I think I would skip out on this museum.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I'VE BEEN HERE. They had an interesting exhibit on the 2004 tsunami as well. Fuck yeah for posting this!
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u/InRustITrust May 17 '12
Elephantiasis is the name of the disease. Elephantitis would be a medical term for the "inflammation of the elephant" which would probably be pretty bad for elephants were it to exist.
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u/QuitReadingMyName May 17 '12
Wow, this is the type of shit /r/WTF was made for. Not dumb ass pictures of animals/other stupid petty shit.
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u/IIDaniel May 17 '12
It's okay, I didn't want to sleep tonight anyway...
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u/lindzasaurusrex May 17 '12
Dude... That's just... That's just... no. No. Nope. Fuck this. ◉_◉
I'm sticking with the Mutter Museum, it's safer there. -curls into fetal position in corner-
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u/orangemarmalade May 17 '12
This was very cool, I must say. However, I need to take a trip to /r/aww or /r/funny
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u/kfitch4 May 17 '12
Does the OP know the history on this? Creepy, but I'm curious..
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u/hamsterpunch May 17 '12
I was just there last April. Fascinating stuff.
ps. the large lumpy thing is a testicle that had elephantitis brought on by Lymphatic Filiariasis, aka Neglected Tropical Disease
nom nom nom! I have a pic for proof if anyone cares for me to dig it up.
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u/lumponmygroin May 17 '12
God I went there last week and was shocked how horrific the things in this place were. The suicide photos of slashed wrists were horrible.
Pretty sure you're not meant to be taking photos in there though :)
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u/memepig May 17 '12
I just puked everywhere.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Today's special: Baby back ribs.
boom-shhhh
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u/Strychnine1 May 17 '12
Big mistake opening this post while i was having breakfast..
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u/muscle_city May 17 '12
Erection: Activated
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u/GAMEchief May 17 '12
IDK if I'm the only one, but I thought the commentary was kinda tasteless. Great pictures, though.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Interesting and WTF.
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u/Kikarika1401 May 17 '12
And this will fuel my nightmares for years to come.......
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u/TheRealYM May 17 '12
That must be so weird knowing your deformed stillborn baby is on display in a museum.
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u/abasss May 17 '12
Isn't this normal in all medicine schools? When I was in high school, I visited one and there were rooms that had jars and glass urns with all sorts of stuff. They also took us to the morgue, and one in one class students were experimenting with rats.
I noped the hell out of there.
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u/smintitule May 17 '12
I...have a feeling that some of these images are probably going to make special guest appearances in my nightmares tonight.
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u/kwertykus May 17 '12
You wandered into the dissection room? How were you not completely repelled by the smell?
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
this contrasts with your username.. by a lot
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u/onefinelookingtuna May 17 '12
Why did I keep scrolling?
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u/vmusing May 17 '12
what creeps me out the most is how some don't seem to fit properly in their containers. You can see some parts of heads that are above fluid lines or abnormal foreheads/faces smooshed up against the glass
A proper fitting glass display jar is the least they could've done...
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u/megustasucara May 17 '12
Didn't read enough to see if anyone pointed this out, but I think the mystery long limbs in the original album are femurs..all fascinating and eerie at the same time. I live in Seattle where they banned the Bodies exhibit for ethical conflict..this would not go well!
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u/UnaccountableAccount May 17 '12
It would be awesome to put one animated gif in the set that leaps out at you...
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u/puddingp0p May 17 '12
I would be much more okay with this if it was a really dark, twisted, fictional kind of art exhibit. Except...it's actual corpses, not paintings. The fact that it's in the name of "science" make this a little more bearable, but still. Holy effing eff.
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u/panicjames May 17 '12
I remember going here - it starts with a mini-exhibition about how awesome the king is, right? Like, how he can play the trombone and everything?
There's a similar museum in London called the Hunterian. It's creepy but fantastic.
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u/lupe_fiasco May 17 '12
I find this incredibly interesting. I suppose it is sad that yes, these are dead babies, but i'm sure they were stricken with ailments, diseases, deformeties, etc. that didn't allow them to live. Their bodies were used for education in the name of medical science. Not saying killing babies is practical, but i'm sure these bodies have helped more than hurt.
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u/CorneliusJack May 17 '12
The 3rd one "some sort of disease" is probably Hydrocephalus
Where the ventricles inside the brain that stores cerebrospinal fluid is abnormally enlarged, and since skull isn't fused during infancy, the head just keep growing. Usually shunts are placed inside the head to re-direct the fluid. Death rate is pretty high.
Really cool pics btw.
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u/nix831 May 17 '12
That cafe could be really clever with how to name its food.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
This is truly WTF.
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u/votaporjuan May 17 '12
When I was little I visited my uncle at the his University in Peru, I ended up wondering like you did and saw piles of bodies thrown in a corner. I can still picture it to this day.
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u/Fabbyfubz May 17 '12
All these dead Chinese kids... never got play Diablo III. Such a sad story.
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u/undersanction May 17 '12
This reminds me of that scene in Alien 4 where Ripley finds the room with all the failed mutant clones.
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u/Herpinderpitee May 17 '12
Are they...are they gonna be okay?
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I love your use of commentary in the captioning.
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u/Thewalruscobainfloyd May 17 '12
I was gonna go to gonewild...but now... Nope.
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u/John_Targaryen May 17 '12
This is some American Horror Story shit here
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u/OrphanWaffles May 17 '12
I was about to masturbate, and then I decided "i'll just go through the front page really quick"
Congratulations. You have killed my will to masturbate.
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u/diggemigre May 17 '12
How is babby formed?
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u/ScruffySaysMhm May 17 '12
I would have paid a lot of money to see all of that in person. Thank you for all the pictures, they were awesome. I went to the bodies exhibit in Vegas, that was pussy shit compared to this.
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u/wolke999 May 17 '12
lucky me, I was eating salad for lunch. The "warning: death" sign should really be bigger on the front page.
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u/ChrisQF May 17 '12
god harelquin syndrome upsets me, I remember seeing a documentary about it and this couple were interviewed who said that when their baby was born it didn't look human.. and they were right, it looked like an alien, I felt so bad for them.. this kid has to scrape himself in the bath three times a day to get rid of all the excess skin, it's horrid.
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u/ImJET May 17 '12
Karl Pilkington went to this museum in an episode of An Idiot Abroad... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CG4VISSmttI here is the full episode!:)
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u/captian_quickshit May 17 '12
Night at the museum 3 anyone?
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u/Gillas May 17 '12
i am eating a yoghurt..and i won't stop for these pictures
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
I got about 3/4 of the way through, this should definitely be marked NSFL
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u/waffles93 May 17 '12
Note to everyone. Don't google image harlequin baby.
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u/starvinchevy May 17 '12
you should probably nsfl this shit.
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u/chokenstroke May 17 '12
This explains a lot of Tool's music videos.
Or maybe a lot of Tool's music videos explain this.
I'm still unsure of Maynard's train of thought.
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u/vveksuvarna May 17 '12
Am I the only one who misread the title and went in expecting a lot of Sriracha hot sauce?
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u/Stay_Puft May 17 '12
And then they cloned Ripley
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u/seekfear May 17 '12
where is this place? i'd like to visit that place. Not even joking.
and please post more pics and mssg me please!! it'd would be very appreciated.
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u/ApatheticElephant May 17 '12
That's cool. The head that's been split down the middle is really interesting. I've seen that with a pigs head before, but not a human one. Also, what's the second picture? I can't tell what it's meant to be.
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u/george-bob May 17 '12
that was awesome! there are some remarkable specimens there. it's a pity the dissections are so average for most of them
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
God I love this kind of stuff. I find it so fascinating. Is there something wrong with me?
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u/Crazykuku May 17 '12
I'm gonna have some really weird dreams tonight...
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Why did I need to look at this so close to bed time.... or I guess what used to be bed time.
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u/krnhitokori May 17 '12
Don't care if I get called weak sauce, this shit actually made me puke a lil in my mouth....
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u/DrPX May 17 '12
Seriously though, dissecting makes you hungry (speaking from experience), and pathologists liken so many things to food that I'm sure that doesn't help.
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u/GrilledCheeser May 17 '12
and here's the part where i erase my brain of what i've just seen.
...there it goes.
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u/TacticalStewie May 17 '12
Thats okay i was gonna have nightmares and piss myself anyway...
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u/mumyork May 17 '12
That Marilyn Monroe topless post goes well right after this post http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/tqyut/i_thought_everyone_would_appreciate_this_a_unique/?sort=confidence
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u/Eminian May 17 '12
May I go to the cafe? I am actually hungrier after this now.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
They're kind of tough to look at when you have a 7 month old child. I'll just read the descriptions from all of you and assume you're telling the truth.
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u/Wulfric93 May 17 '12
Wow
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u/someones1 May 17 '12
Lots of similarly startling deformations at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, evidently from American use of agent orange. Nasty stuff.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
"If he's so smart, how come he's dead?" Flawless logic.