Image of the Month

04/22/2016

This image of gallstones, at 4x magnification, was supplied by Norm Barker, Professor of Pathology & Art as Applied to Medicine and Director, Pathology Photography, Digital Imaging and Computer Graphics Laboratory at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The variability in color and texture of these solid crystalline deposits arises from differences in the stones’ primary compounds. Gallstones were known as early as 2000 BC, when they were mentioned in divination texts that claimed they could represent either a good or a bad omen. Today, however, you would be hard-pressed to find a gallstone sufferer holding up their disease as auspicious!

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