There is something creepily fascinating about this man of DiY lab equipment , fashioned in Denmark during the 1970s . Can you guess its purpose ? Not for the faint of heart .
The habitrails may have give it away . Yes , it ’s a scab guillotine , considered 40 years ago to be the most humane way to kill so-and-so after experiment on them . In Biomedicine On Display , the blog of the University of Copenhagen Medical Museion , the curators pen :
The guillotine is a fascinating ( if somewhat morbid ) spell of laboratory equipment that can at the same time hint at the more slaughterous part of science and the relation between scientist and animals and also be used as an example of ‘ dwelling house made ’ laboratory equipment . As assistant engineer Kristian Karlsen told us , when Museion was at the annual ‘ clean - up - twenty-four hours ’ at Panum , biomedical researchers in preceding and present have often had to make their own equipment in collaboration with mechanics and engineers . He note that at some point in the late history of biomedicine at Panum there was one equipment - building shop for every 4 - 5 laboratories . In other words , ‘ home made ’ science laboratory equipment is and has been a more important and oftentimes used part of biomedical enquiry than most people would believe .
Another strange item he chance upon is this one , below . It appear to be some kind of tissue slicer , which hail from a storage elbow room in the university labs . Right now the Museion is influence on see out what it was used for and who made it .
viaBiomedicine On Display
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