Strange to find such an image in a book on healing; but Magritte's purloining of the anatomical illustration lacks the layering that Dr. F.E. Bilz included, where the face could be folded back to dis- play a skull, & the internal organs similarly displayed by a slight manipulation of the body. None of that shown here. Instead—dare we say it?—a combination of bare bones & bare breasts to offer up a simulacrum of age & youth conjoined. Though left intact upon the head some residual skin, a re- minder that memento mori might sometimes come back to bite us.
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