Elegant gold embroidery on red velvet - part of French officer’s uniform

I am ridiculously interested in the caduceus but I can’t find anything about why it would be on the uniform or what the other symbols stand for. 

Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit -- Life!

ornamentedbeing:

 x-ray of a corset

c. 1907

notwiselybuttoowell  is finding all my favorite posts from way back when!!!! I totally forgot that I had posted this one too! xx

October 17, 1995

“This picture is from an article called “The Rescuing Hug”. The article details the first week of life of a set of twins. Each were in their respective incubators and one was not expected to live. A hospital nurse fought against the hospital rules and placed the babies in one incubator. When they were placed together, the healthier of the two threw an arm over her sister in an endearing embrace. The smaller baby’s heart stabilized and temperature rose to normal.”

Edit: I’ve been reading more about this story the girls were 12 weeks ahead of their due date and both weigh 2 pounds at birth. My goodness.