1926 poster depicts human as a chemical plant
"Man as Industrial Palace" was created by Fritz Kahn in 1926. A high-res scan is available from the "Dream Anatomy" gallery of the National Institutes of Health.
Kahn’s modernist visualization of the digestive and respiratory system as "industrial palace," really a chemical plant, was conceived in a period when the German chemical industry was the world’s most advanced.Link (Via Finkbuilt)
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Now if we could just get someone to photoshop it with English translation.
Unless it's an amazing coincidence, this HAS to be the source for the famous, much-parodied Bufferin ads of the 1950s that used an almost identical cutaway man, with electrical equipment in his head and pipes running through his body.
Like everything else, it's on the web...
http://www.fulltable.com/VTS/i/imsc/aa/01.jpg
@Woid - That's a fascinating comparison. Thanks for the link. I'm not anti-aspirin or anything, but that ad sure sounds like it's engaging in some kind of weaselly doublespeak, e.g.: "Check these facts with your physician:" (then a list of facts--is it therefore my own fault if they're wrong, if I didn't check with my doctor?) and "Medical science knows that a pain reliever must go through the stomach and into the blood steam to relieve pain." (Who is this medical science of whom you speak? Does s/he have a degree? In medical science? And did they *really* think in the 50s that the only way to deliver medicine was via the stomach?)
I wonder if it'll one day seem as ridiculous to advise someone to take Zicam when a cold is coming on as it does to recommend aspirin at the onset.
I guess that it used to be popular to compare a person to a building in diagrams. A while back, I scanned an old book that depicts a man as a house, with a switchboard as a brain and a tongue as the mysterious "tasting room." I put it online at http://www.shannou.com/summ.php?f=imgcollect&oink=cadre
Chinese Health Poster from 1933 with similar body as factory:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/chineseposters/images/1200/DSC_4003.jpg
Hey, I've had a copy of this hanging on my wall for years.
whered you get it, firepile?
I had a book that had a similar drawing on the inside cover once...it was a fun thing to draw, as a kid. :D
This is really pretty. It's just annoying that they chose to encode this (and all the other posters posted here) as jpg. With all the solid colour and crisp lines typical of the time, png would have been a much better option.
(Try printing one of these - you will see the really awful jpg artefacts, especially in the background.)
I totally want this as a poster. would it look good if I just printed it out somewhere, like as it is?