<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>health Archives - Messy Nessy Chic</title> <atom:link href="https://www.messynessychic.com/tag/health/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.messynessychic.com/tag/health/</link> <description>Cabinet of Chic Curiosities</description> <lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:19:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2</generator> <image> <url>https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png</url> <title>health Archives - Messy Nessy Chic</title> <link>https://www.messynessychic.com/tag/health/</link> <width>32</width> <height>32</height> </image> <item> <title>The Radium Girls and the Generation that brushed its Teeth with Radioactive Toothpaste</title> <link>https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/02/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MessyNessy]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2015 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Conversation Starters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life is Messy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nostalgia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obscure history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Time travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[forgotten]]></category> <category><![CDATA[health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[radioactive]]></category> <category><![CDATA[radium]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scandal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[WWII]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.messynessychic.com/?p=67345</guid> <description><![CDATA[ <div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/02/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste/"><img title="thoradia" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/thoradia1-600x458.jpg" alt="The Radium Girls and the Generation that brushed its Teeth with Radioactive Toothpaste" width="600" height="458" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> The Radium Girls were so contaminated that if you stood over their graves today with a Geiger counter, the radiation levels would still cause the needles to jump more than 80 years later. They were small-town girls from New Jersey who had been hired by a local factory to paint the clock faces of luminous watches, the latest new…]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/07/02/the-radium-girls-and-the-generation-that-brushed-its-teeth-with-radioactive-toothepaste/"><img title="thoradia" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/thoradia1-600x458.jpg" alt="The Radium Girls and the Generation that brushed its Teeth with Radioactive Toothpaste" width="600" height="458" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> <p></p> <p><em><strong>T</strong></em>he Radium Girls were so contaminated that if you stood over their graves today with a Geiger counter, the radiation levels would still cause the needles to jump more than 80 years later. They were small-town girls from New Jersey who had been hired by a local factory to paint the clock faces of luminous watches, the latest new army gadget used by American soldiers. The women were told that the glow-in-the-dark radioactive paint was harmless, and so they painted 250 dials a day, licking their brushes every few strokes with their lips and tongue to give them a fine point.</p> <p></p> <p>They were paid the modern equivalent of $0.]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>The Asylum That Gave Lou Reed Electroshock Therapy Is Also an Unforgettable Art Museum</title> <link>https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/11/21/the-asylum-that-gave-lou-reed-electroshock-therapy-is-also-an-unforgettable-art-museum/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Francky Knapp]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:28:55 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design Awesomeness]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Conversation Starters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Don't Be A Tourist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inspiration Vault]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life is Messy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Off-Beat & Little Known]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[contemporary art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crazy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gallery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[museum]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category> <category><![CDATA[outsider art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[psychiatric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[psycho]]></category> <category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[studio]]></category> <category><![CDATA[surrealism]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.messynessychic.com/?p=120292</guid> <description><![CDATA[ <div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/11/21/the-asylum-that-gave-lou-reed-electroshock-therapy-is-also-an-unforgettable-art-museum/"><img title="Creedmoor-Design-NY-2" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Creedmoor-Design-NY-2-600x433.jpg" alt="The Asylum That Gave Lou Reed Electroshock Therapy Is Also an Unforgettable Art Museum" width="600" height="433" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> “Excuse me!” says a man by a snowed-in dumpster. “Excuse me,” he continues, in a teleprompted tone, “Where are you, excuse me, goodnight!” It’s 2pm at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2018/11/21/the-asylum-that-gave-lou-reed-electroshock-therapy-is-also-an-unforgettable-art-museum/"><img title="Creedmoor-Design-NY-2" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Creedmoor-Design-NY-2-600x433.jpg" alt="The Asylum That Gave Lou Reed Electroshock Therapy Is Also an Unforgettable Art Museum" width="600" height="433" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> <div id="attachment_120799" style="width: 940px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><p id="caption-attachment-120799" class="wp-caption-text">Creedmoor, NY</p></div> <p><em><strong>“E</strong></em>xcuse me!” says a man by a snowed-in dumpster. “Excuse me,” he continues, in a teleprompted tone, “Where are you, excuse me, goodnight!]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Electric Baths of Yesteryear</title> <link>https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/10/28/electric-baths-of-yesteryear/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MessyNessy]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2015 14:42:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Conversation Starters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life is Messy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nostalgia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obscure history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Time travel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bath]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Electric]]></category> <category><![CDATA[health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[invention]]></category> <category><![CDATA[radiation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[strange]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sun lamp]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tanning]]></category> <category><![CDATA[weird]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.messynessychic.com/?p=71707</guid> <description><![CDATA[ <div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/10/28/electric-baths-of-yesteryear/"><img title="Ultraviolet radiation of sick children" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/raditiontherapy1934-600x430.jpg" alt="Electric Baths of Yesteryear" width="600" height="430" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> It does sometimes seem like our early 20th century ancestors had a knack for coming up with particularly extravagant new ways to torture themselves. An electric bath? Sounds pretty awful, doesn’t it? Fortunately it didn’t exactly involve mixing a bubble bath with electricity and taking a dip after a long day.]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2015/10/28/electric-baths-of-yesteryear/"><img title="Ultraviolet radiation of sick children" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/raditiontherapy1934-600x430.jpg" alt="Electric Baths of Yesteryear" width="600" height="430" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> <p style="text-align: justify;"></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><em><strong>I</strong></em>t does sometimes seem like our early 20th century ancestors had a knack for coming up with particularly extravagant new ways to torture themselves. An electric bath?]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>The Girl with the Impossible Waist</title> <link>https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/07/10/the-girl-with-the-impossible-waist/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[MessyNessy]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:26:38 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Editor's Picks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[How to start a subculture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inspiration Vault]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Life is Messy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Nostalgia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Obscure history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[People / Icons / Muses]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[body]]></category> <category><![CDATA[diet]]></category> <category><![CDATA[figure]]></category> <category><![CDATA[health]]></category> <category><![CDATA[hourglass]]></category> <category><![CDATA[model]]></category> <category><![CDATA[pin-up]]></category> <category><![CDATA[women]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.messynessychic.com/?p=54254</guid> <description><![CDATA[ <div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/07/10/the-girl-with-the-impossible-waist/"><img title="girl" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/girl-451x600.jpg" alt="The Girl with the Impossible Waist" width="451" height="600" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> If you look up “hourglass figure” in the dictionary, Betty Brosmer’s picture should probably be next to it (if you Google it, she’s right there next to Kim Kardashian). Meet the highest paid pin-up girl of the 1950s, considered by many as the first true supermodel, Betty appeared in thousands of magazine including LIFE, Time, Fortune,…]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <div> <a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/07/10/the-girl-with-the-impossible-waist/"><img title="girl" src="https://www.messynessychic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/girl-451x600.jpg" alt="The Girl with the Impossible Waist" width="451" height="600" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a> </div> <p></p> <p><span style="color: #000000;"><em><strong>I</strong></em>f you look up “hourglass figure” in the dictionary, Betty Brosmer’s picture should probably be next to it (if you Google it, she’s right there next to Kim Kardashian). Meet the highest paid pin-up girl of the 1950s, considered by many as the first true supermodel, Betty appeared in thousands of magazine including LIFE, Time, Fortune, Look, and was the first model to own the rights to many of her photos and negatives– which is all very interesting, if I could actually tear my attention away from her <em>impossibly tiny WAIST!!</em></span></p> <p></p> <p style="text-align:]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>