This is a drawing from early in Paul Terry’s career, in the days before he became an animator. He later went on to produce over 1,300 cartoons between 1915 and 1955 including the many Terrytoons cartoons, making him one of the most prolific film producers in history. (Wikipedia)
I found it on the Otis Historical Archives Flickr group, which illustrates part of an astonishing collection of images about American military medicine.
Some of those images are truly bizarre. Only during wartime would an image like the one below ever be possible. It’s mind boggling to find a way of explaining how an object like that could ever find itself embedded in that part of the human body…
Grenade embedded in soldier’s head
The amazing thing is that the soldier is actually alive - hence the breathing tube.
