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Monday, June 18, 2018

The Historical Body in Copenhagen

First the Medical Museion:

Reconstruction of the torso of Alexis St. Martin, who was observed for years by William Beaumont after a gunshot wound turned into a fistula with a direct view of the insides of the stomach.


Kidney stone 

Glass eyes

Former anatomical theater

Reconstructed apothecary

Preserved fetus in utero

Preserved head showing veins


Preserved foot showing tendons

Hand showing tendons

Forest of spines

Conjoined twins

Dissection table

Former anatomy theater

Spanish flies used as irritants

Cholera sample



Padded box for psychiatric patients

Prosthetic leg

Prosthetic arm

Surgical chair




And from the National Museum of Denmark:




For more On this miniature wax cadaver and much larger ivory skeleton See HERE.



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