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See a portable bidet made in Paris, 1928

Wax teaching model of a woman (18th century Italian)
(in the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin - Institute for the History of Medicine - Vienna, Austria)

 
Photo reproduced from The Ingenious Machine of Nature ©National Gallery of Canada, 1996
The model is in the Institut für Geschichte der Medicin, Vienna, Austria. 

The Italian anatomist Felice Fontane (1720-1805) directed the making of this wax teaching model, possibly created from the cast of a corpse.

Using wax models skirted the legal and moral problems in obtaining bodies for dissection, and avoided the decay of the corpse in an era when this was inevitable.

This picture reminds me of a study published in the 1990s about the reactions of first-year medical students to the presence of human corpses, which they must dissect over a period of months. It's a difficult situation for many people, as I think it would be for me.


See a portable bidet made in Paris, 1928

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