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19th century medical practices - Dupuytren Museum + Orfila Museum + Collection Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris.

Published in "Les Monstres", Martin Monestier / Édition du Pont-Neuf.

Photographs taken at the Dupuytren & Orfila Museum (Faculty of Medicine - rue des Saint-Pères, Paris).

The Dupuytren Museum was founded in 1835 at the same time as the Chair of Pathological Anatomy.

Wax (ceroplastic) parts had a didactic purpose for medical education, and in particular for pathologies & teratology (monstrosities).

 

 

 

 

 

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