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biomedicalephemera: Wax anatomical models of man and woman; half-skeleton, half-living, in fashionable Regency garments. It’s unknown if these models were intended as a darkly comic “memento mori” sort of novelty, or a teaching aid, or both. The skeletons are accurate enough to have been used to teach students how the articulations line up in the living body, so even as a novelty, they may have had an educational use. Models located at Science Museum London, originally created ca. 1810-1830.
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biomedicalephemera: Wax anatomical models of man and woman; half-skeleton, half-living, in fashionable Regency garments. It’s unknown if these models were intended as a darkly comic “memento mori” sort of novelty, or a teaching aid, or both. The skeletons are accurate enough to have been used to teach students how the articulations line up in the living body, so even as a novelty, they may have had an educational use. Models located at Science Museum London, originally created ca. 1810-1830.
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biomedicalephemera: Wax anatomical models of man and woman; half-skeleton, half-living, in fashionable Regency garments. It’s unknown if these models were intended as a darkly comic “memento mori” sort of novelty, or a teaching aid, or both. The skeletons are accurate enough to have been used to teach students how the articulations line up in the living body, so even as a novelty, they may have had an educational use. Models located at Science Museum London, originally created ca. 1810-1830.
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biomedicalephemera: Wax anatomical models of man and woman; half-skeleton, half-living, in fashionable Regency garments. It’s unknown if these models were intended as a darkly comic “memento mori” sort of novelty, or a teaching aid, or both. The skeletons are accurate enough to have been used to teach students how the articulations line up in the living body, so even as a novelty, they may have had an educational use. Models located at Science Museum London, originally created ca. 1810-1830.
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biomedicalephemera: Wax anatomical models of man and woman; half-skeleton, half-living, in fashionable Regency garments. It’s unknown if these models were intended as a darkly comic “memento mori” sort of novelty, or a teaching aid, or both. The skeletons are accurate enough to have been used to teach students how the articulations line up in the living body, so even as a novelty, they may have had an educational use. Models located at Science Museum London, originally created ca. 1810-1830.
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biomedicalephemera:

Wax anatomical models of man and woman; half-skeleton, half-living, in fashionable Regency garments.

It’s unknown if these models were intended as a darkly comic “memento mori” sort of novelty, or a teaching aid, or both.

The skeletons are accurate enough to have been used to teach students how the articulations line up in the living body, so even as a novelty, they may have had an educational use.

Models located at Science Museum London, originally created ca. 1810-1830.

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