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Four Anatomist and Inventor: Marie-Marguerite Biheron and Her Medical Museum (1719–1795)
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Published:May 2021
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This chapter concerns anatomist Marie-Marguerite Biheron, who analyzed the human body, taking it apart in countless dissections to elucidate the hidden internal structures. It examines Biheron's “anatomie artificielle” that she fashioned, displayed, and taught with for decades in her private home museum. The chapter also looks at her models, made from a formula of her own invention that neither melted nor broke, which were said to imitate the human body with consummate precision. It reviews Biheron's study and dissection of actual corpses, too numerous to count and ongoing over decades, then mentions the first of three widely and wildly heralded anatomical demonstrations in the Académie des Sciences. The chapter then shifts to track how she grew up in the healing culture and forged her own independent but related medical path. Ultimately, the chapter examines the roles played by the renowned surgeon Sauveur Morand, gifted botanist and botanical illustrator Mlle Basseporte, philosopher Denis Diderot and the eclectic doctor Jacques Barbeu Dubourg in her study of human anatomy with the emphasis on modeling.
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