Name/Title
Bones of Foetal SkeletonEntry/Object ID
2013.3.101Description
Description from L.A. Brown's 1959 catalog: "Dr. Peter's Notebook has this entry from a bill of Guy of Paris, "I set Bones, foetus, complete, 35 fr." This probably is the set referred to. The bones are mounted in anatomical sets on heavy black cardboard or on wooden pegs.
Note especially the three ossicle for each middle ear and the twenty buds of the milk teeth. These bones if assembled as a skeleton would make one less than eighteen inches tall. Ainè Guy was a famous preparator of anatomical models and specimens. He was a member of the medical faculty of Paris. In the New York Public library, we found an 1850 catalogue and price list of Guy. Many of the items given in the catalogue are identical with those purchased eleven years earlier by Dr. Peter. This 1850 catalogue lists the head (figure 104) at 250 francs, the "a la Beauchˆne" skull at 200 francs, etc."Collection
Moosnick Museum - Anatomical Specimens