Name/Title
"Books" of Pathological AnatomyEntry/Object ID
2013.3.103Description
Description from L.A. Brown's 1959 catalog: "These models were bought by Dr. Felix Thibert ("le docteur") along with many surgical models.
Dr. Peter states, '20 livrasions, casts, morbid anatomy, 820 francs.' These models are in plaster and correspond to actual cases seen at the time of autopsy. The models are framed so that they can stand as books on the physicians' shelf. A full description of the individual models in this collection is given by Dr. Thibert (Anatomie Pathologique avec Modèles en relief, etc., Paris, London, 1839).
In the Annual Announcement of the Medical Department of Transylvania University for 1839-40 these is reprinted the Valedictory Address of Dean Thomas D. Mitchell. In commenting on the new acquisitions of the Medical Department he says in part, '...In near association [to the drawings of medicinal plants] will be seen the drawings and paintings for the Surgical, Medical, Obstetrical and Chemical departments, designed to facilitate the studies of the pupil, and well adapted for the illustrations of the several teachers. Twenty-eight of the most accurate pictorial representations of morbid structures made by the ingenious Thibert, whose efforts have received the highest praise from the prince of pathological anatomists, Cruvelhier [sic], are already in our possession.'"Collection
Moosnick Museum - Anatomical Specimens
