In the nineteenth century, physicians in newly formed special disciplines of medicine requested models of illness from their fields of competence. This book, illustrated with numerous color photographs, describes the history of the art of moulaging, which had its beginnings in the anatomical wax figures of the eighteenth century. Until the mid-1950s they served as teaching models in the medical curriculum.
Moulages are three-dimensional wax figures of pathological changes in the human body. These techniques originated from the workshop of the modellers of religious images indeed the most famous, the Sicilian.Moulages- inventory from a wax museum? Not in the least. He focuses on a specific medium-the use of wax casts made from the direct impressions of body parts. Schnalke's study discusses the origins of this technique within religious imagery. His history of the medical wax moulage is a first rate introduction to the rationale and methods for creating highly realistic, accurate images of the body. Thomas Schnalke, an assistant professor of the history of medicine at ErlangenNuremberg, has presented a prehistory of the Visible Body project without being aware of it. This is the "cutting edge" of body imaging of the 1990s, but like all cutting edges it has a history. How can you be absolutely accurate and absolutely realistic? Here is the formula: take a real body (in this case that of an executed criminal), scan it by nuclear magnetic resonance, and make the data available on the Internet. They decided to "build" the Visible Man and (eventually) the Visible Woman out of data bits.
In the late 1980s the question of what would be the best way of representing the human body for teaching and research was solved by researchers at the National library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Thomas Schnalke, trans Kathy Spatschek Quintessence, 138, pp 226 ISBN 0 86715 306 7
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