Photo Albumen Macabre Surgeons 1885

COMB (Constant) [Surgery - Anatomy - Skull - Cabinet of curiosities] Five surgical students or professors and their anatomical skulls Vintage albumen print (15.7x11.8cm), Tours, 1885. Item #4459 Photography, print Period albumen, by Constant Peigné, established in Tours from 1881, showing five students or professors of surgery, wearing their traditional clothes and posing with their anatomy skulls. This photograph has the rare advantage of being, on the one hand, signed and dated by the photographer, and on the other hand of having been signed by all the students or professors: Guérin, G. Roger, Habusseau, Bretonneau, Robert Porentru and Boyer Beautiful testimony to the fierce spirit of medical schools and a beautiful, old, documented macabre photo.