Auzoux Clastic Anatomy Model Lower Human Limb

Signed "Dr AUZOUX SA | PARIS FRANCE", 9/4/1970, polychrome papier-mâché on wood, metal fasteners and hooks, iron wire, numbered round labels laminated. Life-size model for an adult man, from the hip to the foot, with all the muscles removable and numbered with 25 parts and 355 numbers, the foot includes 6 parts and 166 numbers. Model which also shows the muscle insertions, the relationships of the muscles between them, all the vessels and nerves relating to the muscles. Veins in blue and arteries in red. In September 1822, Louis Auzoux passed his doctoral thesis in Medicine and presented his first anatomical piece before the Academy of Medicine: a lower limb mounted on a real skeleton. It is this model which will be the starting point of his enterprise. This copy, dated 1970, corresponds to No. A 103 of the catalogue* of the Establishments of Doctor Auzoux, dated the same years at the address of the medical school. Bears the label of the Auzoux workshops printed in black on a yellow background. Imperfections, small losses, wormholes, missing piece at the level of the calf of the leg but nevertheless beautiful clastic model on wood that is rarely encountered. Clastic anatomy of Doctor Auzoux, J. Montaudon, Paris, sd (around 1920), p. 103, No. 25: old model. *Catalogue of the Establishments of Doctor Auzoux, Jérôme Auzoux 1797-1878, Paris, 9 rue de l'école de médecine, sd (around 1970), Auzoux Collection, pl. A 103.