{"id":266,"date":"2010-10-15T17:52:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T17:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmcldev.wpengine.com\/mcgovern\/2010\/10\/15\/medical-moulage\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:02:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:02:08","slug":"medical-moulage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.tmc.edu\/mcgovern\/2010\/10\/15\/medical-moulage\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical moulage"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alethea Drexler
\nArchives assistant
\nWe have a new toy at the Research Center, and just in time for Hallowe’en!
\nArchivist Phil Montgomery joined our department this past spring after a stretch with the Woodson Research Center<\/a> at Rice University.\u00a0 In the 1920’s, the Woodson was home to the Rice Parasite Museum, which Phil says was a fairly popular attraction.
\nAlas, our recent acquisition appears to be all that remains:
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Parasite moulage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n(Click on the picture for a larger version.)
\nThis is a medical “moulage<\/a>“: A model used in medical education and training. Moulage was developed by an Italian named Gaetano Zummo<\/a> (or Zumbo; he change the spelling after he moved to France) in the late seventeenth century.\u00a0 More about him, and images of some of his work, can be seen here<\/a> at the Galleria Roma; scroll down to read the English translation. Moulages are highly realistic painted wax models that depict anatomical features and the effects of disease, and they were invaluable as teaching tools in the days before color photography.
\nWax moulages went out of use when color slides became widely available, but another form of moulage that involves simulating wounds in latex and paint on volunteer “patients” or human simulaids is used in first-responder and military training.
\nThis one is in Japanese, and we hope to have it translated soon.\u00a0 It depicts various kinds of parasitic worms,\u00a0 the organs that they infest, and their means of transmission.\u00a0 We are not sure of its age but the rather plain, gray-painted frame suggests it might be from the 1930’s or 1940’s.
\nPhil says this was always one of his favorite pieces at the Woodson, but that he was the only one who felt that way about it and that they were not very sorry to give it up.\u00a0 We feel it will be right at home here at the Texas Medical Center Library.
\nThe McGovern Research Center has one other moulage, which demonstrates the removal of a tumor just below an ear:
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Dr. Cody's ear moulage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\n(Click on the picture for a larger version.)
\nThis one came from Manuscript Collection #55 and belonged to Claude Cody, Jr., M.D.\u00a0 After serving as a medical doctor in France during World War I, Cody set up practice in Texas and helped establish the Houston Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital.
\nThe Hopital Saint-Louis<\/a> in Paris maintains a museum of about 4,800 moulages; the website can be seen through Google Translate<\/a>.\u00a0 The M\u00fctter Medical Museum<\/a> in Philadelphia also has quite a few.\u00a0 (I’ve been to the M\u00fctter; it’s fascinating but not for the squeamish.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alethea Drexler Archives assistant We have a new toy at the Research Center, and just in time for Hallowe’en! Archivist Phil Montgomery joined our department this past spring after a stretch with the Woodson Research Center at Rice University.\u00a0 In the 1920’s, the Woodson was home to the Rice Parasite Museum, which Phil says […]<\/p>\n

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