[An ivory visceral anatomic mannequin].
The pregnant woman statue (h: 170 mm) from the Académie Nationale de Médecine in Paris, is a visceral manikin carved in ivory, probably in southern Germany, by Stefan Zick (1639-1715) from Nuremberg. It lies flat on its back and stuck in a box; its head and neck are slightly flexed and the two upper limbs are sagittally movable at the shoulder. The left elbow is flexed and the forearm blocks a removable thoraco-abdominal plate under which a cavity showing the main viscera is carved: a pregnant uterus contains an orientable fetus and a removable intestinal shield covers it. The anatomical precision is limited by the size of the manikin, but several visceral or vascular details are carved or drawn. Reported in 1912 by Wickersheimer, as an 'anatomical Venus', this object could be used for basic teaching to midwives and parturients.
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Unité de Recherches Ostéologiques (Equipe recommandée Paris-V), France.
D000716:Anatomy, Artistic / Q000266:history*; D005260:Female; D005333:Fetus / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008348:Manikins; D008953:Models, Anatomic; D010297:Paris; D011247:Pregnancy; D014781:Viscera / Q000033:anatomy & histology
Un mannequin anatomique, viscéral, en ivoire.