Theatrical anatomy: Duverney in Paris, 1670-1720.
During the reign of Louis XIV, anatomical demonstrations became a public attraction in Paris. At the Jardin du Roi, the star performer was Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who attracted hundreds to his anatomy lectures. Simultaneously, Duverney also instructed the Dauphin and his courtiers, lectured to medical students at the Hôtel-Dieu hospital (making off with corpses in the process) and dissected before the Paris Academy of Sciences. Duverney's dramatic, rhetorical and anatomical skills made him the best-known man of science in Louis XIV's Paris.
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D000715:Anatomy / Q000266:history*; D004324:Drama / Q000266:history*; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D008512:Medicine in the Arts; D010297:Paris