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Paris: Dupuytren, a small museum unusual and the horrors

When we go to Paris, our agenda always included visits to major museums, but they may miss Louvre or the Orsay, but others less well known than worthwhile. I just discovered in WEAVING THE WORLD that of Dupuytren, which exhibits a personal collection of doctor of the same name designed for research, which is to be a sign of the unusual and horror, and weird things with birth defects. some images may not be pleasing to the eye and may offend sensitivities. I warn you in case you want to avoid.

The Louvre from the horrors

At number 15 rue de l'Ecole-de-Médicene, we find a small museum of horrors. Contains more than 6,500 pathology specimens, skulls, skeletons, wax reconstructions, members mummified, preserved in glycerin diseased organs, fetuses with malformations and more wonders from the personal collection of Dr. Dupuytren, designed for research. Entering clearly warn you that the visit is not recommended for children under 12 years and sensitive souls. You are warned.

This museum of Pathology and Teratology (birth defects study of living things) was opened in 1835 by the successor of Guillaume Dupuytren, a famous surgeon of the Hôtel-Dieu, the hospital Paris's most famous next to the cathedral of Notre Dame. At first, only men were allowed to visit him. We can walk through a room full of display cases crammed with bottles where they float in formalin-glycerine or malformed fetuses, members with various injuries, dissected or not, adorned with pustules, buboes, hypertrophy, tumors and cysts, each labeled with your label perfectly inked calligraphy announcing the pathology and all relevant details, as we see in this picture.

tuberculous chronic arthritis of the right hand of a woman of 63 years.

glycerin Sections of diseased organs.

Bottles of this type abound, as the doctor's specialty was the study and treatment of palmar fibromatosis, is now known just as Dupuytren's disease.

Disease Dupuytren's contracture and thickening of the palms studied by Baron.

fetal skeleton with spina bifida.

oldest contributions are wax replicas of skin diseases, sarcoma, syphilis and congenital deformities very realistic, like this woman
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The collection of malformed genitalia or necrosis, among which we find a hermaphrodite uterus inhabited by embryos and fetuses of all types are the most impression that cause the souls sensitive. Some are reproductions in wax ... some do not.

Cyclops 8-month fetus.

Cleft lip and heart malformation.

The walls are filled with treated and medical studies of all cases listed. On the shelves, emphasizes the collection of skeletons of children with hydrocephalus and their enormous skulls. Among the collection of skeletons, in other cabinets, draws attention to the skull of a young man who was shot through the head without damaging the brain, but only lived two days. A rod shows the trajectory of the bullet.