Since its transfer into the Center for the History of Medicine, the Warren Museum has been photographing its historic collection. One recent image is this beauchene or ‘exploded’ skull . The skull was prepared by and purchased from the Parisian anatomists Vasseur and Tramond in the 19th-century. “Mon Vasseur, Tramond S, A Paris 9. lup de L’ ecole de medecine” is inscribed in ink on the skull’s left parietal bone.

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