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anatomy
The description of organic forms, aim of both descriptive
and topographic or surgical anatomy, constitutes one of the
foundations for modern medical knowledge. The methodology
and sequence of morphological display has gone together with
distinct ways of representation of the human body throughout
history, often as a complementary tool to dissection of human
corpses. The description of those usages was rearranged according
to a new basis established through the combination of comparative
anatomy and the evolutionary theory from the last third of
the 19th Century.
The anatomical preparations, natural and artificial, normal
and pathological, held by the Museum, and made in different
materials, show the process of consolidation of that display
method, an unequivocal pedagogical character, complementary
to dissection rooms, as well as the renewing viewpoint coming
from surgery schools.
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