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biological studies
The description and explanation of the development of the
embryo profited from cellular theory and the gradual improvement
of characteristic laboratory techniques and of microscopic
observation, such as micrographs or micro-dissection, section,
fixation, staining and coloration.
Specimen preparations preserved in the Museum illustrate this
development as well as the late reception of modern embryology
in Catalonia. On the other hand, Catalan physicians’
more pragmatic interests at the end of the 19th Century, together
with the studies of problems raised from childbirth assistance
and teratology, provided a noteworthy array of objects representing
congenital malformations.
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