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Mounted Beauchene skull

Surgeon and anatomist Edmé François Chauvot de Beauchêne invented in the 1810s the technique of taking apart the individual bones of the skull and resassembling them in “exploded” fashion on a frame for better viewing.

Maison Vasseur, Tramond successeur Paris, c. 1880
The Warren Anatomical Museum in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine