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 ![Mounted Beauchene skull](/sites/g/files/omnuum6316/files/chsi/files/bok_skull.jpg)

 

**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