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Abstract

"Human beings have always speculated about their physical contents; the difficulty has been in obtaining an adequate interior view. Although human dissection (of criminals, whether dead or alive) was permitted in Alexandria in 300 BC, Galen, 5 centuries later, still had to extrapolate human structures from animal parts.2 Impeded by law, moral scruples and dogma, the study of the human anatomy progressed by fits and starts, always in tandem with the artistic representation, on paper, in woodcut, engraving or wax model, of what was seen at times with questionable objectivity. With the 19th century came new technologies that offered not only new ways to record, but new ways to see."