The Literary Dimension of Wax Anatomical Models: (1850-1920)

This article seeks to relate the anatomical wax moulages to the history of those patients who served as models in the context of venereal disease in the second half of 19th-century Spain. Thanks to the collection of medical records held in the dermatological Museum of the Olavide collection in Madrid, we can establish a precise parallelism between the literary rhetorical forms used in the medical records and their three-dimensional representations.