Andrés Zervigón, Susan Sidlauskas, Kaitlin Booher, and Kimiko Matsumura all reviewed portions of the manuscript at various stages of production, and I thank them for their sharp insights. It was also due to the generosity of a bursary from the Society for the Social History of Medicine that I was able to share my work with the History of Dermatology Society, and I owe the SSHM my gratitude for enabling me to attend what became an incredibly formative conference. An early version of the paper was also shared with the History of Dermatology Society, and I thank members of the society, especially Mark Valentine, Lawrence Parish, and Daniel Wallach, for their interest in the project. Research for this paper was first presented at the conference ‘Envisioning Science’, organised by the Natura Science and Epistemology Working Group at Rutgers University I thank the organisers and attendees alike for their questions, comments and feedback. How could such an illustrative teaching material, which still exists today in a number of medical schools and museums, have fallen so completely into oblivion? This book provides answers to this question.I owe many people a debt of gratitude for their contributions to this paper. Thus it was in dermatology - the specialty that places the most value on the study of morphology - that moulages have enjoyed their broadest distribution and most intensive use. The moulage, a realistic object that could be painted and formed, lent itself above all to the representation of those illnesses that appeared on the epidermis or at least produced changes on the surface of the skin. In the nineteenth century, physicians in newly formed special disciplines of medicine requested models of illness from their fields of competence. This book, illustrated with numerous color photographs, describes the history of the art of moulaging, which had its beginnings in the anatomical wax figures of the eighteenth century. Until the mid-1950s they served as teaching models in the medical curriculum. Moulages are three-dimensional wax figures of pathological changes in the human body. Moulages- inventory from a wax museum? Not in the least.

Diseases In Wax by Thomas Schnalke