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Anatomical description of the brain wax models of Museu da Pharmacia de Ouro Preto

Background  In 1839, the Escola de Farmácia de Ouro Preto pioneered the teaching of pharmaceutical sciences in Brazil. At the end of the 19th century, the Escola de Farmácia possessed a French collection of anatomical models, some made of wax and paper-mâché . The models were a critical part of teac...

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Autores principales: Sousa, Luiz Eduardo, Borges, Ingrid da Silva, Seidel, Helen, Pereira, Isadora Lopes, Farias, Juliana de Paula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda. 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9797259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36577415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1758463
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author Sousa, Luiz Eduardo
Borges, Ingrid da Silva
Seidel, Helen
Pereira, Isadora Lopes
Farias, Juliana de Paula
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description Background  In 1839, the Escola de Farmácia de Ouro Preto pioneered the teaching of pharmaceutical sciences in Brazil. At the end of the 19th century, the Escola de Farmácia possessed a French collection of anatomical models, some made of wax and paper-mâché . The models were a critical part of teaching anatomy, particularly in an era of paradigm changes about how the human brain works. Objective  The present study aimed to anatomically describe the brain models through a comparative analysis with the current anatomical description. Methods  Comparative analysis of the brain models with modern anatomical descriptions. Results  In the individual analysis of the wax models, we verified excellent anatomical accuracy of the cortical and subcortical regions. Our results identified internal structures, like the basal ganglia and white matter. Compared with modern anatomical books and websites, the wax brain models have high scientific quality. Conclusion  The models of the present study gave students hands-on experience of human anatomy in the 19 (th) century. Nowadays, the models are part of the memory of Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto and Museu da Pharmacia de Ouro Preto . The collection of wax models shows the appreciation of neuroanatomy teaching at the turn of the century concomitant with advances in neurology and anatomy around the world.
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spelling pubmed-97972592023-01-09 Anatomical description of the brain wax models of Museu da Pharmacia de Ouro Preto Sousa, Luiz Eduardo Borges, Ingrid da Silva Seidel, Helen Pereira, Isadora Lopes Farias, Juliana de Paula Arq Neuropsiquiatr Background  In 1839, the Escola de Farmácia de Ouro Preto pioneered the teaching of pharmaceutical sciences in Brazil. At the end of the 19th century, the Escola de Farmácia possessed a French collection of anatomical models, some made of wax and paper-mâché . The models were a critical part of teaching anatomy, particularly in an era of paradigm changes about how the human brain works. Objective  The present study aimed to anatomically describe the brain models through a comparative analysis with the current anatomical description. Methods  Comparative analysis of the brain models with modern anatomical descriptions. Results  In the individual analysis of the wax models, we verified excellent anatomical accuracy of the cortical and subcortical regions. Our results identified internal structures, like the basal ganglia and white matter. Compared with modern anatomical books and websites, the wax brain models have high scientific quality. Conclusion  The models of the present study gave students hands-on experience of human anatomy in the 19 (th) century. Nowadays, the models are part of the memory of Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto and Museu da Pharmacia de Ouro Preto . The collection of wax models shows the appreciation of neuroanatomy teaching at the turn of the century concomitant with advances in neurology and anatomy around the world. Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda. 2022-12-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9797259/ /pubmed/36577415 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1758463 Text en Academia Brasileira de Neurologia. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Borges, Ingrid da Silva
Seidel, Helen
Pereira, Isadora Lopes
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9797259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36577415
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1758463
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