Interesting account and anatomical description of Claude Ambroise Seurat. Called L'anatomie vivante; or, The living skeleton, now exhibiting at the Chinese saloon, no. 94, Pall Mall, London.

  • Seurat, Claude-Ambroise, 1798-1841.
Date:
[1825?]
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Credit: Interesting account and anatomical description of Claude Ambroise Seurat. Called L'anatomie vivante; or, The living skeleton, now exhibiting at the Chinese saloon, no. 94, Pall Mall, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    , INTERESTING ACCOUNT AND ANATOMICAL DESCRIPTION OF CLAUDE AMBROISE SEURAT. IN this enlightened age, wlien science has advanced with rapid strides, and borne down before it every prejudice which ignorant and interested pretenders have attempted to oppose to its course; when the excellence of the arts, of literature, commerce, chemistry, and medi¬ cine, have arrived at great perfection, owing to fair discussion and open enquiry, every man must feel proud and conscious that he is rendering a true and important benefit to mankind in general, and to his own country in particular, whenever he is the instrument through providence, of bringing before the observation of scientific men, any object, cal¬ culated, through their enquiries and researches, to meliorate the general condition of our cor¬ poreal state, and render us more intimately acquainted with the formation of the human frame, and the extraordinary sports of nature, occasionally exhibited in its construction. Sucli were the views of those who brought