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?]

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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with the pinev arm, the elbow joint seems considerably enlarged, but in tact is only ot natural dimensions. The muscles of the fore arm, though very small, may never¬ theless be traced. The hands are perfect in appearance. Seurat, however, cannot straighten his fingers, but keeps them in a semi-bent position; with this exception, he can use them freely. The tnfnk is singularly shaped. Viewed from the front, the chest is not particularly narrow; it measures from one shoulder, to the other, across the sternum, sixteen inches. The sternum is much flattened, as though it had been driven inwards, towards the dorsal vertebrce. In well formed people thisbone is a little convex, externally, and concave internally, permitting all possible room for the thoraiic viscera. In Seurat however, this order of things is changed, the outer sur¬ face of the breast bone being concave, and the internal convex. It is pushed so far in¬ wards, as scarcely to leave more than H inches or 2 inches between itself and the opposite vertehrtJB. This position of the sternum, and of the ribs, may probably afford an explanation^of the causes which produce a slight impediment to his swallowing with dispatch, or such mor-

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.

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