1. 1The eighteenth century French artist Honore Fragonand injected a metal alloy into the blood vessels of the corpses of a man and a horse, left the tissue to dry and covered it with varnish. The end product, which is on public display in the National School of Veterinary in Paris, is very much like the plastinized horseman, a combination of desiccated tissue and artificial materials. In 1521 Berengario published an anatomical image of a flailed man clad with a skin of a tiger. R. Herrlinger. 1970.History of medical illustration from antiquity to 1600. Munich. Graham Fulton-Smith: 80. Perhaps this is linked to the fall of the Aztec empire in 1519 since Aztec priests used to wear skin removed from their sacrificial victims, human or animal. It is notable that opponents to Jenner's vaccination also invoked the argument of blurring the boundaries between the human and the animal. R. Porter 2001.Bodies politic: disease, death and doctors in Britain, 1650-1900. London. Reaktion: 217.
2. 2G. Von Hagens. 2002. Anatomy and Plastination. InBodyworlds, the anatomical exhibition of real human bodies: catalogue on the exhibition. in G. von Hagens and A. Whalley, eds. Heidelberg. Institut fur Plastination: 9-36.
3. 3K. Vogel. 1999. The transparent man - some comments on the history of a symbol. inManifesting medicine: bodies and machines. R. Bud and B. Fin and H. Trischler, eds. Amsterdam. Harwood: 31-62.
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