Doctors Used These Old Pop-Up Books to Learn How to Perform Surgery

It ’s always amazing to calculate back at how awfully simple thing once were . These bolt down - up books , for representative , are in an elaborate way layered to show the various organs in a human body . Doctors would apply ’em for practice surgery tally . [ Laughing Squid ]

It ’s such simple technology — if I can even call it that — that it ’s unbelievable that masses used these fabric to learn about our body and cut with trust . I especially love how the video apply scalpels to flip each Thomas Nelson Page . The books are part of the Animated Anatomies expo at the Duke University Perkins Library through July 17 , 2011 . Some of these anatomical dad - up books go back to the sixteenth century .

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