posted by Charles H. Russo on Aug 9
A client of mine who was a dermatologist enthusiastically recommended visiting Le Musee des Moulages, a museum of dermatological plaster casts. She said it housed an extensive collection of reproductions of body parts showing skin diseases in full color.
I entered the 2-story building that looked like a house and the ground floor had a series of plaques and busts commemorating important doctors and professors. When I went upstairs, the woman in the office unlocked the door to a large, musty two-story room with rows and rows of dark wood vitrines. The vitrines were filled with wax body parts covered with acne, psoriasis, syphilis and a host of other hideous skin diseases.
All at once I was repulsed, fascinated and creeped out. In one way there was a beauty to the attention to detail of the texture and color of the replicated body parts. Close-ups of lifelike hands, feet, tongues, cheeks, fetuses, baby
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