VIRUS Band 19, pp. 259-266, 2021/06/10
Schwerpunkt: Objekte als Quellen der Medizingeschichte
The Dermatological Moulage offers a unique potential for the processing of medical andscientific historical questions. Created more than 120 years ago as lifelike, three-dimensionalwax replicas, they provide us with an incomparably vivid view of historical disease findings.The exact observation and description of a skin change is then as now an important part of aclinical examination. The moulage ultimately illustrates a dermatological description. Thesymptoms were recorded with such accuracy that even today a diagnosis can often be madesimply by looking at them. This project is dedicated to the question which changes the dermatologicaldescription of findings has undergone since the beginning of the 20th century. Historicaldescriptions of wax moulages from the Würzburg moulage collection in Karl Zieler’s“Atlas der Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten” published in 1942 serve as a basis.
Keywords: Wax Moulages, Dermatology, Description of Skin Lesions, Karl Zieler, Würzburg, Dermatological Atlas
