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Rare split skull known as "Beauchene" * showing human cranial bones disarticulated and reassembled remotely on metal supports, all mounted on base with adjustable rods. Nerve branches of the teeth represented not red threads. Certainly work of the House Tramond ** in Paris, XIXth century.
This skull is in good condition. It has its base but no globe.
It is not signed but is most likely the work of the Maison Tramond workshops in Paris, specialists in the field in the nineteenth. The two jaws can be advanced by the rods at the back, the top of the skull can be tilted back.
A report: missing a small bone in the middle part (the right cheekbone?), Missing some teeth in both jaws, some gaps also in the son (nerves), the lower jaw moves a little (light game in the step of fixing screws), wear of time, look at the pictures for details.
is a French doctor who has gone down in history for his pioneering studies on hysteria. After the death of his father, he resumes his medical studies in Montpellier, obtains the diploma of doctor and buys a doctor's office in the house of the Count of Artois, future King Charles X. He is a member of the Academy of Medicine and is interested in nervous diseases, publishing in 1783 an essay entitled The Influence of Affections of the Soul in the Nervous Diseases of Women. In the second half of the 1780s, he was appointed doctor of the Gros-Caillou military hospital (or the French Guards, 106 rue Saint-Dominique in Paris). In 1791, he emigrated and joined the Count of Artois in Koblenz then chose to return to France and retired to his property in Sens. At the Restoration, he resumed his practice with Charles X, as a consultant physician. He invented in the 1810s the technique of dismantling the individual bones of the skull and reassembling them "exploded" on a frame for better visualization.
Created in the mid-nineteenth century at 9, rue de l'École-de-Médecine, was specialized in anatomical and osteological models. PG Tramond also presented busts molded on various ethnic types, skeletons of animals ... He worked with a man named Vasseur (Tramond successor) in 1877, contemporary of Talrich son.
