Moulage

Moulage (French mouler: some form ) are replicas of diseased body parts. They originate from the time when color photography was not yet had the present quality.

Until the 1950s, pathological findings were in medicine, particularly in the field of dermatology and venereology, for teaching purposes and disease documentation reproduced vividly. First moulages were already established in the mid -19th century. Since the first International Congress of Dermatology and Venereal Diseases in 1889 at the Musée des Moulages at the Hôpital St. Louis in Paris moulages were considered the ideal teaching tool in dermatological university teaching.

For this, marks, for example of gypsum, subsequently, also made of silicon and filled with a wax or wax-resin mixture. The raw models were then removed after curing of the imprint mold and painted directly on the patient. In this way moulages and images are preserved to this day by those who are visually almost identical to an original finding.

Moulages were used not only as an aid in the lecture. They were templates for excellent quality and yet affordable color printing ( Citochromie technique) in atlases and textbooks, but also in scientific publications. To elucidate and deterrence moulages were shown of STDs in public.

After the three-dimensional life-size wax objects have fallen into the second half of the 20th century by the color photography is almost forgotten, they were rediscovered in recent years. Today they are appreciated as valuable medical history documents showing partially diseases that exists today in this form with little or no longer exist (for example, late forms of syphilis, skin tuberculosis, smallpox). Well-preserved collections have also recovered a meaning in teaching and be used by medical students to prepare for the state exam. In the Dermatological Clinic of the University Hospital Zurich for several years is also the introductory course in the specialty of skin and venereal diseases held in Moulage Museum.

Significant Moulagensammlungen

Were significant Moulagensammlungen or are there particular in (alphabetical list):

Incorporated today about 100 plaster casts in the seminar room of the clinic, 32 in Uniseum, rest in the basement of Hörsals