{"id":2508,"date":"2007-03-15T18:53:30","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T18:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/take-a-gander-at-this.html"},"modified":"2007-03-15T18:53:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T18:53:30","slug":"take-a-gander-at-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/take-a-gander-at-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Take a gander at this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancynall.com\/\">Thanks to Nance for sending this one along:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armamentarium.net\/SitoNuovo\/1-%20Museo%20Modena.htm\">The Anatomical Museum in Modena, Italy<\/a>, which consists of a collection of simply astonishing obstetrical models realized by Giovan Battista Manfredini in Modena between 1773 and 1775. <\/p>\n<p>Almost full-scale models of women in various stages of pregnancy, skin and other layers peeled away (no, <em>not <\/em>Bodyworks!) , and cutaways of unborn babies in utero in various positions &#8211; used, I assume, to demonstrate how to get them out. <\/p>\n<p>(Caution &#8211; at the bottom of the page is a collection of preserved newborns with various deformities and anomalies)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/img451.imageshack.us\/img451\/7806\/mode27ci7.jpg\">http:\/\/img451.imageshack.us\/img451\/7806\/mode27ci7.jpg<\/a>&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; \/&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Nance for sending this one along: The Anatomical Museum in Modena, Italy, which consists of a collection of simply astonishing obstetrical models realized by Giovan Battista Manfredini in Modena between 1773 and 1775. 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