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The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover) almond oil Along with the deckOf all the artifacts from the history of medicine, the Anatomical Venuswith its heady mixture of beauty, eroticism and deathis the most seductive. These life sized dissectible wax women reclining on moth eaten velvet cushionswith glass eyes, strings of pearls, and golden tiaras crowning their real human hairwere created in eighteenth century Florence as the centerpiece of the first truly public science museum. Conceived as a means to teach human