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Knowing the activity of dermatologists is the main aim of the exhibition 'La Dermatology: a journey through time', which moves to Murcia 60 wax figures recreate skin diseases belonging to the museum Olavide de Madrid.
These are figures made in the nineteenth century by artists such as Zofia Enrique Dávila, José Rafael López Álvarez Barta and to graph the skin lesions with an objective of education, since at that time there was no picture.
Section Territorial Murcia of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV) wanted to approach this exhibition Murcia centenary of the creation of the AEDV.
The 60 figures that are set you can visit the Archives (Avenida de Los Pinos, 4) from 2 to 7 March.
The figures were created in the nineteenth century and have been restored in the XXI century by the Spanish Academy of Dermatology.
The exhibition can also see pictures and panels explaining the hospital environment in which they were made, the process of creating the figures and their recovery and restoration.
Olavide Museum was founded in 1882 by the renowned dermatologist José Eugenio Olavide with the name 'pathologic Museum, chrome-lithographic and microscopic San Juan de Dios Hospital', with the passage of time the museum disappeared and the hospital that housed was demolished.
After more than forty years of work involving many dermatologists, in December 2005 were retrieved boxes containing the latest figures Olavide Museum.
The AEDV the restored and now the Spanish Academy of Dermatology has recovered and cataloged some 500 figures, many of them on permanent display in Madrid at the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Science Park of Granada.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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