Marie Catherine Biheron
Marie Catherine Biheron , (November 17th 1719 - 1786), anatomist, French specialist in the 18th century in the anatomical wax models.
Girl of an apothecary of Paris, it studied initially the drawing under famous the Basseporte. This one advised to him to be exerted with the preparation of the artificial parts of anatomy. Some rejecting and some unpleasant that this work was for a woman, Miss Biheron was devoted with courage, made, to be formed, the voyage of London, and saw its crowned efforts of the most complete success to it. She had managed to make a whole body of woman who opened, and made it possible to examine the interior parts which one could move and replace at will.
She had formed, of her composition, out of wax, a cabinet which she showed public year for money, and it was her which, detailing with the eyes of a famous atheist the continual correspondence of causes and effects which composes and supports our organization, added:
Eh well, merchant of chance, do you have enough spirit to make us conceive that the chance have so much?
She meets Benjamin Franklin at the time of her voyage to Paris (1767). She sent to him the speech of Malesherbes against the removal of the Parliaments (1772).
She regularly accomplishes voyages towards London.
She carried out models for mushrooms with her friendly close relation Jacques Barbeu-Dubourg, which will be described in the Botanist (1767). She also brought some of the corrections the Franklin one to the text of the Œuvres of Mr. Franklin (1773). She accompanied Jonathan Williams at the time of her visit in Paris (1775).
The principal parts of its cabinet were relating to the childbirth, and quite lower than those which did then Puison and Laumonier: she did not imitate the delicate parts. Its cabinet was bought by the empress of Russia, Catherine II of Russia.
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