Susanna Phelps Gage Susanna Phelps Gage Susanna Phelps Gage (1857–1915) was an American embryologist and comparative anatomist. She initially worked on the anatomy of small animals and humans, later shifting into neurology to study the embryological development of the brain and the anatomy of the human nervous system. She also developed a new and widely adopted method for making anatomical teaching models out of paper rather than wax. Although Susanna Phelps Gage was a respected embryologist and camparative anatomist, her work was often ignored. Like most other women scientists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were married to scientists, Gage's
Anatomical Theatre of Padua anatomical demonstrations, only in the late sixteenth century he was formally charged with the teaching of Anatomy. In 1404, during his stay in Vienna, Galeazzo di Santa Sofia undertook the first solemn public dissection, a practice he had obviously first seen and carried out in Padua. Moritz Roth, the great Vesalius Scholar, observes: The turning point would have happened thanks to the contribution of Alessandro Benedetti, an Italian anatomist: in 1514, "Anatomice sive historia corporis humani", the main of his works, was reprinted in Paris. This allowed the spread of his directives for the construction and the organization of a