Musée Dupuytren items subsequently lost or destroyed. However, in 1967 Jacques Delarue (1901–1971) brought the museum back to life with a general refurbishment. Today it still retains a superb collection, including specimens dating from the 17th century, as well as wax anatomical models, books, and photographs. Among many other notable items, the museum contains brains of aphasic patients, preserved in alcohol by the celebrated anatomist Paul Pierre Broca, and used in his research in the localization of brain functions. Musée Dupuytren The Musée Dupuytren was a museum of wax anatomical items and specimens illustrating diseases and malformations. It was located at the
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