Science gets into the body.
Davinci drew from death.Though his
drawings
were beautiful, they were not
always anatomically
accurate:
he always drew a hole near the
heart where
the soul could escape.
These
are the limbs.
How wonderful our brain is.
Some lift it out of the body,
cut into the skin and have a look:
Some hover over shoulders of cadavers.
There
is a lot of light, an antiseptic smell.
We ask them: take
us to the body:
Mostly skin,
with flaps, parts
of the body lift out.
There is a bin
marked hands and arms. You open it,
and the hands and
shoulders
are soaking in
preserving fluid.
You reach in and
grab whichever
you like.
There are heads
cut in half, --half-faces on a table look
just like meat.
After you warm up, they are just heads on a table.
They are
assymetrically cut to keep the teeth and jaw bone.
The dental schools usually get the heads.