Pictures from the Specola

The human head from the side...The little yellow ball-shaped things next to the ear and mouth are salivary glands.



This is the only inaccurate display in the museum: in the 1700s, people believed that, instead of starting out with the embryo and fetus, babies were just tiny but complete human bodies and they simply grew larger while in the uterus:





The body senza skin:




*All pictures taken from Google Images