Rachel Ingold, left, shows a 17th century flap book about anatomy to first-year Duke Medicine students Jennifer Kang, center, and Jane Reeves Ellis, right.
Ingold, the curator of Duke's History of Medicine Collection, helped organize the annual Anatomy Day on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Medical students browsed through items ranging from copies of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical studies dating from 1489-1513, to carefully crafted anatomical atlases such as Johann Remmelin's anatomical flap-book "Catoptrum Microcosmicum" (1619), pictured above.
Kang could hardly tear herself away from the Remmelin flap book long enough to view the other historical artifacts. "These flap books combine words and pictures so you can really get in there and learn," she said. "They are great because anatomy is not two-dimensional."