The Sun.
London, England, 1841-05-08 00:00:00

ANATOM [CAL' MODELS.

The society of Arts, at their meeting on Wednesday even-
ing last, voted their Gold Lis Medal to Mr. Simpson, surgeon
to the Westminster General Dispensary, for the application of
papier 2nache to the making of anatomical figures and models
of morbid anatomy.

Mr. Simpson, some sears ago, turned his attention to the
constructing of anatomical models, in ceasequence of the (dill-
culty and expense at that time attendant in procuring subjects
for dissection.

The materials iu general use for anatomical models were
wax and plaster, of which the former was found to be ten ex-
pensive to come within the means of lecturers and students in
general, and was too delicate to be handled in the lecture room,
without incurring the chance of considerable damage- The
plaster of Paris mcdeis were also objectionable on account of
their great weight and britt!eness. The material which Mr.
Simpson uses, is paper, worked into moulds,
taken from dissec-
tions; this produces a model of extreme lightness, anti is so
hard that it may be freely handled without danger or damage.
The external surface is pi,inted in oil colour, representing- the
appearance of the dissection. The right side of the figutiriee
which Mr. Simpson exhibited to the ,Socicty, representsride,
superficial arteries, veins, nerves anti muscles ; the left
seated
u ei s, c
,e rea.
shows the second and third layers of muscles, the .. deep .
operations.
vessels, and more particularly those parts concerned m surgical
The internal parts are removeablc, so as toae,xlvi,ibit the na-
; the
Tong
brain and its members ; the spidn
tural arrangement of the thcracic and
arrabdoown:
that his invention would be
Mr. Simps.n having coneeive
of Anatomy in warmparticularly serviceable for the study
be used, nor the cli-
mates, where wax models cannot natural sub-
ject be conveniently dissected, submitted ea, he some specimens
Company, who
to the Honourable East India some time since
purchased forty
of his figures, which we; e sent to various set-
tlements in India forth use of the eEuropean surgeons, as also
for the instruction of the nativesurgeons, who were a4sistants
military hospitals ; the
in the Company's . from dissections.
.religion of the latter
studying nom cussections.
prohibiting their
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COMMISSION OF LUNACY.---EXTRAORDl-
PCmhilnilimmoi7eir WionfsloLwu,naancdy
E • Arms 'l'
• at the Eyre Tavern, St. John's Wood, to in-
quire3lurra) ,
into the state of mind of Mrs. Maria Ramsay, formerly 'of
.s.pa-k. Mr. A. J. Stephens,
Park-streets, Grosvenor-square, and now of No. 1, Grove-read,
vaNssonpse-neD.cit teufeoiroes.c—Yesterday
mission, observed, in support of the Corn-
that Mrs: Ramsay was the daughter of a
wealty gentleman, named Ferrier, lately residing at Tusmore,
in Oxfordshire, and wile, upon his death, devised to her very
considerable landed property, which was upon her decease to
pass to her chilli en. Airs. Ramsay had formed a matrimo-
nial alliance with a gentleman of private fortune, and the fruits
Regent
of the union had been six children, namely, five sons and one
daughter, the eldest of whom had not attained the age of thir-
teen. In 1838 Mrs. Ramsay was first affected in her mind.
In July last her husband was afflicted with dropsy, which soon
afterwards proved fatal, and since his death the unfortunate
lady's intellects had been so much impaired that he was
fearful no improvement would take place. The pre-
sent proceeding had therefore been adopted at the instance of
Miss Harriet Eliza Ramsay, the sister-in-law of the object cf
this inquiry, with the view of protecting the interests of the
unfortunate lady and those of her fani.ly.
Ir. Ramsay la-
The Learned Coun-
sel then stated the delusions under which
boured, and ob.crved that she had only completed her 34th
year in April last. Evidence having been given, Mrs. Ram-
, say was introduced into the room. She was dressed in deep
mourning, and laughed as she approached the Commissioners.
In person she is tall, with an elegant gait, and an extremely
pleasing- countenance. In the course of her examination she
declared her inability to take care of herself, her property, or
children, assigning as a reason that she was dead, and al.
though the Learned Commissioners took considerable pains to
convince her that she laboured under a delusion, she obsti-
nately persisted in her assertion that she had ceased to exist.
The Jury found that she had been of unsound mind, and in-
capable of taking care of herself or of her property, since the
It.th of November, 1640.