Diseases in Wax the History of the Medical Moulage, Thomas Schnalke: Medical Moulage now means a form of theatrical makeup used to give medical responders a more realistic experience when the perform a disaster response exercise, but until the mid 1950s they used to be three dimensional wax figures. The figures represent pathological changes in the human body. This book, illustrated with many color photographs, describes the history of the art of moulaging, which had its beginnings in the anatomical wax figures of the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, physicians in newly formed special disciplines of medicine requested models of illness from their fields of competence. This demand was met with moulages. The moulage, a realistic object that could be painted and formed lent itself to the representation of those illnesses that appeared on the epidermis, or at least produced changes on the surface of the skin. How could such an illustrative teaching material, which still exists today in a number of medical schools and museums, have fallen so completely into oblivion? This book provides the answers to those questions.