Theodore Louis Auzoux, a French physician and anatomist, born at St. Aubin d'Ecroville, department of the Euro, about 1797. He is celebrated as the inventor of a new method of making permanent models of anatomical preparations in papier mache, an art known under the French name of anatomie clastique. The advantages of this method are: 1st, that the material used is light, not easily broken, and unaffected by the atmosphere at all ordinary temperatures; 2d, that minute parts can be represented in enlarged dimensions, and colored to imitate nature; and 3d, that the pieces representing the different parts of an organ and the different organs of the body can be separated from each other and put together at will. Dr. Auzoux completed his invention by 1825, and established a manufactory at St. Aubin for the production of anatomical models. He obtained a gold medal for his anatomical preparations at the French exposition of 1834, honorable mention in 1839 and 1844, and a second gold medal in 1849. He received the cross of the legion of honor in 1834. At one time he gave annual courses of lectures upon anatomy and physiology, illustrated by the aid of his own preparations.

His published works are: Considerations generates sur Vana-tomie; Memoire sur le cholera-morbus, etc. (Paris, 1832); Lecons elementaires d'anatomie et de physiologie (1839; 3d ed., 1858); Des tares moiles et osseuses dans le cheval (1853);

Insuffisance des chevaux forts et legers, du che-val de guerre et de luxe, etc. (1860).