| Show STRANGE CHARTS Mit Fannie B ElUins Makes Wonderful Won-derful Pathological Specimens Her Sketches Water Colors Photographs Pho-tographs Are Made and Taken In the Dissecting boat nUll Used Afterwards 11 y Physicians and i Medical Students I seems strange for a woman to invade in-vade the dissecting room and through art to lend a helping hand to science yet this i the calling Miss Fannie B Elkins has chosen and followed successfully The work is in charts color plates process and halftoned drawins which she makes from dissections dis-sections photographs and from sketches or books She is familiar with the uses of the opthalmoscope larnyg oscope otoscope microscope and cam eralucida and has frequent use for all of them She also models and colors rathulogical specimens in hard plaster or papier mache with equal facility In her studio she has a long table on which she makes casts of any part of the human anatomy desired Her work is used by the medical students in all our leading colleges Before Be-fore Miss Elkins gave her attention to the subject the students were forced to make their necessary observations from sawed up slices of humanity frozen or preserved in alcohol Whether the increased number of the gentler sex thronging the medical school had its influence or not this method suddenly found disfavor Then a Frenchman came to the rescue reproducing re-producing the sections in tinted casts sectons but the work was not delicate or true in color or detail and found scant favor with the professors About this time Miss Elkins who was a teacher in the Packer institute Brooklyn was called upon by her family physician to make some large anatomical charts As she had always felt a keen interest in anatomy the charts proved no small success and the doctor showed his appreciation by assisting her to obtain ain other work Very soon the irksome routine of a teachers life gave nlace to the interests of science The doctors doc-tors all welcomed Miss Elkins assisting assist-ing her in every way her gentle womanly wom-anly demeanor winning universal respect re-spect Whenever a physician has an unusual un-usual case he wishes to put on record this little woman is his companion sitting quietly by with pencil in hand water colors and paper doing her work whip the doctor does his All of the medical journals now published have illustrations br Miss Elkins but the triumph of her career has been her pathological specimens which by far outclass those ofilie Frenchman indelicate in-delicate accurate handling each tiny nerve and vein being depicted with a fidelity greatly delighting the medical men Almost every wellknown physician in the country has had at one time or ether need of Miss Elkins services and I has had to pay well for them too I Despite her rather unusual calling I 1musual calng I Miss Elkirs is very womanly in appearance I ap-pearance She is rather small even for a woman has dark hair a trim figure fig-ure and powerful fact glasses emphasizing empha-sizing the character She talks with great earnestness and frequently al ludes to the new fielQs which are open ing to women Ott the walls of her studio are the exhibits which have won for her the Medal of Merit at the II Cotton State International Exhibition held at Atlanta Ga in 1895 and the medal and sword at the Worlds fair The Worlds fair sword was granted to her for best colors accuracy and I beauty A curious painting in her I studio represents the heart of a sheep I painted in color after being cut open to show the valves of the heart Thus it will be se 1 that Miss Elkins takes a higher inTerest in eatables than the average woman I |
