An untitled 2-page notice by a Madras Civil Servant John Morris sleeved under ‘Scientific Intelligence’ in the inaugural issue of the Madras Journal of Literature & Science (1834) refers to a human anatomical model built by Louis Aujoux, a French physician–anatomist–model maker. Highly likely this model was used at the Madras Medical Establishment to teach basic medicine to trainees of the Subordinate Medical Service. This was brought to Madras by Surgeon George Knox of the Madras Medical Establishment in the early 1830s, before the establishment of the Madras Medical School under the superintendence of William Mortimer. A similar model was acquired by the Calcutta Medical Establishment a little earlier. The present article, keeping the human anatomical model as the central element, refers to the development of interest in designing human models for purposes of teaching medicine in Europe. That interest stimulated using such models in India as well. The present article also refers to the medical interests of the scholar–princes of Tanjavur and Travancore of the nineteenth century India, who maintained models of full human skeletons, not of bones but made of ivory, in their Curiosity Cabinets (Kunstkammern). From the 2-page notice of Morris, we understand that the model that came to Madras from France was a gift to the Government of Madras for teaching purposes. No further details are traceable.

马德拉斯公务员约翰·莫里斯 (John Morris) 在《马德拉斯文学与科学杂志》创刊号上的“科学情报”下发表的一份无标题的 2 页通知（1834 年）指的是由法国医生-解剖学家-模型制造商 Louis Aujoux 构建的人体解剖模型。极有可能在马德拉斯医疗机构使用此模型向下属医疗服务的受训人员教授基础医学。这是在 1830 年代初期由马德拉斯医疗机构的外科医生乔治诺克斯带到马德拉斯的，当时马德拉斯医学院在威廉莫蒂默的监督下成立。加尔各答医疗机构早些时候获得了一个类似的模型。本文以人体解剖模型为中心元素，指的是在欧洲为医学教学目的而设计人体模型的兴趣的发展。在印度使用此类模型也激发了这种兴趣。艺术学院）。从莫里斯的两页通知中，我们了解到从法国来到马德拉斯的模型是送给马德拉斯政府用于教学目的的礼物。没有进一步的细节可追溯。