Byline: Panagiota Tsoutsa

While wandering through the hallways of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave in Leiden, there is a room where one encounters a peculiar object that immediately catches the attention. In the “Medical Room”, inside a glass showcase that closely resembles a modern incubator, lies a fragmented pregnant doll accompanied by a fetus-like model (Fig. 1). This object bears…