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Hunterian Museum

Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3PE Full details & map

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The museum houses one of the oldest collections of anatomical, pathological and zoological specimens in the UK and is based on the items assembled by John Hunter, surgeon and anatomist (1728-1793). The collection comprises more than 3,500 anatomical and pathological preparations, fossils, paintings and drawings and also includes specimens donated by Edward Jenner and Sir Joseph Banks. Exhibits include the skeleton of the 7ft 7in tall 'Irish giant' Charles Byrne, a collection of surgical instruments dating from the seventeenth century, carbolic sprays used by Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic surgery, the tooth of a megatherium (an extinct giant sloth) donated by Charles Darwin - and Winston Churchill's dentures.

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Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE

Hunterian Museum

The Hunterian Museum houses one of the oldest collections of anatomical, pathological and zoological specimens in the UK and is based on the items...

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Transport Holborn 

Telephone

020 7869 6560

http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums

10am-5pm Tue-Sat

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By eloise - Mar 15 2011

aweome place - freaky as, but such an important document of london history!

i read bill bryson's 'short history of the world' and this is the most awesome real evidence of the discoveries in medicine ever!

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