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FEW even of those who constantly make use of the College of Surgeons' Museum can be aware of trie vast wealth of material stored there. For it contains not only the greatest anatomical collection in existence, representative of everything included under the term “anatomy” in its widest sense; but it also includes a unique pathological museum, and collections illustrating anthropology, teratology, odontology, and the anatomy of animals and plants, each of which, if standing alone, would make a famous museum. Nor does this exhaust its claims on our interest, for in it is housed the famous collection made by John Hunter, innumerable anatomical and pathological preparations that have served as material for the master-builders of the sciences of anatomy and pathology, and specimens illustrating the history of all that relates to the preservation of dead bodies (starting from the earliest known mummy), the evolution of surgical and dental instruments, and the manifold curiosities of medical science which at various times engaged the attention of the ever-inquisitive Hunter.
Illustrated Guide to the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England.
Pp. vi + 132. By Prof. Arthur Keith. (London: Issued by order of the Council of the College, and sold by Taylor and Francis, 1910.) Price 6d.
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Illustrated Guide to the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, England . Nature 84, 296 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084296b0
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