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Irish (male)

By Lisa Temple-Cox 2016
Drawn in situ in Edinburgh University's anatomy museum, this drawing is of one of the city's more notorious former inhabitants - and one who had a considerable influence on the legal history of surgery and medicine. Drawn in biro over a transfert-collé of a map of Edinburgh from around the time that the museum was founded.
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beaded baby, Boerhaave Museum

Babirusa, Pitt-Rivers

G10721 (R) tuberculosis, Surgeon's Hall Museum, Edinburgh

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