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Nature 434, 23 (3 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434023a; Published online 2 March 2005

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Museum:  A medical history

Whether your interest lies in anatomy, pathology, surgery or the history of science, or, like myself, you are just curious, the reopening last month of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in London is an event to be celebrated.Although only 3,500 of the Hunterian's collection of some 65,000 items survived the bombing of the museum in 1941 (right), the remainder of this great eighteenth-century 'cabinet of curios' still ranges over an extraordinary and wonderful breadth of natural science.

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