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John Hunter's specimen collection (one of several galleries), now collected in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. Hunter pioneered surgical techniques in the eighteenth Century, using ethically questionable techniques (he was prolific in his use of stolen corpses), coming to be known as 'The Knife Man'. Specimens include human teeth grafted onto Cockerels and dissected elephant trunks. The Hunterian Museum is open to the public.

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