What were the horros of surgery in the eighteenth century?
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Number 28 Leicester Square, in affluent late 18th-century London, was the home of the Scottish-born surgeon John Hunter and his wife Anne. Unremarkable on the exterior, the Hunter residence was rather unusual behind the front door. The reception rooms would have been normal enough for a wealthy family home, but the back of the house had been converted into an extraordinary museum for Hunter’s collection of anatomical samples (rows and rows of jars) and other natural oddities (such as a stuffed giraffe, and a whale skull).
The collection was designed to be seen, though strictly by invitation only. For the most part it was made up of Hunter’s own preparations – objects exciting an anatomists’ interest, in cases and jars, preparations vital to his teaching work (just as such preparations and dissections remain vital to the teaching of anatomy today). But this collection did have a dual role; it was partly a showcase for Hunter’s research and a tool for his teaching work, but it was also a cabinet of curiosities. There was the double-skull of the “two-headed boy of Bengal” for instance, a seven-year-old with a parasitic head attached to his own. He was exhibited by his parents, and seen by some official of the East India Company. When he died they shipped him to Hunter, and into the museum he went.
Now, over two centuries later, as John Hunter’s collection is brought back to life in a museum which opened at the Royal College of Surgeons in 2005, the unfortunate two-headed boy is still there.
When Hunter bought the Leicester Square house he also bought 13 Castle Street, the house that backed on to it (with the garden in-between), and built a sort of bridge between their facing back-walls. So the house seemed to extend further still – to a suite of rooms that once belonged to the back of the Castle Street property. This area beyond the museum was used to accommodate Mr Hunter’s students, with a lecture theatre where he could demonstrate experiments and dissections, and a grandly titled “conversazione room”.
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