Skull and Crossbones May 23, 2008
Today was a disgusting day. I went to the Hunterian Museum, and I’m really glad I didn’t go right before dinner. The museum holds old medical samples, mutated bones and diseased tissues, as well as pickled body parts. Yummy! I had the pleasure of seeing a “maggot buried in the skin of a reindeer”, a “fetal foal with its membranes”, and “part of the face of a child with smallpox showing postules that have burst and ulcerated”. It was disgusting, yet very educational. I couldn’t take photographs unfortunately (I could have taken some good ones for you!), and I found out from the guy sitting at the front desk that a government regulation prevents people from taking photos in London museums. I’m still going to plead ignorance at the next museum I go to.
I didn’t do anything else because I felt sick.
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