Monday 21 September 2009

HUNTERIAN


The Hunterian Museum, at the Royal College of Surgeons, by Holborn, is rad. It's a lovely collection of bits of animal, people, all sitting in Formaldehyde for the last few hundred years, when some chap called Hunter collected them. Some of them are pretty fucked up- there's a section entitled 'Morbid Anatomy' which is bits of people saved after being inflicted with some nasty illnesses- there's a cross section of someone's face after their nose was rotted off by Syphilis, for example, amongst other favourites. Here are a couple of tasters that I managed to snap on the phone before getting a telling off,  and no, the Skull isn't mine....I particularly like the drawing of the person being hypnotized. I was my hands did that.