Byrne and a Normal Skeleton

Byrne and a Normal Skeleton .
McGill Library Islamic Lithographs digital collection. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/islamic_lithographs/fullrecord.php?ID=2036. Web. 20 July, 2024. PDF file.

Photograph of two skeleton specimens in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons, England. The taller specimen is the skeleton of Charles Byrne (1761-1783), one of a number of "Irish giants" who displayed themselves for profit in the 18th and 19th centuries. The surgeon John Hunter (1728-1793) managed to acquire the body (which measured 7-feet 7-inches tall) after Byrne's death.

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