October 16, 2018
Excerpt from The Fate of Anatomical Collections, Chapter 5 Resilient Collections : The long life of Leiden’s earliest Anatomical Collections by Tim Huisman
“Leiden’s anatomy hall is a brick building, the exterior of which looks quite unprepossessing. Inside one finds two theatres – or ‘snykammer’ as the Dutch call them – for anatomical demonstrations: a public one and a private theatre. … In the latter various glass cases contain the excellent anatomical preparations of Dr Rau … next to that one sees the portrait of Solingen, and the famous knife swallower, the head of an elephant, and three mummies.”
Source: The Fate of Anatomical Collections Rina Knoeff, Robert Zwijnenberg. Ashgate Publishing Company (2015)
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