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• Tooth transplants and pickled penises: inside the revamped Hunterian

  12-05-2023 15:45
  
  The new look museum still contains John Hunter’s curiosities – from giant skeletons to toad births – but now acknowledges the ethical issues they poseWhen he wasn’t wrestling his pet bull, slicing open the corpses of freshly hanged criminals, or studying the seasonal changes in sparrow testicles, John Hunter could be found probing the nether regions of female silk moths. The 18th-century surgeon, anatomist and all-round polymath was keen to find out if he could artificial
  
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• Chinese glories, last rites revised and hypermodern tapestry – the week in art

  12-05-2023 15:34
  
  The cultural treasures of Qing China, fresh takes on funeral urns and a creative response to being doxed – all in your weekly dispatchChina’s Hidden Century
  Blockbuster survey of China in the 19th century, when the imperial era was coming to an end.
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