Hunterian Museum

This guide to the Hunterian Museum in London opens in a London lodging house in June 1783, where a dying young Irishman known as the Irish Giant gives his companions strict instructions for his burial, terrified of what the city's surgeons might do to his body. It follows the surgeon John Hunter, whose hunger for anatomical specimens drove one of the great collections of Georgian science, and his student Edward Jenner, who went on to invent vaccination. You'll hear how Hunter built a collection meant to put medicine on the footing of evidence rather than guesswork. Look closely at the jars and bones as you move through the room.