His brain was removed by his physician, François Magendie, and kept for many years, eventually being displayed in a roving anatomical museum in Britain.

Discusses death practices, role of dissection in medical professionalization and science, changes in the law concerning the disposition of bodies, riots against medical schools, popular anatomical texts, popular anatomical museums.

Thomson travelled in the Netherlands and Germany, visiting anatomical and pathological museums, and taking notes.

In 1813 he became a professor of anatomy and director of the anatomical museum at the University of Breslau.

During the 19th century, embryologists often obtained early human embryos from abortions and miscarriages, postmortems of pregnant women and collections in anatomical museums.

During his career he amassed a significant anatomical museum.

It has a medical school, an agricultural society, a geological museum, an anatomical museum, and a museum of natural history.

They will become the main attraction at a traveling anatomical museum, being developed by Dr. Glover and Mr. Corcoran, with help from Dow Corning.

The bodies being plastinated for the anatomical museum are unclaimed dead, people with no known next of kin.

When constructed, the two-story brick building was considered "state of the art", with a 100-seat amphitheater for lectures, anatomical museum, autopsy room, library, mental research laboratories, and a photography room.