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<\/a><\/p>\nBurying victims in a mass grave<\/em><\/p>\n In December it was reported in The Hinckley Enterprise that a local boy, while searching for a Christmas tree, had found the body of George Best near the old home a mile east of town. No inquest was held, as it was assumed he died on September 1 in the fire. The two surviving brothers buried another member of their family.<\/p>\n Culled from:\u00a0From the Ashes: The Story of the Hinckley Fire of 1894<\/a> <\/p>\n From\u00a0Atlas Obscura:<\/a> “The museum also contains a wonderful collection of antique scientific instruments, natural history displays, and an old operating theater.”<\/p>\n There’s a lovely collection of photos at the\u00a0Morbid Curiosity Flick page<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe Morbid Sightseer: Netherlands!<\/h3>\n
Museum Boerhaave<\/a>\u00a0(Leiden, Netherlands)<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\n“The museum, named for Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch physician and botanist, displays over four hundred years of advances in knowledge in a building that dates back to the 1500s. Originally the St. Caecilia nunnery, then a \u201cplague hospital and madhouse,\u201d the historic building was converted to a university hospital in 1653. In 1720, Herman Boerhaave gave a famous series of lectures known as the \u201csickbed lessons,\u201d marking the beginning of clinical teaching and of the academic hospital in its modern form. In 1991, the St. Caecilia nunnery took its current form as a museum, where displays of human pathology bring to mind a different sort of \u201clife after death\u201d – that of the medical specimen.<\/p>\n