19TH-CENTURY MEDICAL ODDITIES, GRAVE ROBBERS & A CHARRED VENUS | Curator | Dr. Jamie Day

Dr. Jamie Day is a physics professor & the curator of the Monroe Moosnick Medical & Science Museum [a collection of 19th-century medical oddities & science equipment] at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. This morbid tour through the old cabinets leads us into trepanning, electrified corpses, syphilis, phrenology, grave robbing students, a mummified child, country doctors, folk medicine hairballs & much, much more. For his personal story, Jamie describes an unnerving find in the university's storage, that of a charred, 200-year-old wax model known as an Anatomical Venus. In closing, we hear of some of the collection's wildest oddities we nearly forgot about: a figurine of a parasitic twin & a comically grotesque tobacco pipe!

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Music provided by New Trinity Baroque

"Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2. I. Allegro e non presto"
Written by Tomaso Albinoni
Performed by New Trinity Baroque & Nevena Majdevac
Courtesy of Predrag Gosta of New Trinity Baroque

"Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2. II. Adagio"
Written by Tomaso Albinoni
Performed by New Trinity Baroque & Nevena Majdevac
Courtesy of Predrag Gosta of New Trinity Baroque

"Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9, No. 2. III. Allegro"
Written by Tomaso Albinoni
Performed by New Trinity Baroque & Nevena Majdevac
Courtesy of Predrag Gosta of New Trinity Baroque

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