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News item: "The physician with a scalpel wore bright blue scrubs and a
signature black fedora. The cadaver lay on a metal tray below a large
copy of Rembrandt’s ‘Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp." In the
former brewery in East London, the television cameras turned, a paying
audience squirmed and Britain’s first public autopsy in 170 years–since
the practice was banned to discourage body-snatching–was under way.
Ghoulish? Maybe. Grotesque? Perhaps."
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