Not like CSI: How pathologists really rebuild lives after death
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We all remember our sliding-door moments, but few can match David Ransonâs. He was cutting into a body when the chap next to him made a suggestion that would change his life.
He was elbow-deep in an autopsy as part of his final forensic pathology exams in London. The postgraduate student working on the next table was Dr Charles Naylor, who was about to move to Brisbane (he is now Queenslandâs Chief Pathologist).
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The story of Halford s flute boy , and what it tells us about the European trade in human remains
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AprApril 2021 at 7:00pm
This skeleton came to Melbourne with the University of Melbourne s first professor of medicine . and an incredible backstory.
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At the height of the French Revolution in the late 1700s, a boy sat on the steps of the Notre-Dame cathedral playing a lilting tune on his wooden recorder.
Parisians hurried by, occasionally casting a glance towards the child, perhaps throwing a few coins his way.
But what may have caused them to stop mid-stride was the sight of his legs or, rather, leg. The boy s two thighs were fused at his knee and his leg ended in a single foot.
This is no ordinary set of bones.
Seated on a pedestal, and posing with a recorder, legend has it this is the skeleton of a boy with a rare condition and who led an extraordinary life in French Revolution Paris.
But is Halford s flute boy for real?
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