Amongst the wonderful relics collected by the eccentric tycoon Sir Henry Wellcome: Napoleon's Toothbrush. Florence Nightingale's slippers. A case full of eyeballs. Self-crucifying sandals. A rusty torture chair. A vast collection of steel and wooden limbsA desiccated mummy, curled fetally. The Scold's Bridle: a metallic face mask used to silence nagging wives. Even Darwin's Walking Stick, capped with an ivory human skull. Many of these acquisitions were made as part of his obsessive collecting of pharmaceutical and medical devices; others are just morbidly inscrutable, and therefore wonderful additions to the mnemonic museum that is brightly illuminated whenever the ToM writers close their eyes and dream.
Things that make you go urrgh! [The Sun]
