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Hidden treasures: Padua's anatomy theatre

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Alison Abbott finds that human dissections during the Renaissance were rather respectable after all.

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See http://tinyurl.com/56w942 and http://www.musei.unipd.it/en/index.html for further details. For more Hidden Treasures see http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/hiddentreasures .

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