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'Though you may have a love for such things you will perhaps be hindered by your stomach, and, if that does not impede you, you will perhaps be impeded by the fear of living through the night hours in the company of quartered and flayed corpses fearful to behold' - Leonardo da Vinci on studying corpses from the scaffold to further knowledge of anatomy.