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The kettle in which the body was boiled, together with some
interesting literature relative to the circumstances, are
preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in
London, and were exhibited at the meeting of the British Medical
Association in 1895 with other Hunterian relics. The skeleton,
which is now one of the features of the Museum, is reported to
measure 92 3/4 inches in height, and is mounted alongside that of
Caroline Crachami, the Sicilian dwarf, who was exhibited as an
Italian princess in London in 1824. She did not grow after birth
and died at the age of nine.
Patrick Cotter, the successor of O'Brien, and who for awhile
exhibited under this name, claiming that he was a lineal
descendant of the famous Irish King, Brian Boru, who he declared
was 9 feet in height, was born in 1761, and died in 1806 at the
age of forty-five. His shoe was 17 inches long, and he was 8 feet
4 inches tall at his death.
In the Museum of Madame Tussaud in London there is a wax figure
of Loushkin, said to be the tallest man of his time. It measures
8 feet 5 inches, and is dressed in the military uniform of a
drum-major of the Imperial Preobrajensky Regiment of Guards. To
magnify his height there is a figure of the celebrated dwarf,
"General Tom Thumb," in the palm of his hand.
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