Inside the Yale student body
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:50am April 06 2016
You’ll find Yale’s first microscope, a gorilla skeleton, dinosaur bones, and plenty of other wonderful artifacts in the Peabody Museum’s sesquicentennial exhibition, Treasures of the Peabody, on display until January 8. But of course, we have to share the one thing we couldn’t unsee: a 16-foot-long, 120-year-old tapeworm removed from a Yale student in 1896.
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