Joseph Banks - Endeavour Journal, 25 August 1768 - 12 July 1771 - No. 0032
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the convenience of administering the sacrament to the sick, on the other were the wards, each just capable of containing a bed, & lind with white duch tiles; to every one of these was a door communicating with a gallery which ran paralel to the great room, so that any of the sick might be supplied with whatever they wanted without disturbing their neighbours.
In this Convent was a curiosity of a very singular nature; a small chapel whose whole lining, wainscote, & ceiling, was intirely compos'd of human bones two Large thigh bones across, & a skull in each of the openings. [See image for drawing.] Among these was a very singular anatomical curiosity, a skull in which one side of the Lower jaw was perfectly, & very firmly fastned to the upper by an ossification, so that the man whoever he was must have livd