The Creepiest Artifacts in Museums Around the World

Gout Hands

These jarred hands were kept by medical scientists in order to study the effects of gout on a person. The bulbous knuckles were not post-mortem, but from gout that the person suffered from before they died. Gout was very common in the 19th century. 

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