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Stethoscopes
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/stethoscopes/The first stethoscope was invented in 1819 by Rene Laennec, and enabled doctors to more confidently detect a heartbeat and identify the 'signs of death'.
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Safety coffins
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/safety-coffins/Fear of premature burial was widespread in 18th and 19th century Europe, leading to the invention of the safety coffin. Over thirty different designs were patented in Germany in the second half of the 19th century.
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Signs of death
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/signs-of-death/Among classical Greek and Roman societies the signs of death were the absence of a heartbeat and breathing, and the onset of putrefaction. In medieval times a candle was held to the mouth - a flicker of the candle was shown as a sign of life.
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Cycloid and Ctenoid Scales
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/fishes/cycloid-and-ctenoid-scales/Cycloid and ctenoid scales are found in the majority of bony fishes (the Teleostei).
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Fossils in Canowindra, NSW
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/canowindra/The Canowindra fossil fauna is a very rich Late Devonian fish fauna and is listed as part of Australia's National Heritage.
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Fossils in Grenfell, NSW
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/grenfell/The Grenfell fossil fauna represents the youngest Devonian locality in New South Wales, and includes a wide variety of placoderm, acanthodian and sarcopterygian fishes.
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Fossils in Alcoota, NT
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/alcoota/The grass-covered plains at Alcoota Station form a thin veneer over an enormous bed of fossil bones that are around eight million years old.
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Fossils in Naracoorte, SA
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/naracoorte/Pleistocene fossil vertebrate deposits of Victoria Fossil Cave at Naracoorte are considered to be Australia's largest and best preserved.
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Fossils in Lightning Ridge, NSW
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/lightning-ridge/Deposits at Lightning Ridge yield some of the rarest, most beautiful and precious fossils in the world.
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Fossils in Bluff Downs, QLD
https://australian.museum/learn/australia-over-time/fossils/sites/bluff-downs/Bluff Downs is recognised to be one of the most significant fossil sites of Pliocene age in Australia.
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