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Skull fragments
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BBD a10037573
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FF Free-floaters
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Three pieces of Beethoven's skull removed by Franz Romea Seligmann after the first exhumation of Beethoven's body in 1863; in possession of Seligmann's nephew as of 1987 (cf. Hans Bankl & Hans Jesserer, Die Krankheiten Ludwig van Beethovens (Vienna: Maudrich, 1987); Anton Neumayr, Music & medicine: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Bloomington, IL: Medi-Ed Press, 1994))
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Skull
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Exhumations