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This lecture traces two parallel histories. The first is the wider historical context of the acquisitions of medical cadavers and the Anatomy Act of 1832, which lead to Sammy’s post mortem history and use as a teaching specimen at University College, Cork. The second is written in the visible physical pathology of the skeleton itself. It illuminates the story of the life of the poor in Ireland from the Great Famine in the first half of the nineteenth century until Sammy’s remains became a teaching aid around the 1880s.