Why the Rhinoceros?

This work of art hangs in the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons and is painted by Stubbs. The Indian Rhinoceros has a special place in the history of endocrine surgery. The parathyroid glands were first discovered in this animal in 1849 by the Naturalist and Anatomist, Sir Richard Owen. Also demonstrated in the dog, the parathyroid glands were not found in humans until 1880 by Ivor Sandstrom, a Swedish medical student.