Ole Worm was a Danish physician and antiquarian who was the personal physician of King Christian IV of Denmark. Worm's chief contributions to medical science were in embryology, and as a natural philosopher, he assembled a vast collection of stuffed and mounted animals, fossils, and other curiosities. A collector of early literature in the Scandinavian languages, he wrote a number of treatises on rune stones and collected texts written in the runic alphabet. What are the Wormian bones?
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Ole Worm was a Danish physician and antiquarian who was the personal physician of King Christian IV of Denmark. Worm's chief contributions to medical science were in embryology, and as a natural philosopher, he assembled a vast collection of stuffed and mounted animals, fossils, and other curiosities. A collector of early literature in the Scandinavian languages, he wrote a number of treatises on rune stones and collected texts written in the runic alphabet. What are the Wormian bones?
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