Saturday, August 27, 2011

Mutter Museum famous for Skull Collection Hyrtl and other anatomical specimens



Mutter Museum is a medical museum located in the Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It contains a collection of medical oddities, anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment. This museum is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The original purpose of collection, donated by Dr. Thomas Dent Mutter in 1858, is a medical research and education. For the cost of one person can see the museum.

Mutter Museum famous for Skull Collection Hyrtl and other anatomical specimens including a wax model of a woman with horns growing out of his forehead along with a mold candles some conditions untreated head; highest frame currently on display in North America; intestinal nine-foot-long human containing more than 40 pounds of dirt which was originally derived from human action spectacle called the Balloon, and the body Soap Lady, a corpse turns himself into a substance called soap adipocere better known as grave wax. Many wax models from the early 19th century are on display as well as many preserved organs and body parts. Museum also hosts a collection of teratological specimens (preserved human fetal specimens) which are all donated to science, a malignant tumor removed from the hard palate of President Grover Cleveland; conjoined liver from the famous Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker, a piece of tissue removed from the chest Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, and part of the brain of Charles J. Guiteau who killed U.S. President James A. Garfield.

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