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    Five Curiosities From Medical History

    Photos from the Mütter Museum’s newly searchable collection. The post Five Curiosities From Medical History appeared first on Nautilus.
    by Liz Greene Oct 31, 2023 3 minutes

    In a beaux-arts building in central Philadelphia lurks a vast and unusual collection: It includes a tumor extracted from President Grover Cleveland, slices of Albert Einstein’s brain, and a large assemblage of skulls, swallowed foreign objects, forceps, and other medical miscellany.

    Dating to 1858, the collection was started with the goal of improving training for physicians by providing them with models and tools from which to learn. In the intervening 165 years, it has grown to more than 30,000 items,.

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