Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Top 17 Reasons to Visit the Mutter Museum


1)Skeletons of a giant and a midget
2)Broken bones
3)Pott's Disease Skeletons
4)Skull Collections, including the Muniz collection of trephinated Peruvian skulls (trephinated means 'holes cut in them' folks)
5)"Brain Of A Murderer" - John Wilson hanged in Norristown, PA
6)"Brains of epileptics"
7)Longitudinal slices of the head, showing brain
8)Brain of animals arranged from tiny frog to man, often with eyes attached
9)Large collection of baby deformities (stay away from Accutane, ladies and try Proactive).
10)Hearing apparatti of mammals in butterfly collection-like cases.
11)Photo of Lyndon Johnson lifting his shirt to show off his gall bladder operation scar
12)Wax Renderings of Eye Disease Problems
13)Iron Lung in the polio exhibit
14)The Big Colon
15) Objects swallowed and removed
16)The thorax of John Wilkes Booth
17) The secret tumor of Grover Cleveland

Pick a favorite! It's almost impossible to narrow it down!

1 comment:

newbluebaby said...

Philadelphia rules.