Foreign Body Collection- Chevalier Jackson a doctor that studies disorders of the ears, nose, throat, head, and neck. He was a physician that worked in Philadelphia at the College Of Physicians in the 1900's. He was famous for developing new methods to remove foreign objects from the human body such as things lodged in his patient's airways. The foreign objects had to be removed and when he removed them from throats, esophagi, and lungs over his 75 years in medicine they are on display at the Mutter Museum. These 2,374 objects include buttons, pins, nuts, coins, bones, screws, and many more items.
You will find books or a book bound with human skin. Books bound in the skin of a woman Mary Lynch, that died from trichinosis ( a parasite that comes from pigs. During her autopsy, a portion of her skin was saved from her thigh and medical books about childbirth was bound with it.
Baby born with no skull- At the Mutter Museum one of the largest collections is what they call " wet specimens, " Parts of the human anatomy preserved in jars of formaldehyde. Because of the fragile nature, the 1,300 jars representing every part of the human anatomy are kept in constant rotation. One disturbing specimen is a baby born without a skull. A fetus that could not sustain life out of the womb.
Chang and Eng Bunker were Thai-American conjoined twins that were born in 1811 and died in 1874. Joined at the sternum and shared a liver. They were two fully grown men. That made a life for themselves in North Carolina, they married sisters. Chang had 11 children, Eng 10. The liver is now on display at the Mutter Museum, as is a death cast of their torso.
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