Grisly History of the Oldest US Medical Museum

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These astonishing pictures show a range of gruesome maladies which have struck Americans over the last two centuries.


Some of them - like a deformed foetus and a two-headed baby - are so grotesque they almost look like carnival attractions.  But these curiosities were collected with a more noble aim in mind - they form part of what may be the oldest medical museum in the United States.

The museum opened in 1849 as part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, which is the U.S.'s oldest medical society, having been founded in 1787.



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