Flashlight tour of the Mütter Museum (medical museum in Philadelphia)

My wife and I love going to the Mütter Museum (we're both doctors, so we can appreciate a skull collection). Have you ever wondered what the Mütter Museum looks like in the dark?

Now is your chance to find out!

Go on a Flashlight Tour of the Mütter Museum, available exclusively to members of the Friends of the Mütter Museum!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 7PM and 8:30PM

Register here.

The College of Physicians of Philadelphia is the oldest medical society & the oldest steward of American Medicine, and is regarded as the “Birthplace of American Medicine”SM, offering insight into medicine’s past, present and future.

Our specimens, book collections, archives, personal journals and ephemera are more relevant today than ever – attracting more visitors and users of our collections and facilities than ever before in our history.

What's Eating You? People and Parasites

If you live near Philadelphia, you won't want to miss this lecture and book signing.

Eugene H. Kaplan is the Donald E. Axinn Endowed Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Conservation (emeritus) at Hofstra University. His many books include Sensuous Seas: Tales of a Marine Biologist (Princeton) and A Field Guide to Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores (Peterson Field Guides). His latest book, What’s Eating You? will be published by Princeton University Press in May 2010. In What’s Eating You?, Dr. Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the process introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite.

Thursday, June 03, 2010 from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM (ET)
Philadelphia, PA

Sponsored by the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Register here.

US Presidents and their health ailments displayed at the Mütter Museum

Happy President's Day!

The Mütter Museum is a fascinating medical museum in Philadelphia, PA. If you've never had a chance to visit this museum, you'll definitely have to visit. You can learn about some of the medical problems faced by former US presidents (I doubt they'll have anything about Barak Obama). Did you know that John F. Kennedy had Addison's disease? How about Bill Clinton and his cardiovascular disease? Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States, had Crohn's disease.

According to RoadsideAmerica.com:

Two celebrity body parts are must sees: the "Secret Tumor of Grover Cleveland," and the "Thorax of John Wilkes Booth." Grover's growth floats in a small jar, surreptitiously removed from his jaw while he was in office. Lincoln's Assassin's thorax was procured during the post mortem aboard a ship at the Washington Navy Yard. It ended up here.

If you enjoy US history and you wish to learn more about some of the specific medical problems that afflicted US presidents, then make sure to visit the Mütter Museum.