What are some of the interesting artifacts in the museums collection that are not on display?
The list of artifacts not on display is constantly changing, because artifacts are placed on display or taken off display depending on the need to use them in exhibits that change over time. Some of the interesting artifacts not currently on display are: John Wilkes Booth’s 3rd, 4th and 5th Cervical (Neck) Vertebrae • A segment of John Wilkes Booth’s spine • A gangrenous human foot • Microscope slides of Ulysses S. Grant’s tumor • A mummified human dicephalic infant (co-joined twins) • Colons from Civil War soldiers who suffered from diarrheal disease, in some cases for many months • The brain and partial skeleton of President Garfield’s assassin • General Pershing’s dentures • Pershings denturesThe leg of a chicken, showing an experimentally induced cancer, used by Nobel Prize winner Peyton Rous • Surgical instruments made from scrap aluminum by the Viet Cong • Vases found at Hiroshima after atomic attack • New York City Medical Examiner’s Collection • George Lord’s pocket surgical ki
The list of artifacts not on display is constantly changing, because artifacts are placed on display or taken off display depending on the need to use them in exhibits that change over time. Some of the interesting artifacts not currently on display are: • A segment of John Wilkes Booth’s spine • A gangrenous human foot • Microscope slides of Ulysses S. Grant’s tumor • A mummified human dicephalic infant (co-joined twins) • Colons from Civil War soldiers who suffered from diarrheal disease, in some cases for many months • The brain and partial skeleton of President Garfield’s assassin • General Pershing’s dentures • The leg of a chicken, showing an experimentally induced cancer, used by Nobel Prize winner Peyton Rous • Surgical instruments made from scrap aluminum by the Viet Cong • Vases found at Hiroshima after atomic attack • New York City Medical Examiner’s Collection • George Lord’s pocket surgical kit (Regimental Surgeon for General Custer’s 7th Cavalry at Little Big Horn) TOP 42
