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Although the Dittrick Museum's collections primarily focus on medical tools and artifacts, a close look around the galleries reveals a few human specimens ever ready to greet visitors with perpetual (and sometimes toothless) smiles. Like the surgical sets and pharmaceuticals they're featured next to, these specimens were also tools -- tools used to teach students about the human body.
Our collections include many...