Two tables provided candy, coloring, and Halloween - styled skeletons with their
bones labeled, providing fun entertainment to
about 150 children.
The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel
about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to
bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling
labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»