The human body is a crazy gizmo.
When you start thinking about how it works it can be overwhelming. I pop in a couple of slices of pizza for fuel and the thing just keeps on ticking.
Curious doctors, scientists and anatomists have tried to solve the puzzle that is the human body for centuries.
Japanese doctor Yasukazu Minagaki documented anatomy with his drawings of executed criminals in the early 1800s.
Most everyone has now heard of the Mutter Museum in Philadelphia, but there’s another unusual museum in Amsterdam that is based on the collections of a father and son. It showcases the body and anomalies in its form. From feet to skulls and everything in between, Gerardus Vrolik (1775–1859) and his son Willem Vrolik (1801–1863), both professors of anatomy, preserved both the normal and the deformed to teach their lessons.
Jar after jar filled with floating pale body parts.
The collection is now the heart of a museum named after the pair. The Vrolik Museum has grown with several other major collections added to the founders’ exhibits.
For more images of samples in the Vrolik Museum, check out this Flickr site.
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