Designed for perusal by present and future members of a dignified profession, the museum is two floors of dark wood-trimmed display cases with a library-like stateliness.

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.

Perhaps the oddest attraction is the body of the “Soap Woman.”

This is the body of a woman who died of Yellow Fever sometime in the 19th century and was buried in soil with certain chemical properties that turned her into soap.

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