The museum recently began an initiative to encourage visitors to adopt a skull.
Dr. Matthew Cryer, a physician and dentist who was around during the early 1900s, prepared the slice to study the development of oral and sinus cavity formation and development.
The museum also owns pieces of rib bones that were from a person with rickets. Rickets is a disease caused by a deficiency in vitamin D and results in the softened bones.
According to Dr. Robert Hicks, the director of the museum, a jar of picked human skin smells faintly like Romano cheese.
According to Dr. Hicks, the Zulus in South Africa used hippo fat to cure stomachaches.
The Zulus also contributed human aphrodisiacs to the Mütter Museum.
At the Mütter Museum, they have a jar of bedbugs that were extracted from a patient’s ear.