Part of the macabre collection of medical abnormalities at Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum is a piece of President Grover Cleveland’s jaw floating in a brownish fluid. It is the evidence of one of the ...

Like the human horn composed of compacted keratin, or President Grover Cleveland’s jaw tumor, the Mütter Museum is in growth mode. The museum of medical oddities and bizarre anatomy — including ...

The Mutter Museum, a 19th-century repository of medical oddments and arcana at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, attracts as many as 160,000 visitors a year. Among the anatomical and patho… ...

Look at anatomical mysteries in the Mutter Museum is ranked #5 out of 34 things to do in Philadelphia. See pictures and our review of Look at anatomical mysteries in the Mutter Museum.

So Cleveland decided to have the tumor secretly removed. The plan was for the president to announce he was taking a friend's yacht, the Oneida, on a four-day fishing trip from New York to his ...

President Cleveland When Grover Cleveland contracted cancer, it didn’t kill his career; it killed someone else’s. In early June of 1893, President Grover Cleveland discovered a large tumor on ...

At the Mütter Museum, that includes skulls, limbs and gallstones. The medical museum has been shining a light on the inner workings of mankind for 160 years. Glass cases display human skeletons ...

According to Algeo, the story of Grover Cleveland's secret tumor is part of a long history of cover-ups when it comes to presidential illness. In 1919, Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke and was ...

In the summer of 1893 and at the beginning of an economic depression, President Grover Cleveland disappeared for four days to have secret surgery on a yacht. Author Matthew Algeo recounts the ...