They state at the beginning of the film that they show interesting cases of diseases that were prevalent a century ago when left untreated by western medicine. I had a hard time accepting that their "main selling point" or purpose of the museum was to provide examples for medical students to observe these cases that are most certainly irrelevant today. It is clear the museum disguises its advertisement to see freak things for medicinal purposes.
The only example of a school today that actually used part of the exhibit was on the man whose tissue turned into bone. "This disease is called fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) - considered one of the most rarest, most disabling genetic conditions, in which inflammation causes the body's soft tissues to turn to bone, slowly trapping victims in a second skeleton."In the film, they say the University of Penn was making strives into finding a cure, using the example at Mutter to help.
Brian Gallagher
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