International Museum of Surgical Science

"The exhibits here deal with various aspects of Eastern and Western medicine. The museum itself is housed in a 1917 mansion designed as a Chicago-style interpretation of the Petit Trianon of Versailles. Founded by Dr. Max Thorek in 1954, exhibits cover bloodletting, bone repair, and prostate reduction, ailments once difficult to manage but easily treated today. Other items of note on display include an ancient Roman-era enema syringe, an intact iron lung, an 18th-century self-propelled wheelchair, a Civil War-era bone saw, a turn-of-the-century hemorrhoid removal kit, kidney stones found in Egyptian mummies from the 28th Dynasty and ancient Egyptian tablets depicting circumcision."