Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs showcases nearly 200 full-color images selected from the Mütter Museum's unparalleled archive of historical medical photography. The work of more than forty different photographers, some known, some unidentified, the photographs collected in this book span from the 1850s to the mid-1940s and artfully present situations both breathtaking and poignant. Far exceeding their fundamental documentary purpose, these pictures challenge our concepts of humanity, of beauty, of science and of art.