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Our Strange States serial will take you on a virtual tour of America to expose the unusual multitude , spot , thing , and effect that make this country such a unique position to call home .
This time we ’ll take a feel at The Nutmeg State : Connecticut — place of birth of George W. Bush , as well as the Blue Backed Speller , later known as Webster ’s Dictionary .
The Cushing Center
In the cellar of the aesculapian program library at Yale University is a hungry zombie ’s dream — The Cushing Center , also bang as the psyche museum . Named after Yale ’s own Harvey Williams Cushing , often called the Father of Modern Neurosurgery , the Center is place to the Brain Tumor Registry , a appeal of over 400 grizzly matter specimens from patients that Cushing operated on since 1902 . He was inspired to wield a personal archive after a tissue paper sample he ’d read during operating theater at Johns Hopkins was misplace .
For much of the collection ’s life , it reside in Cushing ’s berth , only to subsequently be stored in an fresh hero - basement of a hall on Yale ’s campus . However , it was rediscover in the 1990s by scholarly person who pilfer through the hall ’s crawlspace to get to “ the brain elbow room , ” where they signalize a white card exclaim themselves part of the Brain Society . When a student bespeak license to write his thesis on Cushing ’s archives , the school day get hold of a regenerate interestingness in the collection and decided to make it available to the populace . After a $ 1.5 million renovation and restoration project , the Cushing Center opened in June 2010 .
The specimens , still put up in their original leaded glass jars , line the wall of the museum , creating a macabre , yet beautiful show . Aside from Cushing ’s brain and neoplasm sample , the Center also contains hundreds of pathology microscope slip , and drawer full of human bones in various stages of development that are on loan from the Kier - Conlogue Anatomic Collection . On a slightly less stinky note , you ’ll also discover Cushing ’s aesculapian textbooks , operating theater tool , personal belongings , and pages from his elaborate case journals , including medical drawing and over 15,000 photo and negative , a aesculapian archive proficiency that Cushing helped pioneer .
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