European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 10, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Museum preserves medical by Ted Anthony the associated presso n a quiet Philadelphia Side Street hundreds of people barely remembered for How they lived Are memorialized forever for How they died. Gigantic tutors. Syphilitic skulls. Brittle Bones. Tubercular torsos. Infected eyes. All Are preserved in the mutter museum a place that brings medical students and curiosity seekers together to see the unlikely and the unorthodox. This museum of the medical macabre Gross Anatomy at its grossest is governed by one philosophy let it be preserved. This stuff is not spooky. It s you you re looking at yourself says Cretchen Worden who As curator for the last 19 years combines restful levity with a dignified scientific Demeanour. Nothing that is human is foreign she says. On the other hand everything that is human can frighten. It s a bit of there but for the Grace of cod go i coupled with some thank cod for modern medical science " under Worden s Purview Are More than 2,000 medical instruments and specimens from a 7-foot-6-Inch Skeleton to a basketball sized ovarian cyst Here is president Crover Cleveland s jaw tumor Complete with the retractor that helped remove it. Nearby sits a plaster cast of the original siamese twins Chang and eng Bunker taken after they died Complete with armpit hairs in the casting. Here too Are rows of malformed infants preserved in chemicals a doctor s collection of 139 skulls a baby born with no cranium sliced Cross sections of a Man s face and a Colon that grew to five times its Normal size. Another display centers on a Man who died when the tissue connecting his Muscles turned agonizingly into Bone. One of the most popular exhibits is the soap lady a body buried in soil with properties that turned it into adipose re a substance with soap like qualities. The body arrived in 1874, and no one knows who she was. It adds up to a jarring reminder of mortality proof that a human body is sometimes truly no More than the sum of its parts. It s from the study of the abnormal that we Leam about the Normal Worden said. It tips us  Cretchen Warden curator of Philadelphia s mutter museum stands next to the Skeleton of a 7-foot6 giant and a 3foot6 Dwarf. The museum was founded in 1849 by the Philadelphia College of physicians which still operates it it remained Small until 1858, when Philadelphia physician Thomas Dent mutter donated his extensive collection if people Are going Tobe interested in this sort of thing give the the truth not the tabloids Gretchen Worden museum curator of pathological specimens and $30,000 to maintain it. It grew from there amassing collections As its reputation spread. Today it is one of the few 19th-Century medical museums still operating. Do not use the word bizarre " Worden said. We Are not bizarre. Something in a sideshow would be bizarre. We re mainstream part of the medical education scene. A two headed baby would be a bicep halic fetus Here. It just depends on the Way you look at  Worden was a physical anthropology student when an acquaintance brought her to the museum in 1974. She was entranced immediately applied for the Job and got it. She works out of a crowded office where scientific books Are propped up by a rubber Skull wearing a Beanie. On the Wall a sign warns that catatonia is an oppressed  nearby a gallery of two headed toys is on display guarded by a two headed Gingerbread Man someone once baked for her. You be got to have humor in Medicine she said. Worden refuses to use curiosity As a marketing tool yet she welcomes it As a research tool. She keeps a stack of supermarket tabloids on hand to gauge the level of Public interest in the Peculiar. If people Are going to be interested in this sort of thing give them the truth not the tabloids she said. What i love about this place is that everybody comes to it and sees it on their own terms. It is Art in the sense that it s done with great Talent and artistry. There s just so much to  to your health smokeless tobacco teens and protein q by Modena Wilson and Alain Joff Ethe Baltimore Sun my Boyfriend has started using chewing tobacco. Me argues that it s safer than cigarettes. How Safe is it your Boyfriend is not unlike Many adolescents and adults who View smokeless tobacco use As the lesser of two  but users of smokeless tobacco Are trading one kind of cancer risk for another. An f estimated 30,000 new cancers of the Mouth will be detected this year most of them due to either smoking or smokeless tobacco use. Spit tobacco moist tobacco and or snuff which is not sniffed but placed in the Mouth contain nicotine and absorption through the Mouth will Lead to addiction As will cigarette smoking. Some users keep a wad in the Mouth for 30 minutes and Chew up to six wads per Day. So while they May spare their lungs exposure to cigarette smoke their Gums and the lining of their Mouths Are bathed in High Levels of nicotine equal to two packs of cigarette Sas Well As nitrosamine and other cancer causing agents. Since some youngsters Start to use tobacco As Early As age 11, these cancer causing agents have a Long time to exert their effect. Smokeless tobacco users also develop gum disease which can Lead to gum recession and exposure of the Root surface of the tooth. I m concerned that my 12-year-old is not getting enough protein. She eats fruits vegetables Chicken and some fish but hardly any red meat won t a Lack of protein interfere with her growth you re right to want to assure a healthy diet for your daughter since at age 12 she is most Likely in a period of rapid growth. And in order for her to grow property she will need adequate amounts of protein. However the average american teen Ager probably consumes More protein than she really needs. The excess beyond that required for growth is converted to fat it does t stimulate growth. Protein should Supply about 12 percent to 14 percent of an adolescent s total daily Energy intake. The recommended daily allowance for the average 12-year-old is 1 Gram per kilogram 2.2 pounds of body weight which usually Means about 46 Grams. For comparison purposes 4 ounces of Chicken contains 25-28 Grams of protein As does a 4-ounce hamburger a 6-Inch wedge of pizza contain 7 Grams. 8 ounces of Yogurt contains 12 Grams. The Quality of protein from each of these sources is equally capable of supporting growth. As Long As your daughter eats three Well balanced meals per Day Shell get All the nutrients she needs. Or. Woden Wilson and or. Ruin of a Worth Johns Hopkins children s cents in Tammora. Red meat not Only protein source. Wednesday november 10, 1993 the stars and stripes 17