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  • Peru museum has diseases on the brain

    03/08/2006 2:13:33 PM PST · by martin_fierro · 1 replies · 128+ views
    AFP/Yahoo ^ | Wed Mar 8, 1:04 PM ET
    Peru museum has diseases on the brain Wed Mar 8, 1:04 PM ET LIMA (AFP) - Thousands of human brains float in jars of formaldehyde at a unique museum that gives visitors to Lima an up-close view of brain diseases, from trichinosis to stroke. More than 2,500 brains are on display in a modest museum in Lima sponsored by the National Institute of Neurological Sciences (INCN). Visitors can see brains of persons felled by AIDS, Alzheimers, clots, hemorrhages, heart attacks and a myriad of tumors. The museum is the proud owner of a brain that died of Creutzfeld-Jacob disease, the...