Chicago - International Museum of Surgical Sciences

The International Museum of Surgical Sciences has one of the world's largest collections of material on the history of medicine and surgery, extending from the simple implements of primitive peoples to the most modern technical apparatus.
It is located in an historic status mansion on the city's north side. Some of the artifacts housed within the museum's four floors of exhibits include the knives or "tumis" used by Inca surgeons to perform brain surgery, a working iron lung and photos, tools, and texts used by Civil War doctors to amputate the mutilated limbs of more than 30,000 soldiers.

The Museum's collections and exhibits portray the mysteries and milestones that have shaped modern surgical science.

There is a library with several medical books from around the world, a gallery with rotating contemporary art exhibits and a medical "Hall of Immortals," with statues of luminaries in the field.