The skin is made of cellon, a glassy material through which folks at the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair could ogle every vein, organ, and bone of the “Transparent Man.” The Mayo Clinic paid $10,000 (over $200,000 today) to build this life-size model. Now on the Rochester campus, it is a kind of patron saint of medical education.
Snapshot: Mayo Clinic’s “Transparent Man”
On the Rochester campus, an eerie figure stands for medical education