In the fall of 1925, two medical students in Kirksville, Missouri, received a cadaver and a challenge. Their assignment: to dissect the body’s nervous system, beginning at the base of the brain and working downward, leaving the system in one continuous piece. Over the following year, the students — M.A. Schalck and L.P. Ramsdell — spent 1,500 hours of their lives completing the painstaking dissection. A viral photo posted on Reddit on Jan. 30 shows the extraordinary fruits of their labor, which remain on permanent display at the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine at A.T. Still University (ATSU) in Kirksville. “Medical students come into the museum and stare at it in amazement,” Jason Haxton, director of the museum, told Live Science. “Sometimes, they’ll run in after a test to check their work. People familiar with dissection say this is truly a miracle piece.” [Image Gallery: The Oddities of Human Anatomy] According to Haxton, every student in Schalck and Ramsdell’s classat the Kirksville College of Osteopathy & Surgery (an institution founded by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still in 1892, now part of ATSU) wasrequired to dissect a human arm. “These two students’ dissections were so detailed, and so much better than any other… Read full this story

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