How were infant remains in medical museums acquired?

Medical museums sometimes have tiny skeletons or baby bones on display, these are infant remains, and they help people learn about how babies grow up and what happens when they get sick or pass away.

Sometimes, doctors would collect baby bones from hospitals. This was like when you bring your old toys to a friend’s house, except instead of toys, it was little bones from babies who had passed away.

These doctors would keep the bones in special boxes or even put them into jars filled with alcohol, kind of like how some people store candies for later.

Doctors wanted to learn more about how babies grow and what makes them sick. It was like a big science project, except instead of using crayons, they used tiny bones and sometimes even used special tools to look at the bones really closely.

So, just like you might keep your favorite toy under your bed, doctors kept baby bones in their museums so other people could learn from them too!