a crazy man. Sala Alessandrina The room is perpendicular to the sixtine rooms that are the main body of the hospital. It is called Ospedaletto (English: "Little hospital"), because it was used as a shelter for wounded soldiers. The room is 108 ft 7 in long, 35 ft 4 in wide and 35 ft 8 in high. It could house 64 beds. Presently it serves as a conference hall. The walls are decorated by 19 anatomical tables dating back to the beginning of the 19th century, created by Antonio Serantony and Paolo Mascagni and belonged to the surgeon Guglielmo Riva. The room also houses a plaster statue with pedestal portraying Aesculapius. Grand staircase It can be reached from the Sala Alessandrina. The monumental staircase gives access to the upper floor. On both sides are busts of famous physicians, among which Hippocrates and Giuseppe Maria Lancisi. On the right there is also an anatomical table with drainboard and grooves on its sides, on which the corpse of Goffredo Mameli was laid down; formerly it was housed in the death cell of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini. On the landing there is a wooden 17th-century chest, decorated with lion heads and used to store healing herbs; formerly it was housed in the spicery of the hospital. On both sides of the entrance door to the Sala Flajani there are medallions portraying Pope Pius VI and Francesco Saverio de Zelada together with plaques commemorating the founders of the museum and the first president of the Academy. Sala Flajani The room, the first one after climbing the grand staircase, houses the ancient funds of the museum. The visitor not accustomed to medicine meets a horrific sight made of pathological deformities. They actually are anatomical-pathological preparations, dating back to the end of the 17th century, and natal deformities both dry and in formol. These deformities show alterations of the skeleton and of the blood vessels due to no more existing diseases, such as syphilis, as well as skulls of foetuses and little skeletons, including some macrocephalouses and a bicephalous. A pink-wooden Empire-style shelf exhibits a collection of waxworks manufactured by Giovan Battista Manfredini under the supervision of the anatomist Carlo Mondini. In the centre of the room there is an aedicula, that once conserved an 18th-century quina bark grinder by Giovanni Battista Cipriani from Siena, and a scale model of the Corsia Sistina of the hospital.