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Plaster head cast of a man with significant head trauma. Cast is attached to plaster pedestal base and the entire work is painted white.

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A hollow plaster cast of a man's head and neck. Cast has section lines, possible phrenological, sculpted onto head. Mounted on base.

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Catalog entry: Ununited fracture about the middle of the humerus, several large, irregular masses of bone having been formed about the fractured extremities.

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Dr. Warren's written response to Charles Lowell's questions posed in the name of the Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes court case. Lowell sued his physicians over a dislocated hip bone, and Dr. Warren spoke on behalf of the defendents throughout the trial.

John Mason Warren's personal commentary on the post-mortem developments in the Charles Lowell case.

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Brass wedge spirometer on rectangular platform base. Spirometer attaches to base via metal pole. This spirometer was used by filling the rectangular basin with water and having the patient blow through the attached tube. The top piece moved up and…

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Crucible, purportedly taken from the laboratory of Dr. John W. Webster, North Grove Street, Boston, scene of the Parkman-Webster murder

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Laennec type cylindrical stethoscope is made of two parts fitted together. Third part, screw-on wooden tube is missing. The stethoscope is assembled with the chest plug protruding from the funnel shaped chest end of the stethoscope.

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A doctor sends the letter to Warren after reading his pamphlet on dislocations of the hip.

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This letter is sent after Lowell visited Dr. Nathan Smith to get a second opinion on his hip's diagnosis. In it, Lowell explains that Dr. Smith disagrees with Warren, and believes that the bone is not (and has never been) dislocated.

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A letter notifying Dr. Warren that Lowell wrote an article that appeared in the "American Traveller" that morning in which he used his name. He assures Warren that he did not intend to offend, and suggests that by bringing attention to him in the…

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The letter discusses methods employed in setting a hip dislocation as a result of the ongoing trial, Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes.

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The letter is sent as a result of an article that appeared in the "N.A Medicine and Surgery Journal".

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Dr. McDowell sends his compliments to Dr. Warren on his publication, "Letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker," regarding the Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes court case.

In this correspondence Dr. Hawkes is looking for support from Dr. Warren in the courtroom. Fundamentally, however, Dr. Warren disagrees with the way in which he decided to proceed with setting Lowell's dislocation.

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Dr. Mitchell sends this letter after having read Dr. Warren's "Letter to the Hon. Isaac Parker," complimenting his work and dedication to the Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes case.

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The letter suggests to Dr. Warren that he publish his work on the Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes case independently of Charles Lowell. Lowell wants to publish the Deposition, but uses the defendant's names freely, so Gray encourages him to go to the…

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The letter speaks of a drawing of the Os Innominatum that the author will send to Warren in order to illustrate his point in the trial of Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes.

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The letter contains a discussion of both Charles Lowell's hip diagnosis as well as the court case, Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes.

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Two short letters sent in order to organize and prepare Warren's writing for publishing.

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Model of human placenta designed in the style of Elizabeth Hay by Harvard Student Eric Horn. Used as instruction in HMS embryology coursework. Painted blue, green, light red, red, and purple to highlight various parts of placenta. Amniotic ectoderm…

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Wooden handled brass "airmeter" (anemometer). Airmeter is in metal case around fan section. Airmeter has open metal circle affixed to wooden handle. Metal circle has two diameter-long metal poles with small metal and paper fan (four pieces) inside.…

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Two piece glass ether inhaler. The body has a narrow globe with two external valves, one for atmospheric air and one for mouthpiece. Mouth piece is glass with a shaped iron fitting that sets into globe.

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The articulated skeleton of an adult eagle mounted onto a base.

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Dried and injected anatomical preparation mounted onto black wooden base. Coated with unknown preservative.

Back of wooden base has red diagram showing origin and distribution of intercostal arteries.

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Articulated skeleton of a snapping turtle mounted on black painted wooden base

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Microscope slide of the muscle sarcolemma of a frog, stained and mounted by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tissue is magnified four times.

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Teaching model of human embryo designed and used by Elizabeth Hay. Three separate and interactive pieces. Hard plastic shell painted red inside and blue outside with blue pom poms attached to exterior and small red polystyrene block on inner right…

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Pencil drawing of a boy's head, face, and upper torso in two views. The left hand drawing depicts the subject facing forward and the right hand drawing profiles the face on the tumor side. Drawings are side by side on ivory paper. "O. W. del. /…

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Four photographs taken of Lowell's hip bone from different angles, so it is possible to see the calcification of bone, in addition to the formation of a new socket below the acetabulum.

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Unpainted plaster model of human embryo. Part of a set of teaching models.

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Unpainted plaster model of human embryo head. Model sectioned at mid-body to expose tail interior. Plaster set on wire mesh. Part of a set of teaching models.

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Unpainted plaster model of human embryo head. Model sectioned at mid-body to expose tail interior. Plaster set on wire mesh. Part of a set of teaching models.

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Unpainted plaster model of human embryo head. Model sectioned at mouth aperture. Plaster set on wire mesh. Part of a set of teaching models.

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Unpainted plaster model of human embryo head. Plaster set on wire mesh. Part of a set of teaching models.

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Inscription: "6691" written on the shaft in red; "6691" etched on the underside of the base.

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Case history:From an unidentified soldier whose arm was shattered by gunshot in mid-April 1862. Immediately after the injury fragments were removed from the arm, the ends of the fractured bone were sawed off, and fit together. After six months…

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Post-mortem set of fifteen instruments.

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Another student piece illustrates the various techniques and compounds which could be used for filling teeth. There are twenty-nine dental preparations in a glass dome on a wooden base. The teeth are mounted on two gold arches.

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Twenty-nine dental preparations in glass dome on wooden base. Teeth mounted on two gold arches.

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A set of questions intended for Charles Lowell to answer regarding the case Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes, in which he sued his physicians over a dislocated hip bone.

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A handwritten list of questions written by Charles Lowell to be answered by Dr. John Collins Warren, Dr. James Mann, Dr. William Spooner, Dr. David Townsend, and Dr. Thomas Welsh for the sake of the case known as Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes. Lowell…

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A classroom demonstration brass monocular microscope with mirror and oil lamp, used by Oliver Wendell Holmes. It is mounted onto a wooden base with a heavy wooden handle.

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This scapula was found or removed from an unidentified soldier injured on a Virginia battlefield in 1863.
Inscription: "984 12-3 Civil War Gettysburg" written on the underside of the base in pencil; Hand written label "984. Gun Shot Fracture."…

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Microscope slide of a cross section of a human incisor

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The subject was a German machinist, age thirty-seven. Born in 1815. The patient believed the hand was an advantage at playing the piano. He died of chronic diarrhea at Massachusetts General Hospital in March 1852. The limb was removed and…

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Prepared human skull on an adult man with sectioned skull top and disarticulated mandible. Skull has healed fracture line through left orbit ending in large opening with partially healed skull flap.

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Catalog entry: A cranium, showing a ball lodged in the frontal bone, just above the right orbit and towards the median line, and which had been in that situation for about twenty-five years. The patient, aged forty-five, was sail-maker on board the…

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Microscope slide of the small intestine of a lizard. Small intestine composed of a thick section of tissue encased in clear resin. Tissue image is magnified four times.

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Colored wax model of chick embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of chick at eighth stage, three days. Part of twenty-three piece model series created by Adolf Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
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