View the online catalog record.

View the complete work online at the Internet Archive.

]]>
View the online catalog record.

View the complete work online at the Internet Archive.

]]>
]]> ]]> ]]> Elizabeth D. Hay papers

]]>
Accessing collections in the Warren Anatomical Museum and the Warren Anatomical Museum archive requires advanced notice. Please submit a request to Public Services to access the displayed item.

]]>
]]> ]]> ]]>
catalog record.

View the complete work online in Google Books.

]]>
View the online catalog record.

View the complete work online at the Internet Archive.

]]>
View the online catalog record.

View the complete work online at the Internet Archive.

]]>
]]> View the online catalog record.

View the complete work online at the Internet Archive.

]]>
]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> View the online catalog record.

]]>
An online guide to the collection is available.

]]>
]]>
Many affluent American physicians would travel to Paris to receive elite medical training. The original purchaser of this Beauchene skull is unknown, but it was a popular contemporary educational model. ]]>

"Homo.
Teenage [18]
Epiph not
fused
Long bone[s]"]]>
Lynne M. Reid papers

]]>
Act Relative to the Promotion of Anatomical Science in Massachusetts, which permitted unclaimed remains to be utilized in medical education. The hand, probably originating from a dissection subject at Harvard Medical School, was prepared for and donated to the Warren Anatomical Museum by Thomas Dwight in 1907.]]> View the online catalog record.

]]>
This collar was worn by a Boston streetcar motorman who was subject to attacks of dizziness and loss of consciousness on the job. Upon examination at Massachusetts General Hospital, it was determined that when the motorman turned his head, his stiff shirt collar pressed against the right carotid sinus, triggering a fainting attack. "Pulse and blood pressure measurements were made with the patient turning his head from side to side while wearing one of his celluloid collars. These movements caused pressure on the carotid sinuses, and resulted in slight slowing of the heart rate, fall in blood pressure as much as 40mm. Hg systolic, sometimes dizziness, but not fainting. The patient was advised to wear a soft collar, which he has done for the past month. In that time has had no more attacks of dizziness or fainting."

Dr. Soma Weiss (1899-1942) described this case in his article, "Carotid sinus reflex in health and disease," published in Medicine, v. 12 (1933).

]]>
This pocket case of dissection instruments belonged to George Thomas Perkins (1838-1880), who attended Harvard Medical School from 1855 to 1857. Perkins served as a surgeon during the Civil War and later practiced in Newton Lower Falls.

Leather case contains an interior metal tray and six sleeves for holding instruments. The kit contains a chain hook, a blow pipe, four dissecting/operating scalpels, medium dissection forceps, director and tongue tie, small blunted forceps and a chisel. Many of the instruments have ebony handles and the majority are labeled "charriere." Kit contains two types of thread and one needle. It closes on a metal clasp. Charriere label printed on interior.

]]>
After World War II, Harvard researcher Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953) devised a small centrifuge in which a donor's blood could be quickly separated into its components and stored more efficiently. The centrifugal force employed divides the heavier red blood cells from the lighter plasma.

Beginning in October 1948, weekly meetings of the Formed Elements Group of Cohn's laboratory staff and associates were held to discuss research and developments in plasma fractionation and blood preservation and storage. These meetings resulted in the establishment of the Blood Characterization and Preservation Laboratory in January, 1951.

While the first bowls for the Cohn centrifuge were made of glass, the examples here show later refinements, the one made of stainless steel, the other a single use, disposable bowl, developed by Allen D. Latham, Jr.

]]>
Latham Bowl, Plastic, Single-Use, 1972-2007. Two clear and white plastic components. The largest is a bulbous plastic bell-shaped body. The body appears to have two main pieces: an exterior clear plastic shell and a white plastic interior bulb. The second piece of the unit is a clear plastic drum with a long metal cylinder threaded through its center.

Cohn Centrifuge, stainless steel, 1952-1972. Two metal components. The majority of the piece is composed of a bulbous metal body that tampers to a circular flat end. The widest point of the body has a thick metal band around its diameter. The body's hallow interior has several distinct chambers. The second piece of the cell separator inserts into the larger body. It is composed of a circular metal drum from which extends a thin cylinder with a plastic tip. When inserted into the body only the base of the drum is visible.

]]>
Jackson, J. B. S. A A Descriptive Catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1847, 17.

]]>
Inscription: in pencil on bottom of base: "Civil War / 4973 /12-3."]]> ]]>
Folch-Pi and Lees describe the cumbersome process in a 1951 article in the Journal of biological chemistry, “To a filtrate from proteolipide A was added an equal volume of acetone, and, after mixing, the solution was allowed to stand at 4° overnight. A precipitate that had formed was collected by centrifugation and dried in a vacuum desiccator at room temperature to constant weight. 0.6 gm. of a white powder was obtained (proteolipide B).”
]]>
]]> Marjorie Berman Lees papers

]]>
]]> ]]> ]]>
Medical Scale
Longitudinal Study of Child Health and Development (1930-1987)]]>

These were originally in the Harvard Dental Museum. The Harvard Dental Museum was part of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1868 to 1940. Components of the Harvard Dental Museum, including these teeth, presumably came to the Countway Library with the Dental School's library collection in 1965.]]>

The specimen is of dissected superior and inferior maxillary nones showing arrested development of permanent tooth germs, natural absorption of roots of temporary centrals. Also a few examples of extracted permanent teeth with arrested development-(showing 6 teeth). These specimens are mounted in glass globe.

]]>

The Harvard Dental Museum was part of the Harvard School of Dental Medicine from 1868 to 1940. Components of the Harvard Dental Museum, including these remains, presumably came to the Countway Library with the Dental School's library collection in 1965.]]>
Dissection Kit
History of Harvard Medical School]]>
]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> Janet W. McArthur papers

]]>
]]> Accessing collections in the Warren Anatomical Museum and the Warren Anatomical Museum archive requires advanced notice. Please submit a request to Public Services to access the displayed item.

]]>
]]> ]]> ]]>
View the online catalog record.

]]>
View the online catalog record.

]]>
View the online catalog record.

]]>
View the online catalog record.

]]>
During her tenure as an HMS professor and researcher, Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927-2007) achieved many notable

]]>
Plaster model of embryo aged 6-7 weeks, Carnegie Stage 17. Unpainted plaster model of embryo head, sectioned at mid-body to expose tail interior.

Plaster model of embryo aged 7-8 weeks, Carnegie Stage 20. Unpainted plaster model of embryo head, sectioned at mouth aperture.

Both models are plaster set on wire mesh, and are part of a set of teaching models.

]]>
View the online catalog record.

]]>
Lynne M. Reid papers

]]>
Inscription: in pencil on bottom of base: "6536 / 14-1"; in red paint on base: "6536 / 14-1."]]> VASSEUR
NATURALISTE, PREPARATEUR
d'Osteologie
?
Rue de la Sorbonne No.18
PARIS]]>

Many affluent American physicians would travel to Paris to receive elite medical training. The original purchaser of this artifact is unknown. ]]>
Inscription: "1027 / 12-3 Civil War / Gettysburg" handwritten in pencil under base; "1027. From Gettysburg. Soft parts / extensively lacerated. Wound - / ed July 3rd. Iron removed on 13th / extensive suppuration am- / putated Sept. 12th. Did well / till Oct. 4th then..."
]]>
A Descriptive Catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement. Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1847, 18.]]>