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Eagle skeleton [WAM 00161] prepared by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Photograph of eagle skeleton [WAM 00151] prepared by and donated by Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1851. Eagle skeleton is being photographed on the Harvard Medical School quad by artists from the Art Institute of Boston in…
Post-mortem set in wooden case, 1860 - 1880 [WAM 20441]
Post-mortem set of fifteen instruments.
Mounted snapping turtle skeleton, 1855 [WAM 00179]
Articulated skeleton of a snapping turtle mounted on black painted wooden base
Seven-fingered hand cast "mirror hand," 1853 [WAM 00917]
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…
Preparation showing various types of tooth fillings and upper denture,1887, [WAM TEMP00493]
Twenty-nine dental preparations in glass dome on wooden base. Teeth mounted on two gold arches.
Cast of child with tumor, 1876 [WAM 04635]
Hollow plaster case of head, neck, and upper portion of thorax of 10 year old boy with tumor on left side, painted white
Head Cast of William Burke, 1829 [WAM 03386.002]
A hollow plaster cast of a man's head and neck. Cast has section lines, possible phrenological, sculpted onto head. Mounted on base.
Mounted eagle skeleton, 1851 [WAM 00161]
The articulated skeleton of an adult eagle mounted onto a base.