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Vial of sheep lung surfactant ("Surfactant TA")
Vials of Surfactant TA (Tokyo Akita), a modified sheep lung surfactant, brought back from Tetsuro Fujiwara's lab at Akita University School of Medicine, Japan, by Mary Ellen Avery. Building off of Avery's 1959 discovery that the cause of Respiratory…
Engraving of Charles Lowell's hip bone
An engraving depicting the mounted hip bone which appears in John Mason Warren's "Surgical Observations with Cases and Operations" to illustrate his discussion of the Lowell case.
Crystalline Proteolipid B
This Pyrex test tube contains crystalline proteolipid B that HMS Professor of Biological Chemistry Emeritus Marjorie Berman Lees (1923- ) isolated from brain white matter on July 12, 1949, early in her groundbreaking research with Dr. Jordi Folch-Pi…
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…
Fractured humerus with healed amputation
Case history: From an active, and powerful man who served as an artillerist in the American Civil War. In 1864, his hand was severely injured by the premature discharge of a cannon. It was amputated at the wrist joint. Subsequently, the forearm was…
Receipt for Spurzheim's cranium from the Boston Phrenological Society
In 1850, after some years of dormancy, the Boston Phrenological Society's collection of casts and skulls was sold to Dr. John Collins Warren and later added to the specimens of the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard Medical School. This is Dr.…
R & J Beck classroom demonstration microscope
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.
Stella musculosa nuchae
Border lines of knowledge, in some provinces of medical science is a published and somewhat expanded version of Holmes’ introductory lecture to the students at Harvard Medical School at the opening of term on November 6, 1861. Although he refers to…
Mounted preparation showing first intercostal arteries
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.
Back of wooden base has red diagram showing origin and distribution of intercostal arteries.
Preparation of Dental Fillings
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.
Dissected Superior and Inferior Maxillary Bones
This specimen of dissection shows arrested development of the permanent teeth.
The specimen is of dissected superior and inferior maxillary nones showing arrested development of permanent tooth germs, natural absorption of roots of temporary…
Diminutive Supernumerary
This supernumary tooth was removed from the jaw of an 11 year old boy; the rest of his teeth were very large.
Cannon Moulages
In 1943, Dr. Cannon joined the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He served in the plastic surgery unit at the Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania, as assistant chief and then chief. This unit performed over 15,000 operations without…
John Warren to Secretary of War William Eustis regarding an opening at the Boston Marine Hospital
Two page letter from John Warren to Secretary of War William Eustis regarding an opening at the Navy's Boston Marine Hospital. Warren remarks that he hopes that the new appointee would employ favorable teaching conditions for the faculty and students…
Celluloid shirt collar
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…
Cohn centrifuge bowls
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…
Elizabeth D. Hay Embryological models
During her tenure as an HMS professor and researcher, Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927-2007) achieved many notable
Bone box with appendicular bones.
B-133 is inscribed in red ink on the box and a black label on the front reads:
"Homo.
Teenage [18]
Epiph not
fused
Long bone[s]"
"Homo.
Teenage [18]
Epiph not
fused
Long bone[s]"
Fetal Skeleton Separated and Mounted
This blue box contains the separated and mounted skeleton of a fetus enclosed behind glass. The manufacturer label is inscribed:
VASSEUR
NATURALISTE, PREPARATEUR
d'Osteologie
?
Rue de la Sorbonne No.18
PARIS
VASSEUR
NATURALISTE, PREPARATEUR
d'Osteologie
?
Rue de la Sorbonne No.18
PARIS
Teaching watercolor of skin disorder on the back of the neck, and of a star-shaped open wound
Possibly from a local Boston patient
Teaching watercolor comparing the break of a human humerus at the sixth week of recovery to three broken dog tibias on the tenth and eighteenth days of recovery
After Edward Stanley's Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, plates 23 and 24
Teaching watercolor of four views of a badly healed fracture of the femur
Possibly of a local Boston patient
Teaching watercolor of the reparation of fractures, resulting in both united and ununited fractures
After Edward Stanley's Illustrations of the effects of disease and injury of the bones, plate 23
Teaching watercolor of a radius and tibia after fracture, and of a fracture of the cranium with a portion of the bone removed by a trephine
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints, plate 32
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the clavicle
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 1
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the acromion process of the scapula
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 3
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the neck of the scapula
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 4
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the coracoid process of the scapula
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 2
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the neck of the humerus immediately below the tubercles and above the insertions of the pectoralis major, latissimus dorsi, and teres major muscles
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 5
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the humerus immediately above the condyles
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 8
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the shaft of the humerus
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 6
Teaching watercolor showing dislocations and a fracture at the elbow
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 440 and 463
Teaching watercolor of elbow dislocations
After Jean Cruveilhier's Anatomie pathologique du corps humain, vol. 1, liv. 9, pl. 4
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the coronoid process of the ulna and of a fracture of the olecranon process of the ulna
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 9
Teaching watercolor of fractures at the neck and at the center of the radius
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 10
Teaching watercolor of fractures of the radius and ulna
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 11
Teaching watercolor of fractures in the radius and ulna near the wrist and fractures of the fingers
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 12
Teaching watercolor showing two views of the crural arch on the left side, one with bones and ligaments only, and the other with the addition of muscles, nerves, and vessels
After Thomas George Morton's The surgical anatomy of the principal regions of the human body, The Groin, pages 85 and 87
Teaching watercolor of healthy and injured femurs
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints, plates 12 and 13
Teaching watercolor of damaged femurs
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 139, 146, 148, 134, 147, and 150
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the great trochanter of the femur
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 13
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the femur between the shaft and the head near the hip
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 14
Teaching watercolor of three badly healed injuries to the femur
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints, plate 14
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the femur immediately above the condyles
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 17
Teaching watercolor of two ununited fractures of the femur
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 129 and 173
Teaching watercolor of a fracture of the femur below the trochanter minor
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 15
Teaching watercolor of fractures of the patella
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities, plate 18
Teaching watercolor of fractures in the tibia and fibula
After George W. Hind's Fractures of the bones of the extremities plate 19
Teaching watercolor of osteonecrosis and shattered bone which caused amputation of the limb
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 304 and 307
Teaching watercolor of a forward dislocation of the ankle and of the anatomy of the jaw
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842) pgs. 341 and 257
Teaching watercolor of the dislocation of the ulna at the elbow
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), page 450
Teaching watercolor of a dislocation of the scapular extremity of the clavicle and a partial dislocation of the shoulder
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 357 and 406
Teaching watercolor of a dislocation of the sternal end of the clavicle and a dislocation of the humerus at the shoulder
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), page 351, and Fractures of the bones of the extremities by the same author, plate 29
Teaching watercolor of shoulder dislocation
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints, plates 21 and 22
Teaching watercolor of woman with a dislocated shoulder
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), page 364
Teaching watercolor of the dislocation of the radius
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 452 and 459
Teaching watercolor of the dislocation of the elbow and wrist
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pg. 459 and 484
Teaching watercolor showing a damaged pelvis and femur
After Astley Cooper
Teaching watercolor of damage to the femur and pelvis caused by a dislocated femur
After Astley Cooper's A treatise on dislocations and fractures of the joints (A New Edition, Much Enlarged, 1842), pages 86 and 87