After Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert's Description des maladies de la peau, v.2, plate between pages 45 and 46, and after Carl Thiersch's Der Epithelialkrebs namentlich der Haut atlas, table VI
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…
Colored drawing of femur with pronounced disease on ivory colored paper. Drawing depicts growth within fracture. "9865. / (19-5)" and "WM. J. KAULA / NOV. 21, 1900" is handwritten in ink on the drawing recto.
Anatomists throughout history have worked to discover new angles of approach to the human body in order to reach the fullest understanding of its complexities. In this symposium, our four speakers endeavor to do the same, coming from different…