Healthy left and right hand bones of a 46-year-old man

Healthy left and right hand bones of a 46-year-old man

Osteological Preparations

Thomas Dwight, Jr. Collection

Hands

Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911

human remains

Bones of left and right hands. Articulated with wire and mounted to wooden base painted blue.

Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911

1908

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Warren Anatomical Museum (09392A.043)

Warren Anatomical Museum Manuscript Catalogue 9300-9799, Warren Anatomical Museum Records, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass, Box 13, Volume 17

Warren Anatomical Museum specimen card (small), Warren Anatomical Museum Records, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass

image

osteological preparation, human

physical object

WAM 09392A.043

These remains were most likely acquired after the passage of the 1898 Act Relative to the Promotion of Anatomical Science in Massachusetts, which permitted unclaimed remains to be utilized in medical education. The remains of a 46-year-old man, who was most likely a dissection room subject at Harvard Medical School, were prepared, mounted, and donated by Parkman Professor of Anatomy Thomas Dwight in 1908.