Healthy right and left foot bones of an adult, mounted to illustrate the sesamoids

Healthy right and left foot bones of an adult, mounted to illustrate the sesamoids

Osteological Preparations

Foot Bones

Sesamoid Bones

Thomas Dwight, Jr. Collection

Hands

Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911

human remains

Bones of right and left feet with sesamoid bones. Articulated with wire and mounted to wooden base painted blue.

Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911

1910

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Warren Anatomical Museum (TEMP00935)

image

osteological preparation, human

physical object

WAM TEMP00935

These remains were likely acquired after passage of the 1898 Act Relative to the Promotion of Anatomical Science in Massachusetts, which permitted unclaimed remains to be utilized in medical education. Probably originating from an unkown body originally a dissection room subject, this foot mount was prepared by Parkman Professor of Anatomy Thomas Dwight. Dwight later donated a large collection of osteological preparations, including this one, to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1910.

22.85 W x 28 D x 10.15 H cm