]]> ]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

]]> ]]> Medical Scale
Longitudinal Study of Child Health and Development (1930-1987)]]> Dissection Kit
History of Harvard Medical School]]> Harvard Medical School History
Parkman-Webster Murder]]> Jackson, J. B. S. Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum. Williams: Boston, 1870.]]> American Journal of the Medical Sciences. According to Bigelow, the head cast was on display adjacent to Gage's tamping iron in the Warren Anatomical Museum in July 1850. The cast was officially donated by Bigelow to the Museum in 1856.]]>
Later autopsy revealed that the internal jugular had been obliterated but the carotid artery had remained unharmed. Although unverified by the dissection, it was theorized that the arterial hemorrhage originated from the descending thyroid and sterno-mastoid branches of the external carotid. ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> 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 contains an interior metal tray and six sleeves for holding instruments. The kit contains a chain hook, a blow pipe, four dissecting/operating scalpels, medium dissection forceps, director and tongue tie, small blunted forceps and a chisel. Many of the instruments have ebony handles and the majority are labeled "charriere." Kit contains two types of thread and one needle. It closes on a metal clasp. Charriere label printed on interior.

]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> 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.]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> ]]> VASSEUR
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Many affluent American physicians would travel to Paris to receive elite medical training. The original purchaser of this artifact is unknown. ]]> Act Relative to the Promotion of Anatomical Science in Massachusetts, which permitted unclaimed remains to be utilized in medical education. This spine and rib preparation was prepared by Parkman Professor of Anatomy Thomas Dwight, from the remains of a twenty-one year old Caucasian male, who was mostly likely a dissection room subject at Harvard Medical School. Dwight donated this preparation to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1909.]]>
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Long bone[s]"]]> Act Relative to the Promotion of Anatomical Science in Massachusetts, which permitted unclaimed remains to be utilized in medical education. The left humerus originated from a body titled F-639, and the right originated from a body labeled M-641; both probably originally dissection room subjects. Associations between the subjects, and hence intent in juxtaposition beyond sex are unknown. The humeri from these distinct individuals were prepared and mounted beside another by Thomas Dwight, Jr. and donated to the Warren Anatomical Museum at some point between 1890 and 1910.]]> Act Relative to the Promotion of Anatomical Science in Massachusetts, which permitted unclaimed remains to be utilized in medical education. The hand, probably originating from a dissection subject at Harvard Medical School, was prepared for and donated to the Warren Anatomical Museum by Thomas Dwight in 1907.]]>