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Metal part with one shaped end and one cylindrical end

Metal semi-rectangular part with a cylindrical end

Small instrument with two round plugs on the spatula and convex edges. Instrument has a curved handle.

Chrome steel tool with a thick ridged handle, a cylindrical middle segment, and a pointed tip

Three broken pieces of a semi-spherical glass mold used for hip arthroplasty

Large metal nail with a spherical tip. The Smith-Petersen nail was devised to bring about absolute fixation in all directions and displace a minimum amount of bone.

Metal tool with a handle in the middle with one curved end and one straight end

Cylindrical metal tool with a circular piece and thin pointed tip at one end and a thick band at the other. Probably used for measuring.

Metal measuring device with an adjustable screw at the top and in the middle. Maximum opening of 6.5 cm.

Metal scissor type instrument

Metal instrument with a hook type end and a small hole in the tip

Surgical bur with round ridged end and an adjustable screw in the middle

Metal surgical hand crank drill

Stainless steel drill handle with a patterned side embossed with "GAYD"

Large metal hip gouge with a convex rectangular tip

Large metal cutter with one curved and one straight handle. The handles have grooves.

Metal trocar instrument with a removable base that can be switched out with 4 tips of varying sizes (6.0 mm, 4.5 mm, 3.3 mm, and 1.9 mm)

Metal instrument with bell-shaped end and grooves inside. There is a stem with a small narrow end on one side of the instrument.

T- shaped glass tube with base for standing

T- shaped vitallium tube with a base for standing

Small metal bell-shaped reamer with ridges and an adjustable handle

Large metal bell-shaped reamer with a ridged middle. Used for initial shaping of the femoral head and acetabulum.

Two curved metal gouges with thick handles

Metal instrument with hexagonal handle and a sharp convex rectangular tip. The large gouge was first used in 1944 and has the same curves as the smaller hip gouges. It was particularly useful in excising the posterior margin of the acetabulum.

Metal swan neck curved gouge with an octagonal handle and a sharp convex spatula shape tip. The large gouge was first used in 1944.

Metal instrument with a skinny pointed tip attached to a ridged base

Reddish-brown semi-spherical viscaloid mould used for hip arthroplasty

Off-white semi-spherical bakelite mold used for hip arthroplasty

Two semi-spherical vitallium molds used for hip arthroplasty

Semi-spherical vitallium mold used for hip arthroplasty

Metal tool with a flat horizontal tip and a handle

Metal instrument with a spoon type end and six-angled handle. It has the stamped inscription "SP" on it. The spoon is sharp and was used for carving and blunt dissection.

Metal gouge that is curved in three sides at one of the ends and has a handle on the other end. Bone chisels are used for carving small pieces out of the bones to reach the inner soft part. They are also used to score, cut, scrape, clean and sculpt…

Small flanged stainless steel nail used in orthopedic operations. The flanged nail was devised to bring about absolute fixation in all directions and displace a minimum amount of bone.

Small flanged nail used in orthopedic operations. The flanged nail was devised to bring about absolute fixation in all directions and displace a minimum amount of bone.

Metal instrument with bell-shaped end and grooves inside. There is a stem with a small narrow end on one side of the instrument.

Small flanged nail used in orthopedic operations. The flanged nail was devised to bring about absolute fixation in all directions and displace a minimum amount of bone

The finding aid for the Jeffries Wyman underwent a significant revision in 2021 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the now-deprecated original…

Oral history interview of Dr. Catherine DeAngelis, conducted by Tacey A. Rosolowski conducted in five sessions between 22 December 2020 and 04 February 2021 (total running time 4h47m49s). Dr. DeAngelis describes her family life, experiences in…

The finding aid for the Abraham Myerson papers and family research records underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is…

The finding aid for the Maxwell Finland papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Alexander Forbes papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Carl Waldemar Walter papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Hyman Morrison papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the now-deprecated…

The finding aid for the Richard John Kitz papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Christiana Morgan papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Loretta McLaughlin research and publication records underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This…

The finding aid for the Louis T. Wright papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Varaztad Hovhannes Kazanjianpapers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Fanny Bowditch Katz papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Walter Bradford Cannon papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Ernest Amory Codman papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Norman E. Himes papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Clemens E. Benda papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Clemens E. Benda papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Jacob L. Moreno papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Clarence James Gamble papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

The finding aid for the Stanley Cobb papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the now-deprecated…

The finding aid for the Louis T. Wright papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

Graham Holt (Director of the Office of Creative Solutions, Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Boston Children's Hospital) developed the initial Phineas Gage 3D print from CT scans taken by Peter Raitu and Ian Talos (Surgical Planning Laboratory,…

These are images taken of the plaster cast of an Ancient Egyptian skull that belonged to Samuel G. Morton's crania collection. This is one of twelve skulls that Morton considered to be "typical skulls." It was used to decipher a standardized…

These are images of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim's skull. This human specimen is one of the artifacts held in the Warren Anatomical Museum. Spurzheim's skull had originally belonged to the Boston Phrenological Society (BPS) collection, an organization…

The finalized 3D prints of the Beyond the Bone Box cases: Phineas Gage (1832-1860), Johann Gaspar Spurzheim 1776-1832), and an Ancient Egyptian. These prints were completed as part of the Harvard Library S. T. Lee Innovation Grant May 2019-2020. They…

This is a screenshot from the Still (STL) 3D image software rendering of an Ancient Egyptian skull collected by Samuel G. Morton. This is one of twelve skulls Morton deemed "typical skulls." These twelve skulls were made into plaster casts and…

This is a screenshot from the Still (STL) 3D image software rendering of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim. It captures the finalized 3D animation of Spurzheim's skull based on a plaster cast. On the back of Spurzheim's skull contains a base that was created…

An image of a microscope slide. This image is included with Wolbach's photographs from his research at Camp Devens, but no case number is recorded

An image of the upper lobe of a right lung showing chronic bronchitis, peribronchitis, alveolar emphysema, and thickening of the interlobular septa

An image of a lung slide showing signs of chronic bronchitis and peribronchitis not affected by the initial lesions

An image of a left lung

An image of a lung showing lobar pneumonia following influenza pneumonia

An image of the lower lobe of a right lung with gangrene following the formation of a bronchiectatic abcess

An image of a portion of a right lung with secondary pneumonia

An image of a lung with interstitial emphysema

An image of a microscope slide showing clumps of influenza bacillia in the mucus membrane of a lung

An image of the lower lobe of a lung showing confluent bronchopneumonia

An image of a rectus muscle slide. The muscle was ruptured and hemorrhaged.

An image of a slide of a full lung that shows organizing bronchopneumonia.

An image of a microscope slide from a patient who died of influenza

An image of a right lung slide with the caption, "CAMP DEVENS CASE 224. RIGHT LUNG. EXTENSIVE ORGANIZATION WITH BRONCHIEC- / TASES. ORGANIZING BRONCHIAL PNEUMONIA. BRONCHITIS AND PERIBRONCHITIS. / ALVEOLAR EMPHYSEMA FROM A CASE WITH EMPHYSEMA OF…

An image of a lung slide with the caption, "CAMP DEVENS CASE 223. CHRONIC BRONCHITIS. BRONCHIECTASES, PERIBRONCHITIS / AND BRONCHOPNEUMONIA. THE ORIGINAL ALVEOLAR EMPHYSEMA IS SHOWN AT APEX. / BACTERIOLOGY BACILLUS INFLUENZAE. DURATION 23 DAYS FROM…

A photograph of the lower lobe of a right lung with the caption, "CAMP DEVENS CASE 223. LOWER LOBE RIGHT LUNG. EXTENSIVE NECROSIS AND / ORGANIZATIONS. BRONCHIECTATIC ABSCESSES. ALVEOLAR AND INTERSTITIAL / EMPHYSEMA. BACTERIOLOGY BACILLUS INFLUENZAE.…

An image of a microscope slide with the caption, "CAMP DEVENS CASE 223. ORGANIZATION OF EXUDATE IN BRONCHUS AND ORGANIZING / PERIBRONCHITIS. BACTERIOLOGY BACILLUS INFLUENZAE. DURATION 22 DAYS FROM / INITIAL SYMPTOMS."

An image of a microscope slide with the caption, "CAMP DEVENS CASE 219. CHRONIC BRONCHITIS, WITH ORGANIZING PERIBRONCHITIS. / ALVEOLAR EMPHYSEMA AND INTERSTITIAL EMPHYSEMA. EMPHYSEMA OF MEDIASTINUM / BACTERIOLOGY CABILLUS INFLUENZE. DURATION 21 DAYS…

An image of a microscope slide with the caption "CAMP DEVENS CASE 214. LOBAR PNEUMONIA SECONDARY TO INFLUENZA PNEUMONIA. / THE HYALIN FIBRINOUS DEPOSIT OUTLYING EMPHYSEMATOUS ALVEOLI OF THE INITIAL / INVOLVEMENT IS DISTINCTLY SEEN. BACTERIOLOGY…

An image of a microscope slide showing acute alveolar emphysema with hyalin fibrin deposit, which is characteristic of the initial stage of influenza pneumonias. The duration of the illness was 10 days from the initial symptoms.

Long cast iron bar tapered at one end and blunted at the other end. The bar is etched with an inscription that has been painted white. It rests in a brass and wood mount.

Prepared human skull on an adult man with sectioned skull top and disarticulated mandible. Skull has healed fracture line through left orbit ending in large opening with partially healed skull flap.

The museum entries for Phineas Gage's skull and iron bar can be found in the 1870 publication of The Descriptive Catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum. Gage's skull is listed as museum number 949 in the "Morbid Anatomy" in the "Second Division."…

This text is the official published catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum. The skull cast is listed in the "Third Division" of the 1870 catalogue, which is entitled "Miscellany." The catalogue's first division is entitled "Healthy" anatomy and…

The entry list the donation of twelve casts considered "typical skulls" from John Collins Warren to the Warren Anatomical Museum. These casts came from the skulls of Samuel George Morton's crania collection which were used to determine a standard…

A undated portrait of Samuel George Morton with a signature of his name below.

John Collins Warren writes to J. B. S. Jackson about his donation of twelve cast skulls made from the Morton crania collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Warren describes these casts as "typical skulls." Warren states that…

The Phrenological Journal and Miscellany (Edinburgh Phrenological Society) reprinted a letter from Nahum Capen and Robert M'Kibbed, M.D. Capen's letter mentions that Spurzheim's body was embalmed for his relatives if they wished for his body to be…