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Snowy yard
From box labeled "Switzerland and Family" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy town
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy town
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy town
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy street
From box labeled "Switzerland Family" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy street
From box labeled "Switzerland Family" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy street
From box labeled "Switzerland and Family" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy street
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy street
From box labeled "Algeria," containing images of Kazanjian and his family on vacation in Algeria and Switzerland.
Snowy mountainside
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy mountainside
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy mountainside
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy mountain
From box labeled "Camier pictures. Helene as Baby." containing stereoscopic photographs of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter, Helene, and family, as well as miscellaneous pictures of the return trip from Europe after the war and family vacations.
Snowy landscape
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy landscape
From box labeled "St. Croix. Switzerland" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy landscape
From box labeled "War Slides," including pictures of Camiers patients, officers, town, and hospital.
Snowy field
From box labeled "Switzerland Family" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy field
From box labeled "Switzerland and Family" containing pictures from a Kazanjian family vacation.
Snowy cemetery
From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
Smith-Petersen vitallium mould
Semi-spherical vitallium mold used for hip arthroplasty
Smith-Petersen vitallium mold
Semi-spherical vitallium mold. There is a rectangular red and white label with "12e Vitallium Cup" handwritten in black ink.
Smith-Petersen viscaloid mould
Reddish-brown semi-spherical viscaloid mould used for hip arthroplasty
Smith-Petersen viscaloid mold
Semi-spherical viscaloid mold. There is a rectangular red and white label with "12c Red Viscaloid Cup" handwritten in black ink.
Smith-Petersen viscaloid cup
Semi-spherical viscaloid cup. There is a tag with the item with "Viscaloid Cup" handwritten in black ink.
Smith-Petersen unknown measuring instrument
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.
Smith-Petersen stainless mold - "stainless shape cup"
Semi-spherical stainless steel mold. There is a red and white label with "12d Stainless Shape Cup" handwritten in black ink.
Smith-Petersen stainless mold
Semi-spherical stainless steel mold
Smith-Petersen nail - Temann Stainless
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.
Smith-Petersen nail
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
Smith-Petersen nail
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.
Smith-Petersen nail
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.
Smith-Petersen nail
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.
Smith-Petersen nail
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.
Smith-Petersen nail
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
Smith-Petersen instrument (?)
Chrome steel tool with a thick ridged handle, a cylindrical middle segment, and a pointed tip
Smith-Petersen gouge (?)
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…
Smith-Petersen glass mold
Three broken pieces of a semi-spherical glass mold used for hip arthroplasty
Smith-Petersen bakelite mold
Off-white semi-spherical bakelite mold used for hip arthroplasty
Small reamer
Small metal bell-shaped reamer with ridges and an adjustable handle
Small intestine of a lizard, magnified four times
Microscope slide of the small intestine of a lizard. Small intestine composed of a thick section of tissue encased in clear resin. Tissue image is magnified four times.
Sledding on a snowy street
From box labeled "Family" containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family, as well as miscellaneous pictures from France during World War I.
Sledding on a snowy street
From box labeled "Algeria," containing images of Kazanjian and his family on vacation in Algeria and Switzerland.
Slaveholder population of the United States
Statistical profile of the slaveholding population of the United States in 1850.
Slave population of the United States
Statistical profile of the slave population of the United States in 1850.
Skull with ball lodged in frontal bone
Catalog entry: A cranium, showing a ball lodged in the frontal bone, just above the right orbit and towards the median line, and which had been in that situation for about twenty-five years. The patient, aged forty-five, was sail-maker on board the…
Skull of Phineas Gage (1823-1860)
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.
Skull of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832)
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…
Sketch of Base Hospital No. 6 by Paul Dudley White.
A sketch of the plan of Base Hospital No. 6 from the diary of Paul Dudley White, May 1918.
Skeleton of the Warren mastodon in the Warren Museum of Natural History, circa 1906.
Photograph of the skeleton of the Warren mastodon, a portion of the zeuglodon, and other fossils in the Warren Museum of Natural History
Sixth plate cased daguerreotype of Phineas Gage (1823-1860), circa 1855.
Sixth plate (2 3/4" x 3 1/4") cased daguerreotype of post-injury Phineas Gage. Portrait-style image depicts Gage holding the tamping iron that caused his 1848 frontal lobe injury. Bar marked with inscription from the Warren Anatomical Museum. As with…
Sixteenth annual catalogue and report of the New-England Female Medical College.
A list of students in attendance at the New England Female Medical College during the 1863-64 term along with a list of the graduates of the Class of 1864.
Sixteen introductory lectures to courses of lectures upon the institutes and practice of medicine, with a syllabus of the latter (Philadelphia : Bradford and Innskeep, 1811)
This printed version of Rush’s medical lectures at the University of Pennsylvania includes an 1810 lecture on the study of medical jurisprudence—thought to be the first American treatise published on the subject. Rush opens his lecture stating,…
Sir William Osler.
Mounted photograph of Sir William Osler, inscribed to Henry Rouse Viets, January 26, 1917.
Sir William Osler in his library at 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford.
Photograph of Sir William Osler in his library at 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford, standing at fireplace before portraits of Thomas Linacre, William Harvey, and Thomas Sydenham.
Sir Francis Galton
Photograph of Sir Francis Galton from his book Memories of my life. Found on the plate facing page 244.
Silhouetted ruins
From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
Silhouette of Johann Gaspar Spurzheim
Like the Alvan Fisher oil portrait, this silhouette of J. G. Spurzheim appears to have been produced during his final years on his tour through the United States. The object in his hand is, of course, a skull.
Signatures of the new members of the Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society
Following the reorganization of the Medical Fraternity as the Medical Society, the members used this volume to record changes in the by-laws. New members added their signatures upon admission to the society through 1881.
Showing effect of the helmet in burnishing and splitting shell fragments
From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5. 1917-1919 .H. C. Cranial Wounds 1917 & 1918." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
Shoelace messages
From a collection of cards and objects sent to the Brigham and Women's Hospital by well-wishers after the terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The collection represents a fraction of the items of support, sympathy, and…
Ship pulls into port
From a box of 25 lantern slides from Harvey Cushing's service with U. S. Army Base Hospital, number 5. Made by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts.
Shelter built into a hill in the woods
From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.
SEXUAL HARASSMENT is not a compliment. It's offensive and illegal. 1985
Pamphlet created in 1985 by the Joint Committee on the Status of Women detailing resources to those experiencing sexual harassment.
Seven-fingered hand cast "mirror hand," 1853 [WAM 00917]
The subject was a German machinist, age thirty-seven. Born in 1815. The patient believed the hand was an advantage at playing the piano. He died of chronic diarrhea at Massachusetts General Hospital in March 1852. The limb was removed and…
Set of Dissection Knives
Dr. J. Collins Warren developed this particular model of dissection knife for use with tumors of the breast and had them produced by Codman and Shurtleff, the famous Boston firm of instrument makers. Dr. Warren presented this set to his colleague,…
Senior Staff Group
The Free Hospital’s Chief Surgeon, William Graves, and his successor, Frank A. Pemberton, assembled a strong staff of clinical researchers: from left: George V. S. Smith, who with his wife Olive, proposed uses for the synthetic estrogen, DES; John…
Seminar in Legal Medicine. Advanced Session for Medical Examiners, Coroners and Pathologists. Program. Page 01-02.
In 1945, the Department began to offer these educational seminars. The advanced session for medical examiners, coroners, and pathologists was conducted in association with Boston University and Tufts College.
The fall 1945 seminar in homicide…
The fall 1945 seminar in homicide…
Semina Colchicum Autumnale
Latin Name: Semina Colchicum Autumnale
Common Name: Bulb of autumn crocus, or meadowsaffron
Classification: Narcotic, diuretic, and diaphoretic
Isolated Drug/s: Colchicine
Medicinal Usage: Toxic and potent. The bulb of Colchicum Autumnale is…
Semina Cardamom
Latin Name:Semina CardamomCommon Name: Cardamom seedsClassification: Aromatic, carminative, and diaphoreticIsolated Drug/s: NoneMedicinal Usage:Semina Cardamom are employed as a corrective agent to stimulant, tonic, and purgative medicines. Often…
Self-Portrait in the Form of a Silhouette.
1 framed silhouette of Horace Wells.
Sefer Goralot
A treatise on Kabbalah, astrology and fortunetelling with elaborate diagrams of the zodiac. Ibn Ezra was an earnest apologist for astrology and translated many astrological treatises from Arabic into Hebrew. Maimonides, using Biblical law as a guide,…
Sefer ‘Evronot
Calendar- and almanac-making manuals were commonly used to calculate the solar and lunar Jewish calendar. In the fourth century CE, a fixed calendar was established based on astronomical and mathematical calculations. This calendar is still used, and…
Section of human incisor, magnified by two times
Microscope slide of a cross section of a human incisor
Secretary's room in Harvey Cushing's office
Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…
Scrapbook on the death of Robert Ware
An 1856 graduate of Harvard Medical School and son of faculty member, John Ware (1795-1864), Robert Ware was an inspector with the United States Sanitary Commission and later a surgeon with the 44th Massachusetts Volunteers. Nearly fifty letters…
Scientific Exhibit in the New Buildings of the Harvard Medical School
During the course of the AMA meeting, demonstrations, lectures, models, photographs and slides, and other anatomical, pathological and scientific exhibits were all mounted in the amphitheaters, laboratories, and museum galleries of the new buildings.…
Scalpel and Probe
This Laundy scalpel and probe were the surgical instruments used by Dr. John Collins Warren at the first public operation under ether at the Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. Dr. Warren presented the instruments along with his card…
Scalp wounds
From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5. 1917-1919 .H. C. Cranial Wounds 1917 & 1918." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
Scaler
This instrument was part of an ornamental set of scalers, mirrors, and a turnkey belonging to Thomas B. Hitchcock, former Dean of the Dental School.
