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This renowned publication catalogues different types of dislocations and lists their appropriately corresponding treatment. It was referenced throughout the trial of Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes.

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Published in retaliation of the outcome of the final trial, Lowell makes a plea to the public to sympathize with him and his case.

Twelve pieces of bone matrix - or "creviced" insoluble bone gelatin - enclosed in clear plastic bag. Donated with two-page letter detailing, amongst other things, context for sample. Attached to letter five-page technical instructions by Dr. Nogami…

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An overall presentation of the facts and analyses confronted in the Lowell hip case.

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Charles Lowell's personally written account of the entire trial Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes.

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An examination of the Lowell hip case by Dr. Jonathan Mason Warren, over 40 years after the trial took place. He looks at the disected hip bone - Charles Lowell died in 1858 - in an attempt to discover what really happened.

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John C. Warren's published account of the trial, Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes.

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A letter to the editor written by Charles Lowell voicing the injustices of the outcome of his case.

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Amputation saw found in rectangular wooden amputation kit. Top area of kit contains one large ivory-handled amputation saw with vertical slots in blade and textured handle, fastened to inside lid of box by two metal swinging tabs.

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B-133 is inscribed in red ink on the box and a black label on the front reads:

"Homo.
Teenage [18]
Epiph not
fused
Long bone[s]"

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In 1943, Dr. Cannon joined the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He served in the plastic surgery unit at the Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania, as assistant chief and then chief. This unit performed over 15,000 operations without…

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Black enamel compound monocular microscope with brass knobs and objectives used by Lynne M. Reid and S. Burt Wolbach before her. Nose-piece contains four objective lenses. Illuminator has aperture to control light levels. More modern wooden…

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Handwritten chart from the records of Massachusetts General Hospital noting the following fields of information: date, name, kind (of hip dislocation), cause, date discharged, result, and remarks (notes on operation, e.g. with pulleys). The records…

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Hollow plaster case of head, neck, and upper portion of thorax of 10 year old boy with tumor on left side, painted white

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This collar was worn by a Boston streetcar motorman who was subject to attacks of dizziness and loss of consciousness on the job. Upon examination at Massachusetts General Hospital, it was determined that when the motorman turned his head, his stiff…

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Computerized tomography scan of the Charles Lowell's pelvis and distal ends of left and right femurs, mounted on wooden base painted black

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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…

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The wooden chess set pieces were carved by Zabdiel Boylston Adams and Fred Guyer during internment at Libby Prison in May 1864. Both were Captains in the Union army and injured and captured at the Battle of Wilderness.

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After World War II, Harvard researcher Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953) devised a small centrifuge in which a donor's blood could be quickly separated into its components and stored more efficiently. The centrifugal force employed divides the heavier…

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Colored drawing of femur with pronounced disease on ivory colored paper. Drawing depicts growth within fracture. "9865. / (19-5)" and "WM. J. KAULA / NOV. 21, 1900" is handwritten in ink on the drawing recto.

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Catalog entry: Extensive sabre wound of the right frontal bone; there is still a small opening quite through, though the injury seems to have been well repaired. Received on board one of the United States vessels during the war of 1812.

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This cranium fragment is from a solider of the American Civil War. He exhibited no symptoms after injury. The wound developed into a brain abscess and the soldier died 3 weeks after being shot.
Inscription: in pencil on bottom of base: "Civil War /…

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This Pyrex test tube contains crystalline proteolipid B that HMS Professor of Biological Chemistry Emeritus Marjorie Berman Lees (1923- ) isolated from brain white matter on July 12, 1949, early in her groundbreaking research with Dr. Jordi Folch-Pi…

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Detecto Physician Scale with 350 lb. capacity used in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Longitudinal Study of Child Health and Development (1930-1987)

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This supernumary tooth was removed from the jaw of an 11 year old boy; the rest of his teeth were very large.

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This specimen of dissection shows arrested development of the permanent teeth. The specimen is of dissected superior and inferior maxillary nones showing arrested development of permanent tooth germs, natural absorption of roots of temporary…

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Dissection Kit owned and used E. Tessa Hedley-Whyte. Kit is a tied roll of canvas with inside pocket-inserts holding a variety of picks, scissors, and tweezers

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The preparation was originally collected and mounted by the Army Medical Museum in Washington, D.C., most likely number 460. Army Medical Museum 460 was a gunshot fracture of the femur from an Union soldier in the American Civil War. Inscription: in…

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Inscription: "6693 12-3" Stamped on the bone in red; "6693 12-3 12" written on the underside of the base in pencil.

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The objects inside this kit indicate that the original owner was probably an obstetrician who may have been a practitioner of Dämmerschlaf or “Twilight Sleep.” A combination of morphine, to mitigate pain, and scopolamine to cause amnesia, was given…

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Based on: Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart...Boston: Wait, Thomas B., 1809.

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Based on: Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart...Boston: Wait, Thomas B., 1809.

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Photograph of eagle skeleton [WAM 00151] prepared by and donated by Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1851. Eagle skeleton is being photographed on the Harvard Medical School quad by artists from the Art Institute of Boston in…

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Ear, nose and throat diagnostic set enclosed in wooden case with black cloth covering. Case interior is brown-orange baize. The case closes with a sliver metal clasp in front. Kit contains one silver metal otoscope, one black metal ophthalmoscope,…

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A write-up in the local Maine newspaper about the Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes trial. It discusses the case, and nicely outlines all of the contradicting professional diagnoses.

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A copy of a review of the Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes case that was originally published in the Medical Intelligencer on August 16th and the 23rd of that year. A reader requested that it be printed in order so that he might use the local newspaper as…

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A letter to the editor criticizing the Review printed on November 12, 1825.

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Additional public commentary on the Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes case. The author criticizes Dr. Warren for believing the dislocation was in the ischiatic notch.

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During her tenure as an HMS professor and researcher, Elizabeth Dexter Hay (1927-2007) achieved many notable

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The original “iron lung” respirator was designed by Phillip Drinker with Louis Agassiz Shaw at the Harvard School of Public Health. Its first clinical use occurred on October 12, 1928 at the Boston Children’s Hospital. The subject was an…

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An engraving depicting the mounted hip bone which appears in John Mason Warren's "Surgical Observations with Cases and Operations" to illustrate his discussion of the Lowell case.

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Black enamel compound monocular microscope with brass knobs and objectives. Circular mirror light scope. Three objectives attached to scope. Contained in wooden microscope case with brass handle. Case contains four objectives housed in interior…

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Modified Schimmelbusch (style 1889) ether/chloroform mask. Masks like these were covered with a gauze cloth, then placed over the patient’s mouth and nose, while drops of either chloroform or ether were applied to the cloth until the patient became…

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Modified Esmarch (style 1877) ether/ chloroform mask, Masque de Demarquey, by French manufacturer Mathieu. The folding frame was intended to make the mask adjustable over diverse facial anatomy. Masks like these were covered with a gauze cloth, then…

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This amputated head of the left humerus was excised from a soldier in the American Civil War. He was shot at the battle of Fredericksburg. The amputation was performed sometime after the injury by Algernon Coolidge and was successful. The soldier was…

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This blue box contains the separated and mounted skeleton of a fetus enclosed behind glass. The manufacturer label is inscribed:
VASSEUR
NATURALISTE, PREPARATEUR
d'Osteologie
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Rue de la Sorbonne No.18
PARIS

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Flexible monaural stethoscope, having a metal chest piece at one end and very short, straight earpiece at the other. The tube consist of two components - metal and textile sleeves.

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Case history: From an active, and powerful man who served as an artillerist in the American Civil War. In 1864, his hand was severely injured by the premature discharge of a cannon. It was amputated at the wrist joint. Subsequently, the forearm was…

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Case history: This radius and ulna was from a 35 year old soldier injured on July 3, 1863 at Gettysburg. His radius was fractured by gunshot and his ulna by a two inch long piece of fragmented gun barrel. The soft tissue of the soldier's arm was…

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Inscription: "No. 152" written on the underside of the base in pencil; "6780." written on a small label adhered to the bone.

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Catalog entry: A large portion of the lower jaw shot away, the patient recovering with a very good mouth. The specimen consists of a single, entire piece, including the whole width of the jaw, and to the full extent of the incisor teeth, and one, if…

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