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Ziegler chick embryological model
Colored wax model of early chick development mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of chick. Part of twenty-three piece model series created by Adolf Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
Wooden binaural stethoscope, late 19th century
Denison’s type of stethoscope. The ear pieces are made of dark brown wood (?) which lead into flexible woven tubes and a large chest piece. Originally this type of stethoscope comes with three interchangeable chest pieces for hearing different types…
Vial of sheep lung surfactant ("Surfactant TA")
Vials of Surfactant TA (Tokyo Akita), a modified sheep lung surfactant, brought back from Tetsuro Fujiwara's lab at Akita University School of Medicine, Japan, by Mary Ellen Avery. Building off of Avery's 1959 discovery that the cause of Respiratory…
United States Navy amputation kit
These instruments were used by Union Navy Assistant Surgeon and 1861 Harvard Medical School graduate Charles Thatcher Hubbard aboard the USS Unadilla during the American Civil War. The Unadilla was one of the Union's 2390 day gunboats and was…
Twenty microscope slides with tissue
Twenty microscope slides with tissue, displaying various stain colors. Each slide labeled in printed text "Pathology Dept. / Children's Hospital / Medical Center / Boston, Mass." Stored in heavy cardboard double-hinged mailer.
Twenty microscope slides with tissue
Twenty microscope slides with tissue, displaying various stain colors. Each slide labeled in printed text "Pathology Dept. / Children's Hospital / Medical Center / Boston, Mass." Stored in heavy cardboard double-hinged mailer.
Transverse section of muscle tissue, magnified ten times
Microscope slide exhibiting a transverse section of human muscle tissue, stained and mounted by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tissue is magnified ten times.
Tourniquet, invented during the American Civil War for the personal use of soldiers
This tourniquet was invented during the American Civil War for the personal use of soldiers. Large numbers of these tourniquets were manufactured and supplied to the war's participants.
Inscription: "Lambert S. JANY 7 1869"
Inscription: "Lambert S. JANY 7 1869"
Thoracic vertebra with cut-mark
Vertebra of a 25 year old man who was stabbed in the middle of the right side of the neck with a broad and sharp knife, and was treated at Massachusetts General Hospital, arriving approximately an hour after the injury, pale and with a diminished…
Teased nerve fixed in osmic acid, magnified twenty times
Microscope slide of a human nerve, teased out and fixed in osmic acid. Nerve image is magnified twenty times
Tamping iron that caused the injury to Phineas Gage, 1848
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.
Sweat glands, magnified ten times
Microscope slide of human sweat glands stained and mounted by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tissue is magnified ten times.
Surgical kit owned and used by Damascus (Syria) - based physician Habib Cachecho (1868-1938), late 19th century.
Surgical kit with a purple velvet interior and a wooden case. Forty one instruments are included in kit.
Stella musculosa nuchae
Border lines of knowledge, in some provinces of medical science is a published and somewhat expanded version of Holmes’ introductory lecture to the students at Harvard Medical School at the opening of term on November 6, 1861. Although he refers to…
Statement from John C. Warren
A statement assessing Charles Lowell's character for the sake of the Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes trial.
Stage two Ziegler human embryological model
Colored wax model of human embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of embryo BB named after it's physician-donors, Bischoff and Basel. Part of eight piece model series created by Friedrich Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
Stage three Ziegler human embryological model
Colored wax model of human embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of embryo BB named after it's physician-donors, Bischoff and Basel. Part of eight piece model series created by Friedrich Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
Stage six Ziegler human embryological model
Colored wax model of human embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of embryo Lr named after its physician-donors, Lomer and Leipzig. Part of eight piece model series created by Friedrich Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
Stage seven Ziegler human embryological model
Colored wax model of human embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of embryo A named after its physician-donors, Ahlfeld and Leipzig. Part of eight piece model series created by Friedrich Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
Stage one Ziegler human embryological model
Colored wax model of human embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of embryo BB named after it's physician-donors, Bischoff and Basel. Part of eight piece model series created by Friedrich Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm…
Stage nine Ziegler chick embryological model
Colored wax model of early chick development mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of chick at ninth stage, four days. Part of twenty-three piece model series created by Adolf Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
Stage five Ziegler human embryological model
Colored wax model of human embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of embryo Lr named after its physician-donors, Lomer and Leipzig. Part of eight piece model series created by Friedrich Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
Stage eight Ziegler human embryological model
Colored wax model of human embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of embryo A named after its physician-donors, Ahlfeld and Leipzig. Part of eight piece model series created by Friedrich Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
Stage eight Ziegler chick embryological model
Colored wax model of chick embryo mounted onto pedestal base. Model shows dissected view of chick at eighth stage, three days. Part of twenty-three piece model series created by Adolf Ziegler in accordance with Wilhelm His.
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.
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.
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…
Section of human incisor, magnified by two times
Microscope slide of a cross section of a human incisor
Right scapula, showing a well-defined circular rifle ball perforation
This scapula was found or removed from an unidentified soldier injured on a Virginia battlefield in 1863.
Inscription: "984 12-3 Civil War Gettysburg" written on the underside of the base in pencil; Hand written label "984. Gun Shot Fracture."…
Inscription: "984 12-3 Civil War Gettysburg" written on the underside of the base in pencil; Hand written label "984. Gun Shot Fracture."…
R & J Beck classroom demonstration microscope
A classroom demonstration brass monocular microscope with mirror and oil lamp, used by Oliver Wendell Holmes. It is mounted onto a wooden base with a heavy wooden handle.
Questions intended for Dr. Warren and his surgical team
A handwritten list of questions written by Charles Lowell to be answered by Dr. John Collins Warren, Dr. James Mann, Dr. William Spooner, Dr. David Townsend, and Dr. Thomas Welsh for the sake of the case known as Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes. Lowell…
Questions intended for Charles Lowell
A set of questions intended for Charles Lowell to answer regarding the case Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes, in which he sued his physicians over a dislocated hip bone.
Preparation showing various types of tooth fillings and upper denture,1887, [WAM TEMP00493]
Twenty-nine dental preparations in glass dome on wooden base. Teeth mounted on two gold arches.
Preparation of Dental Fillings
Another student piece illustrates the various techniques and compounds which could be used for filling teeth. There are twenty-nine dental preparations in a glass dome on a wooden base. The teeth are mounted on two gold arches.
Post-mortem set in wooden case, 1860 - 1880 [WAM 20441]
Post-mortem set of fifteen instruments.
Portions of humerus removed for an ununited fracture after gunshot wound
Case history:From an unidentified soldier whose arm was shattered by gunshot in mid-April 1862. Immediately after the injury fragments were removed from the arm, the ends of the fractured bone were sawed off, and fit together. After six months…
Portion of fractured comminuted right femur
Inscription: "6691" written on the shaft in red; "6691" etched on the underside of the base.
Plaster model of embryo aged 8-10 weeks
Unpainted plaster model of human embryo head. Plaster set on wire mesh. Part of a set of teaching models.
Plaster model of embryo aged 7-8 weeks
Unpainted plaster model of human embryo head. Model sectioned at mouth aperture. Plaster set on wire mesh. Part of a set of teaching models.
Plaster model of embryo aged 6-7 weeks
Unpainted plaster model of human embryo head. Model sectioned at mid-body to expose tail interior. Plaster set on wire mesh. Part of a set of teaching models.
Plaster model of embryo aged 5-6 weeks
Unpainted plaster model of human embryo head. Model sectioned at mid-body to expose tail interior. Plaster set on wire mesh. Part of a set of teaching models.
Plaster model of embryo aged 17-20 days
Unpainted plaster model of human embryo. Part of a set of teaching models.
Photographs of Charles Lowell's hip bone mounted on display
Four photographs taken of Lowell's hip bone from different angles, so it is possible to see the calcification of bone, in addition to the formation of a new socket below the acetabulum.
Pencil drawings of front and side view of head and face of child with sarcoma of the jaw
Pencil drawing of a boy's head, face, and upper torso in two views. The left hand drawing depicts the subject facing forward and the right hand drawing profiles the face on the tumor side. Drawings are side by side on ivory paper. "O. W. del. /…
Painted foam and wood teaching model of the human embryo
Teaching model of human embryo designed and used by Elizabeth Hay. Three separate and interactive pieces. Hard plastic shell painted red inside and blue outside with blue pom poms attached to exterior and small red polystyrene block on inner right…
Muscle sarcolemma of a frog, magnified four times
Microscope slide of the muscle sarcolemma of a frog, stained and mounted by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tissue is magnified four times.
Mounted snapping turtle skeleton, 1855 [WAM 00179]
Articulated skeleton of a snapping turtle mounted on black painted wooden base
Mounted preparation showing first intercostal arteries
Dried and injected anatomical preparation mounted onto black wooden base. Coated with unknown preservative.
Back of wooden base has red diagram showing origin and distribution of intercostal arteries.
Back of wooden base has red diagram showing origin and distribution of intercostal arteries.
