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Charriere dissection kit
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…
Bone box with appendicular bones.
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]"
"Homo.
Teenage [18]
Epiph not
fused
Long bone[s]"
Diminutive Supernumerary
This supernumary tooth was removed from the jaw of an 11 year old boy; the rest of his teeth were very large.
Engraving of Charles Lowell's hip bone
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.
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…
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.
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.
Fetal Skeleton Separated and Mounted
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
?
Rue de la Sorbonne No.18
PARIS
VASSEUR
NATURALISTE, PREPARATEUR
d'Osteologie
?
Rue de la Sorbonne No.18
PARIS
Dissected Superior and Inferior Maxillary Bones
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…
Crystalline Proteolipid B
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…
Colored drawing of fractured femur with cancerous growth
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.
Teaching watercolor of phlebitis and sepsis
After Sir Jonathan Hutchinson's Illustrations of clinical surgery, plate 36
Teaching watercolor of a gangrenous ulcer on the thigh of a boy
After the description by John Bell in The principles of surgery p. 109
Teaching watercolor of true and false keloid scars
After Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert's Description des maladies de la peau, v.2, plates after pg. 36
Teaching watercolor of skin neoplasms, a man's head with skin cancer near the mouth, and a magnified view of skin cancer ulcer
After Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert's Description des maladies de la peau, v.2, plate between pages 45 and 46, and after Carl Thiersch's Der Epithelialkrebs namentlich der Haut atlas, table VI
Teaching watercolor of a keloid scar after a scald and of a boy with face and neck scarring
After Sir Jonathan Hutchinson's Illustrations of Clinical Surgery, plate 88, and after a photograph probably taken by J. Collins Warren
Teaching watercolor of general emphysema following penetrating stab wound of the thorax
After Franz von Pitha and Theodor Billroth's Handbuch der allgemeinen und speciellen Chirurgie, vol. III, C, page 136
Teaching watercolors of early appearances of entry and exit gunshot wounds
After Medical and surgical history of the War of the Rebellion, plates 39 and 40
Teaching watercolor of entrance and exit gunshot wounds through bone
After the Report of the Surgeon General of the Army 1893, and after a photograph from the U.S. Army Medical Museum
Teaching watercolor of an unknown female subject with a rectal prolapse
Possibly of a local Boston patient
Teaching watercolor of total abdominal hysterectomy
After J. M. Baldy's American text-book of gynecology, plate XXVI and XXVII
Teaching watercolor of vaginal hysterectomy with clamps
After J. M. Baldy's American text-book of gynecology, plate XIX