A small volume of annotated photographs of the interiors and exteriors of the Free Hospital for Women located in Brookline Massachusetts, taken in the late 19th century
In this correspondence Dr. Hawkes is looking for support from Dr. Warren in the courtroom. Fundamentally, however, Dr. Warren disagrees with the way in which he decided to proceed with setting Lowell's dislocation.
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…
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…
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.
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.
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…
Model of human placenta designed in the style of Elizabeth Hay by Harvard Student Eric Horn. Used as instruction in HMS embryology coursework. Painted blue, green, light red, red, and purple to highlight various parts of placenta. Amniotic ectoderm…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, 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.
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…
David Davis Rutstein (1909-1986), S.B., 1930, Harvard College, M.D.; 1934, Harvard Medical School, Boston, joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School in 1947 as Professor of Preventive Medicine and was head of the Department of Preventive Medicine…