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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.

These two photographs show Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) in his office in 1890. Two of Holmes’ chambered nautilus shells are visible on top of the bookcase.

Following Holmes’ resignation of his professorship at Harvard, the physicians of New York hosted a public dinner in his honor. Each guest was given a mock telegram from “The American Rabid Telegraph Company,” quoting lines from…