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According to the description in Medical School's catalogue from that year, "In the study of gross anatomy, students make a complete dissection of one half of the human body, and all of the class dissect the same part at the same time. Four men will be assigned to the same subject, and will work together during the course. The study of the skeleton is carried on with the dissection, and each student will be provided with a box of bones which may be kept throughout the course. There will be lectures or demonstrations which are arranged to correspond as closely as possible with the work in the dissecting room. These lectures not only will serve as a guide to the regular work in the dissecting room, but also will be used to emphasize those details of human anatomy which the student cannot easily study for himself in his own dissection."
]]>First-year medical students, DeWitt Allen Green, Ernest Bingham Oliver, Harold Bengloff, and Bruce Robinson Merrill, produced these drawings as part of their assigned course work on a cadaver in the fall of 1934.
According to the description in Medical School's catalogue from that year, "In the study of gross anatomy, students make a complete dissection of one half of the human body, and all of the class dissect the same part at the same time. Four men will be assigned to the same subject, and will work together during the course. The study of the skeleton is carried on with the dissection, and each student will be provided with a box of bones which may be kept throughout the course. There will be lectures or demonstrations which are arranged to correspond as closely as possible with the work in the dissecting room. These lectures not only will serve as a guide to the regular work in the dissecting room, but also will be used to emphasize those details of human anatomy which the student cannot easily study for himself in his own dissection."
This copy was used and heavily annotated by Robert Paul Davis (1929-2005), a graduate of the Class of 1951 during his first-year studies in 1948.
]]>The Department of Anatomy produced and distributed this step-by-step manual for dissection "to help the student in the important task of displaying for study the structure of the human body. It represents one plan for completing each day's work with a minimum of wasted effort, or of accidental damage to important structures."
This copy was used and heavily annotated by Robert Paul Davis (1929-2005), a graduate of the Class of 1951 during his first-year studies in 1948.
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Just as his great-grandfather had been instrumental in establishing the Harvard Medical School in the eighteenth century, so Dr. J. Collins Warren provided the impetus for the construction of the buildings of the Quad at the beginning of the twentieth. With Dr. Henry P. Bowditch, J. Collins Warren developed plans for the Longwood campus, persuaded hospitals to relocate to the area, and obtained funds from John Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Mrs. Collis P. Huntingdon to make the new facilities a reality.
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On his return to America in 1802, Dr. John Collins Warren entered into partnership with his father and also began to assist him with anatomical lectures, dissections, and demonstrations at Harvard Medical School. He was named Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in 1809, then, at his father's death, assumed the Hersey Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery. He held that post until he was granted professor emeritus status in 1847. Dr. Warren was also the first dean of the Medical School and promoted its removal from Cambridge to Boston to obtain better access to clinical facilities. Over the course of his long career, he assembled an extraordinary teaching collection of anatomical and pathological specimens. He presented it to the Harvard Corporation in 1847 along with $5000. This was the beginning of the Warren Anatomical Museum.
]]>One of the most renowned American surgeons of the 19th century, Dr. John Collins Warren (born on August 1, 1778) graduated from Harvard College in 1797, then began the study of medicine with his father, Dr. John Warren. In 1799, he went abroad, continuing his medical studies in London and Paris, working with such luminaries as the pioneer anatomist Sir Astley Cooper (1768-1841). He received an honorary medical degree from Harvard in 1819.
On his return to America in 1802, Dr. John Collins Warren entered into partnership with his father and also began to assist him with anatomical lectures, dissections, and demonstrations at Harvard Medical School. He was named Adjunct Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in 1809, then, at his father's death, assumed the Hersey Professorship of Anatomy and Surgery. He held that post until he was granted professor emeritus status in 1847. Dr. Warren was also the first dean of the Medical School and promoted its removal from Cambridge to Boston to obtain better access to clinical facilities. Over the course of his long career, he assembled an extraordinary teaching collection of anatomical and pathological specimens. He presented it to the Harvard Corporation in 1847 along with $5000. This was the beginning of the Warren Anatomical Museum.
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