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Anatomy and its Legacies: Artistic, Ethical, Scientific

Anatomists throughout history have worked to discover new angles of approach to the human body in order to reach the fullest understanding of its complexities. In this symposium, our four speakers endeavor to do the same, coming from different…

Tags: anatomy, archaeology, Eduard Pernkopf, Events, Henry Jacob Bigelow, Henry Jacob Bigelow Watercolor Collection, Medical ethics, medical illustrations, Oscar Wallis, Warren Anatomical Museum

Surgical Kit, Late 19th-Early 20th Century

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Civil War era United States medical staff sword, 1850-1880

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Civil War era United States medical staff sword, 1850-1880

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Auzoux model of human brain

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Auzoux model of an infant with removable abdominal organs

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Auzoux model of cat brain

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Auzoux model of cat brain, 19th century

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Auzoux model of viper brain, 19th century

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Auzoux papier-mache model of ear, 1850-1880

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Auzoux papier-mache model of man's face, 1844

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Eagle skeleton [WAM 00161] prepared by Oliver Wendell Holmes

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…

Tags: Art Institute of Boston, Exhibit: A Moment's Insight, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Warren Anatomical Museum

Art Institute of Boston student developing wet collodion plates

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Turtle skeleton being photographed on the Harvard Medical School quad

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Curry-Paxton style perimeter, 1920-1956

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Collection of microscope lenses and objectives belonging to Roderick Heffron, 1930-1950

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Becton, Dickinson, and Company Luer tuberculin syringe, 1930-1940

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Dickinson-Belskie model of the swing of the uterus

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Dickinson-Belskie "Birth Series 7B" model of fetus, 1939-1950

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Bust of Robert Latou Dickinson, 1946

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Teaching watercolor of a woman and her skeleton, after John Shaw's Distortions of Spine, by Oscar Wallis, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of hanging local subject with hip injury, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of femoral and inguinal hernias, after J. Lebaudy's The Anatomy of the Regions Interested in the Surgical Operations Performed upon the Human Body, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of male with inguinal hernia, after Richard Quain's The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of aneurysm in arm, after Charles Bell's Practical Essays, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of man with surgically opened chest, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of microscopic view of human cells, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of microscopic view of human cells, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of microscopic view of human cells, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of microscopic view of human cells, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of arteries of the arm and hand, after Richard Quain's The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of man with surgically dissected face and neck, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of microscopic view of human cells, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of microscopic view of human cells, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of external and microscopic view of human cells from mass in neck, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of human tissue, external and microscopic views, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of mass on mouth, external and microscopic views, 1848-1854

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Teaching watercolor of pelvic organs and arteries of the male body, after Richard Quain's The Anatomy of the Arteries of the Human Body, 1848-1854

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Celluloid shirt collar

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This collar was worn by a Boston streetcar motorman who was subject to attacks of dizziness and loss of consciousness on the job. Upon examination at Massachusetts General Hospital, it was determined that when the motorman turned his head, his stiff…

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Head mirror, 1910-1955

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Mounted newspaper clipping from Boston Herald announcing "Laloo" at Austin and Stone's Museum, December 1891.

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Mounted newspaper clipping from Boston Herald announcing "The Living 2 Headed Boy" at Austin and Stone's Museum, January 1892.

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Ripley's Believe It or Not Cartoon of Phineas Gage, 1947

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Powered Air Purifying Respirator (PAPR), 1967-1968

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Honorary Boston fire chief helmet, 1978

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Cannon Moulages

In 1943, Dr. Cannon joined the Medical Corps of the United States Army. He served in the plastic surgery unit at the Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania, as assistant chief and then chief. This unit performed over 15,000 operations without…

Tags: Bradford Cannon, Exhibit: Plastic Surgery in Boston, moulages, Plastic surgery, Warren Anatomical Museum