Charles Lowell's pelvis and right and left femurs

Charles Lowell's pelvis and right and left femurs

The Lowell Hip

Hip Dislocation

Computerized Axial Tomography

Lowell, Charles, 1793-1858.

Computerized tomography scan of the Charles Lowell's pelvis and distal ends of left and right femurs, mounted on wooden base painted black

CT scan of Lowell Hip

Herndon, James H., 1938-

2009

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See Warren Anatomical Museum 07877 for Charles Lowell's pelvis and femurs

Osteological Preparation: Human

Exhibition: Body of Knowledge: A History of Anatomy [in 3 parts], March 3, 2014 - December 5, 2014

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Computerized Axial Tomography

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Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 07877

Before Charles Lowell died in 1858, he requested a postmortem be performed to measure the extent of his hip injury. Harvard physician H. K. Oliver performed the autopsy and prepared the mounted specimen. In 2009 Harvard Medical School's William H. and Johanna A. Harris Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery James H. Herdon imaged the hip for his research on the Lowell case and donated the scans to the Warren Anatomical Museum.