"Creviced" insoluble bone gelatin

"Creviced" insoluble bone gelatin

Warren Anatomical Museum

Archives for Women in Medicine

Elizabeth D. Hay Collection

Center for the History of Medicine Manuscript Transfer

Bone Development

Bone

Osteological Preparations

Osteology

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 entitled "PROCEDURE OF PREPARATION OF THE EXPLANTS"

Twelve pieces of insoluble bone gelatin.

Dr. Nogami

1970s

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Bone sent by Dr. Marshall Urist in letter inquiring as to success of Hay's research on "the use of bone matrix, and/or insoluble bone gelatin for a substratum for differentiation of outgrowths of mesenchymal cells from muscle." Letter held by Warren Anatomical Museum

Osteological Preparation: Human

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Osteological Preparation

physical object

Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 20494

Warren Anatomical Museum Accession Number: 2012.004

WAM 20494 was sent to Elizabeth Hay by Marshall R. Urist, M.D on November 7, 1973, along with a letter and instructions on how to use the sample written by his associate Dr. Nogami. It remained in her possession until she donated the sample with her manuscript collection to the Harvard Medical Library in 2007. It was transferred to the Warren Museum in 2011?.

Osteological Preparation

6.5 H x 9 W cm