Warren Anatomical Museum
The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren,[1] whose personal collection comprised 160[2] unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens which now form the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-piece collection.[3] The Warren also has objects significant to medical history, such as the inhaler used during the first public demonstration of ether-assisted surgery in 1846 (on loan to the Massachusetts General Hospital since 1948[4]), and the skull of Phineas Gage, who survived a large iron bar being driven through his brain. The museum's first curator was J.B.S. Jackson.[5]
A rotating subset of items is open to the public.
See also
References
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Sources
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- Jackson, John B.S. (1870). A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum. Wikisource.
External links
- Warren Museum website
- finding aid for Warren Anatomical Museum in Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
- Medical Heritage Library Increases Warren Museum Accessibility
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