Warren Anatomical Museum

Skull of Phineas Gage

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-item 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 on public display.

See also

• William Fiske Whitney

References

1. Wolly, Brian (January 1, 2010). "Highlights From the Warren Anatomical Museum". Smithsonian. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
2. Jackson, J.B.S. (1870). A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum. Boston: Williams. p. iv.
3. "Warren Anatomical Museum". Harvard Medical School. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
4. "The Ether Dome at Mass General". Massachusetts General Hospital. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
5. Whitney, William F. (1911). The Warren Anatomical Museum of the Harvard Medical School and the arrangement of its collection. Boston: Harvard Medical School. p. 2. Retrieved 22 October 2013.

Sources

• Whitney, William F. (1910). Bulletin of the Warren Anatomical Museum. Boston: Harvard Medical School.
• 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