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  Warren Anatomical Museum - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Warren Anatomical Museum, located at Harvard Medical School in Boston, was founded in 1847 by Dr.
John Collins Warren, a professor at the university and a collector of unusual anatomical and pathological specimens.
These include the sorts of oddities that Dr. Warren once collected -- the museum's most famous holding is probably the skull of Phineas Gage -- as well as objects from significant moments in medical history, such as the inhaler used during the first public demonstration of ether-assisted surgery in 1846.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Warren_Anatomical_Museum   (115 words)

  
 Countway Medical Library - Warren Anatomical Museum FAQ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Warren was involved in the first demonstration of ether anesthesia in 1846.
The Warren Museum Exhibition Gallery is situated on the fifth floor of the Countway Library of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School's Longwood Campus.
The Museum's material collections and associated documentation, including the archival records of the Warren Museum, are presently undergoing a large scale inventory and cataloging project.
www.countway.med.harvard.edu /warren/faq.shtml   (1838 words)

  
 Harvard University: Museums
The Harvard University Art Museums are widely acclaimed for the quality of their extensive collections, including European and North American painting, prints, and photography (Fogg Museum); ancient, Asian, Islamic, and Indian arts (Sackler Museum); and German Expressionist painting (Busch-Reisinger Museum).
The HMNH is a public museum associated with several Harvard scientific research collections.
The Peabody Museum is devoted to the study of prehistoric and historic cultures.
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  Countway Rededication Celebration Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Warren Anatomical Museum was the gift of Dr. John Collins Warren, who collected anatomical and pathological specimens.
Warren gave most of his collection along with a $5,000 endowment to preserve it when he resigned his Harvard Medical School professorship in 1847.
In 1998 the museum collection was placed into storage to make room for research, classroom and administrative office space for the school.
www.hms.harvard.edu /countway_tour/warren.html   (356 words)

  
 Medical Museums USA - Dittrick Medical History Center - Case Western Reserve University
Museum of Medical Research at the National Institutes of Health was established in 1986 as a part of the NIH centennial observance.
National Museum of Civil War Medicine http://www.civilwarmed.org/ The Museum is the center for the study and interpretation of the medical history of the War Between the States.
National Museum of Health and Medicine http://www.nmhm.washingtondc.museum/ The National Museum of Health and Medicine began life as the Museum and Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army, and was until a few years ago known as the Armed Forces Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.
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 Hidden Museums - Panorama Magazine : The Official Guide to Boston and Boston Guide
The Boston Beer Museum isn’t so much a museum, technically, as it is a tour of the original brewery in Jamaica Plain—a Boston borough that was a brewing nexus in the early 20th century.
Warren also collected medical apparatus, and those pieces now represent one of the largest exhibited collections of early medical instruments, providing visitors with a fascinating look into the early, pioneering days of surgery and medical treatment.
Whereas most museums are about the grandeur and scope of some artistic masterpiece or dinosaur skeleton, the Gotlieb Center is a small museum celebrating intimate treasures—a place where no two visitors are likely to be thrilled by the same items equally.
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 Freak
The museum even has the armor bandage that was used to hold the nose in place for three weeks after it was reattached.
Warren's collection also features other skulls which were donated after fatal injuries all of which were much smaller than Gage's, such as an arrow piercing, or impact by a small cannon ball.
Probably the most benign oddity in the museum is the arm of a man who broke his humerus three times in one month and then absorbed the bone fragments.
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 Countway Medical Library - Warren Anatomical Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Warren Anatomical Museum is part of the Countway Library of Medicine's Center for the History of Medicine.
The Museum's exhibition gallery is located on the fifth floor of the Countway Library of Medicine and is open to the public free of charge Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
During the 19th and early 20th century, the Warren Museum's collection of both normal and pathological specimens served as an important resource for the study and teaching of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
www.countway.med.harvard.edu /warren   (873 words)

  
 A Brief History of the Collecting of Anatomical Specimens | n m h m
The National Museum of Health and Medicine was founded as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) by Congressional order during the Civil War to document the effects of war wounds and disease on the human body.
Accordingly, the collections of the museum were enhanced with specimens from U.S. soldiers and civilians as well as Native American combatants and allies.
Other medical museums of the period, such as the Warren Anatomical Museum at the Harvard Medical School and the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, had similar collecting practices.
nmhm.washingtondc.museum /collections/anatomical/articles/brief_history.html   (1580 words)

  
 Lady Medical College, Hardinge N.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 John Collins Warren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Warren was the first dean of Harvard Medical School (1816-1819) and promoted its move from Cambridge to Boston.
Warren presented Wells to his students but the patient who had been scheduled that morning, for an amputation, refused to be operated.
Later Dr. Warren presented his Laundy scalpel and probe, the surgical instruments he used in the operation, to Hawes in gratitude for recording some of the earliest anesthesia operations.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Collins_Warren   (790 words)

  
 BOS Museums: Displays of objects--Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Anatomical: Warren Anatomical Museum; collection of anatomical and pathological specimens given by Dr. John Collins Warren (1778-1856)
Ancient Honorable: Museum of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts; displays artifacts reflecting its mission to preserve historic and patriotic traditions; originally chartered in 1638 by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony for militia training; museum on the 4th Floor Faneuil Hall
Natural Hist: Harvard Museum of Natural History; public museum of Harvard University's three natural history institutions: the Botanical Museum, the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and the Mineralogical and Geological Museum; presents science and nature; affiliated with and connected to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
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 Anatomical Harvard Medical Museum School Warren
The Warren Anatomical Museum, located at Harvard Medical School in Boston, was...
...on permanent loan to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology from the Warren Anatomical Museum, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA.
The Warren Anatomical Museum, formerly housed in Building A of the Harvard Medical School, is now in storage.
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 Harvard Libraries: Warren Anatomical Museum
The museum was housed in a large room in the North Grove Street building in 1847, and moved with the School to its Boylston Street home in 1883, and again, to the Longwood campus in 1906, where it occupied the upper floors of the Medical School's main administration building.
It is the intent of the Museum to have some of its holdings searchable in VIA in the future.
The records of the Warren Anatomical Museum will also be catalogued and available for research in the future.
lib.harvard.edu /archives/0056.html   (311 words)

  
 Links related to the IMSS -- A Museum Dedicated to Surgical Science
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, members of the US Section speak over 40 languages and are dedicated to the global advancement of surgical excellence and knowledge.
Menczer Museum of Medicine and Dentistry of the Hartford Medical and the Hartford Dental Societies
Warren Anatomical Museum at the Countway Library of Medicine - Harvard University Medical School
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 Art and Medicine Bibliography, Jackson
It should be noted with curiosity that Harlow donated his specimens to the Warren Museum, choosing this repository over that of the Thomas Dent Mütter Cabinet associated with the Jefferson Medical College where he took his degree in 1844.
Both Warren's and Mütter's cabinets were established in 1847 but it was not until 1874, with the purchase of Hyrtl's collection of skulls, that the Mütter had a phrenological archive of any importance.
Lastly, it was probably significant for Harlow that the Warren cabinet held several other specimens of head injuries which were important for the study cerebral function including a remarkably similar case of a man who recovered after a length of pipe pierced his skull in a gas explosion.
www.artandmedicine.com /biblio/authors/Jackson.html   (1286 words)

  
 JCSW Canavan Biography page
Following the death of Curator William F. Whitney in 1921, the Warren Anatomical Museum was administered by a museum committee headed by Dr. S.
While the Dean of the Medical School did not object to a woman holding the post of Curator, some members of the museum committee did, and suggested that she be appointed with the title "Assistant Curator".
In 1924, Canavan was concurrently appointed associate professor of neuropathology at Boston University and Curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum at the Harvard Medical School.
www.hms.harvard.edu /jcsw/canavan.htm   (575 words)

  
 Prescription for Spring Break: A Dose of Medical History
John Collins Warren, M.D., donated $5,000 and his collection of anatomical and pathological specimens to found the museum in 1847.
One of the most famous items on display in the museum is the skull and life mask of Phineas Gage, who survived six years after an explosion in 1854 launched a 13-pound rod through his head.
The museum is filled with decidedly weird and sometimes downright disturbing specimens that should not be missed.
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 Museums Boston MA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Museum dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans.
The Warren Anatomical Museum is part of the Countway Library of Medicine's Center for the Boston, MA 02115.
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 NAGPRA NOTICES OF INVENTORY COMPLETION: Human Remains and Associated Funerary Objects in the Possession of the Peabody ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 1959, human remains representing two individuals were donated to the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology by the Warren Anatomical Museum, Harvard University Medical School.
Museum records indicate that these human remains were obtained by the Warren Anatomical Museum from a Dr. Morton of Alton, IL.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology also have determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2(e), there is a relationship of shared group identity that can be reasonably traced between these Native American human remains and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
www.cr.nps.gov /nagpra/fed_notices/nagpradir/nic0504.html   (372 words)

  
 Bizarro Boston
It's just one of 13,000 medical curios the museum has collected since the early 1800's.
His office was in the Dept. of Social Relation's Center for Personality Research in Morton Prince Hall, a house built in the 1840s and named for a professor of abnormal psychology at Harvard Medical School.
Now, when Leary was at Harvard, the house was located at 5 Divinity Ave., behind the Busch-Reisenger Museum.
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 NAGPRA NOTICES OF INVENTORY COMPLETION: Human Remains from Georgia in the Possession of the Peabody Museum of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
A detailed assessment of the human remains was made by the Peabody Museum of Arhcaeology and Ethnography professional staff in consultation with representatives of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma; the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, Louisiana; and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Mississippi.
Based on museum documentation, these human remains are believed to have been collected from an unknown location in Georgia, possibly by an individual names Hoyt.
Officials of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography have also determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared group identity which can be reasonably traced between these Native American human remains and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
www.cr.nps.gov /nagpra/fed_notices/nagpradir/nic0327.html   (486 words)

  
 American Experience | Murder at Harvard | Gallery
John Collins Warren, the son of renowned surgeon John Warren, taught at Harvard from 1809 to 1847, served as the first dean of the medical school, and helped found Massachusetts General Hospital.
Himself a leading surgeon of the day, Dr. Warren performed the first public demonstration of surgery on a patient anesthetized with ether provided by a Boston dentist, W. Morton.
Warren donated his collection of anatomical and pathological specimens to Harvard, where it formed the basis of the Warren Anatomical Museum, now located at the Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/murder/gallery/g_15.html   (138 words)

  
 Roger Search Results. Roadside America
The Warren Anatomical Museum is a small, free medical museum in the Longwood Ave.
Like a cabinet of wonder for the toy-collecting set, this is old-school children's museum display at its best.
Many of the over 3,000 miniatures that make up the dioramas in the Boston Children's Museum's Hall of Toys exhibit have been on display since 1911, when an educator founded the museum in his Jamaica Plain home.
www.roadsideamerica.com /roger/QueryTips.php3?offset=5&tip_Town=Boston&tip_State=MA   (656 words)

  
 European Traces of the History of Psychology: Paul Broca
His skull is on display at Harvard University's Warren Anatomical Musuem in Boston.
Spurzheim's skull, described as being unusually large, is currently on display at Harvard's Warren Anatomical Museum in Boston.
The Warren Anatomical Museum is located on the fifth floor of the Countway Library of Medicine in the Longwood Medical area at 10 Shattuck Street, Boston.
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 Warren Anatomical Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Warren Anatomical Museum, located at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, was founded in 1847 by Dr. John Collins Warren, a professor at the university and a collector of unusual anatomical and pathological specimens.
These include the sorts of oddities that Dr. Warren once collected -- the museum's most famous holding is probably the skull of Phineas Gage -- as well as objects from significant moments in medical history, such as the inhaler used during the first public demonstration of ether-assisted surgery in 1846.
 This article related to a museum in the United States is a stub.
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