Warren Anatomical Museum

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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 of 160 [2] unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens now forms 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]

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Early 2020s closure

The museum gallery was closed for renovation through winter/spring 2023, as stated on the museum's website, [6] although the collection remains accessible to researchers by appointment. Normally a rotating subset of items, including Gage's skull and the tamping iron that passed through it, is on public display.

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References

  1. ↑ Wolly, Brian (January 1, 2010). "Highlights From the Warren Anatomical Museum". Smithsonian. Retrieved October 22, 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 September 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ "The Ether Dome at Mass General". Massachusetts General Hospital. Retrieved October 22, 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 October 22, 2013.
  6. ↑ "Warren Anatomical Museum | Countway Library". countway.harvard.edu. Retrieved September 21, 2021.

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