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The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within
Warren Museum website
Finding aid for Warren Anatomical Museum
in Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Medical Heritage Library Increases Warren Museum Accessibility
History of anatomy Harvard Medical School Medical museums in the United States University museums in Massachusetts Museums in Boston Science museums in Massachusetts {{Boston-struct-stub
The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is cons ...
's Countway Library of Medicine
The Boston Medical Library (est. 1875) of Boston, Massachusetts, was originally organized to alleviate the problem that had emerged due to the scattered distribution of medical texts throughout the city. It has evolved into the "largest academic ...
, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren
John Collins Warren (August 1, 1778 – May 4, 1856) was an American surgeon. In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesia while Warren performed a minor surgical procedure. News of this first public demonstrati ...
, whose personal collection of 160 unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens now forms the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-item collection. The Warren also has objects significant to medical history, such as the inhaler used during the first public demonstration of ether
In organic chemistry, ethers are a class of compounds that contain an ether group—an oxygen atom connected to two alkyl or aryl groups. They have the general formula , where R and R′ represent the alkyl or aryl groups. Ethers can again ...
-assisted surgery in 1846 (on loan to the Massachusetts General Hospital since 1948), and the skull of Phineas Gage
Phineas P. Gage (18231860) was an American railroad construction foreman known for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and ...
, who survived a large iron bar being driven through his brain. The museum's first curator was J.B.S. Jackson.
Closed until 2022
The museum gallery is closed for renovation until 2022, 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. __NOTOC__See also
* William Fiske Whitney *Harvard Dental Museum The Harvard Dental Museum dates from the late 1870s but the exact date of its formation is unknown. The first annual ''Announcement of The Dental School'' indicates a museum was in existence, or at least in prospect, in 1868-69. The original specime ...
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Warren Museum website
Finding aid for Warren Anatomical Museum
in Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Medical Heritage Library Increases Warren Museum Accessibility
History of anatomy Harvard Medical School Medical museums in the United States University museums in Massachusetts Museums in Boston Science museums in Massachusetts {{Boston-struct-stub