As I sorted through boxes of ear, nose, and throat instruments, I was excited to discover a clear collection forming. There were numerous instruments that had been carefully tagged with a description of the instrument and the name “Dr. J. W. Farlow."
While we were trying to figure out what our sorting process was going to be like, we found numerous yarn–covered cards. This looked more like a crafting set than a medical device.
Our Curatorial Assistant, Theodora Burbank, writes about a new therapeutic device called the Perkins tractor, one of the strangest medical fads she has encountered.
Brigham and Women's hospital Archivist, Catherine Pate, explores the origin of a mysterious metal box filled with labeled glass bottles and anesthesia paraphernalia…
From roughly the 1840’s through the 1940’s, the Warren Anatomical Museum (WAM) collected and acquired several hundred anatomical wet tissue specimens from medical institutions and from area physicians and academics.