The Warren Museum recently acquired two new artifacts. R. Bryan and Drew Trainor donated a pocket surgery kit to the Museum that had been passed down through their family.
In 1963, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a parent hospital of the current incarnation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, celebrated its 50th anniversary. One way staff marked the occasion was with a time capsule...
In the September 5th edition ofThe Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, William H. and Johanna A. Harris Professor of Orthopedic Surgery James H. Herndon, M.D. published an orthopedic and historical analysis of one of the Warren Museum’s most compelling medical cases, the sacrum, pelvis and femur upper extremities of an early 19th century Maine resident named Charles Lowell.
Partially in the handwriting of Dr. John Warren(1753-1815), this volume of lecture notes on anatomy, beginning in December 1783, is the earliest surviving record of teaching at Harvard Medical School.
