Warren Anatomical Museum
About Warren Anatomical Museum
The Warren Anatomical Museum, part of Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, whose personal collection of 160 unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological specimens form the nucleus of the museum's 15,000-item collection.
The museum's first curator was J.B.S. Jackson. The museum became a part of Countway Library's Center for the History of Medicine in 2000.
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), and the skull of Phineas Gage, who survived a large iron bar being driven through his brain.
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