Charles Lowell's pelvis and right and left femurs

Item Information

Title:
Charles Lowell's pelvis and right and left femurs
Title (alt.):
The Lowell Hip
Description:
Computerized tomography scan of the Charles Lowell's pelvis and distal ends of left and right femurs, mounted on wooden base painted black CT scan of Lowell Hip
Creator:
Herndon, James H., 1938-
Date:
2009
Format:
Film/Video
Genre:
Computerized Axial Tomography
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Warren Anatomical Museum
See Warren Anatomical Museum 07877 for Charles Lowell's pelvis and femurs
Osteological Preparation: Human
Exhibition: Body of Knowledge: A History of Anatomy [in 3 parts], March 3, 2014 - December 5, 2014
Subjects:
Hip Dislocation
Computerized Axial Tomography
Lowell, Charles, 1793-1858
Extent:
1 940kb video
Link to Item:
http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12935
Terms of Use:
The Harvard Medical Library does not hold copyright on all the materials in the collection. For use information, contact the Warren Anatomical Museum Curator at chm@hms.harvard.edu
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Notes:
Before Charles Lowell died in 1858, he requested a postmortem be performed to measure the extent of his hip injury. Harvard physician H. K. Oliver performed the autopsy and prepared the mounted specimen. In 2009 Harvard Medical School's William H. and Johanna A. Harris Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery James H. Herdon imaged the hip for his research on the Lowell case and donated the scans to the Warren Anatomical Museum.
Identifier:
Warren Anatomical Museum Catalog Number: 07877