'A standing skeleton joins seated cadavers, preparing to dissect a sleeping medical student. Iconographic elements that by 1906 had become commonplace in dissecting room group portraiture are gathered together in this science: the book propped open on the "subject's" feet, the skull resting on a stool in front of the table, and a pipe fitted btween the skull's teeth.'
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Thorndike, Townsend W. (Townsend William), 1872-1929. Scrapbook, 1900-1908.
Gift of Townsend W. Thorndike to the Boston Medical Library, April 1, 1925.
