1840 HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783); FORDYCE, George (1736 – 1802); COMBE, W.; PITCAIRN, David (1749 – 1809)
Catalogue of anatomical preparations in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
"The following Catalogue is, to the best of our knowledge and belief, a true Catalogue of the Anatomical Prepartions left by the late Dr. William Hunter.--G. Fordyce, David Pitcairn, W. Combe." Digital facsimile from …
GMN 7587 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9759
1840 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
Numbers 901-929 in Morton's catalogue are "Thirty Skulls of genuine unmixed NEGROES born in Africa. This interesting series series was collected by Don José Rodriguez Cisnerso, M. D. of Havana, in the island of Cuba, …
GMN 8828 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11006
1842 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793)
A descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the calculi and other animal concretions contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London.
The collection formed by John Hunter, to which was added the collection formed by Hans Sloane acquired from the British Museum in 1809, and material from other donors. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at th…
GMN 7599 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9771
1842 ANDRAL, Gabriel (1797 – 1876); LACROIX, Louis Edward; DENONVILLIERS, Charles-Pierre (1808 – 1872)
Muséum d'anatomique pathologique de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris, ou Musée Dupuytren. Publié au nom de la Faculté. 2 vols. and atlas.
Plates lithographed after drawings by Émile Beau. Digital facsimile from BnFGallica at this link.
GMN 10381 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12573
1843 GREAT BRITAIN. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Catalogue of Reptiles contained in the Museum of the Medical Department of the Army, Fort Pitt, Chatham.
Chiefly specimens collected by medical officers stationed in Canada, Australia, and India, as well as other colonies. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10377 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12569
1844 WEBB, Allan (1803 – 1863)
Pathologia Indica, or, The anatomy of Indian diseases, medical and surgical: Based upon morbid specimens from all parts of India in the museum of the Calcutta Medical College; illustrated by detailed cases, with the prescriptions and treatment employed, and comments, physiological, practical and historical.
Significantly expanded second edition, in two parts (Calcutta: Thacker & Co., 1848). Digital facsimile of the 1848 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8810 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10988
1844 THIBERT, Félix
Musée d'anatomie pathologique. Bibliothèque de médecine et de chirurgie pratiques représentant en relief les altérations morbides du corps human, nouve procédé fondé sur les avantages d'une matière inaltérable et d'une peinture indélébile.
The author described himself as "Préparateur des pièces artificielles d'anatomie pathologique, a la Faculté de Médecine de Paris." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13847 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16137
1845 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the fossil organic remains of mammalia and aves contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
This is the catalogue of John Hunter's collection, with a very few additions from other sources. Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16152
1846 PAGET, Sir James (1814 – 1899)
A descriptive catalogue of the anatomical museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7600 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9772
1846 –1849 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 5 vols.
Vol.1: General pathology -- Vol.2: Pathology of the blood, and organs of locomotion -- Vol.3 Pathology of the organs of digestion, absorption and circulation -- Vol.4: Pathology of the respiratory and urinary organs, …
GMN 13859 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16149
1847 JACKSON, John Barnard Swett (1806 – 1879)
A descriptive catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7602 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9774
1850 –1863 CABANIS, Jean Louis (1816 – 1906); HEINE, Jakob Gottlieb Ferdinand (1809 – 1894)
Museum Heineanum: Verzeichniss der ornithologischen Sammlung des Oberamtmann Ferdinand Heine, auf Gut St. Burchard vor Halberstadt, mit kritischen Anmerkungen und Beschreibung der neuen Arten, systematisch bearbeitet von Jean Cabanis. 4 vols.
Heine collected the largest private collection of birds in the mid-19th century. His collection of 27,000 specimens and 15,000 books is preserved the Heineanum Halberstadt Museum in Halberstadt. Digital facsimile from…
GMN 13001 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15250
1850 –1855 QUEKETT, John Thomas
Descriptive and illustrated catalogue of the histological series contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Vol. I. Elementary tissues of vegetables and animals; Vol. II. Structure of the skeleton of vertebrate animals. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 13157 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15416
1853 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
Descriptive catalogue of the osteological series contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from wellcomecollection.org at this link.
GMN 13860 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16150
1854 GRATACAP, Paul-Antoine (CAP) (1788 – 1877)
Le Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. Histoire de la fondation et les développements successifs de l'établissement; Biographie des hommes célèbres qui y ont contribué par leur enseignement ou par leurs découvertes, histoire des recherches, des voyages, des applications utiles auxquels le muséum a donné lieu, pour les arts, le commerce et l'agriculture; description des galeries, du jardin, des serres et de la ménagerie.
Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.
GMN 13337 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15605
1854 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of Reptilia and Pisces contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13865 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16155
1855 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of plants contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13864 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16154
1856 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835); HOUEL, Charles-Nicolas (1815 – 1881)
Manuel d'anatomie pathologique générale et appliquée: Contenant la description et le catalogue du Musée Dupuytren.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11146 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13343
1856 MUTTER, Thomas Dent (1811 – 1859)
Catalogue of the pathological museum of Prof. T. D. Mutter.
Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.
GMN 11301 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13499
1856 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of invertebrata contained in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13863 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16153
1857 MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851); MEIGS, James Aitken (1829 – 1879)
Catalogue of human crania, in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia: Based upon the third edition of Dr. Morton's "Catalogue of Skulls," &c.
"Since the death of the late lamented President of the Academy of Natural Sciences,- Dr. Samuel George Morton,- his magnifcent Collection of Human Crania, recently increased by the receipt of 67 skulls from various so…
GMN 8829 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11007
1857 WILLIAMSON, George (1818 – 1865)
Observations on the human crania contained in the Museum of the Army Medical Department, Fort Pitt, Chatham.
Reprinted from the Dublin Quarterly Journal of Medical Science, May and August, 1857. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12568
1858 MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865); MOTT, Alexander Brown (1826 – 1889)
Catalogue of the surgical and pathological museum of Valentine Mott and of his son Alexander B. Mott.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11302 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13500
1859 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
Descriptive catalogue of the specimens of natural history in spirit contained in the museum Vertebrata: Pisces, Reptilia, Aves, Mammalia.
Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 13861 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16151
1862 CLARK, William (1788 – 1869); CLARK, John Willis (1833 – 1910)
Catalogue of the osteological portion of specimens contained in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Cambridge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7621 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9793
1862 OWEN, Sir Richard (1804 – 1892)
On the extent and aims of a national museum of natural history.
Owen was the prime mover behind the construction of the Natural History Museum, a project that occupied him for over two decades. His On the Extent and Aims of a National Museum of Natural History, containing the text…
GMN 14045 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16353
1863 JORDAN, Henry J.; BECK, Samuel
Catalogue of the New-York Museum of Anatomy No. 618 Broadway, New-York. Principals: Drs. Jordan & Beck No. 40 Bond Street. Open daily, for gentlemn only, from 10 A.M. till 10 P. M. Admission, 25 cents.
30-page catalogue of a commercial medical museum "for gentlemen only" and clearly operated as an advertisement for Jordan and Beck's medical practice. A great deal of the displayed material was intended to be titillat…
GMN 11318 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13516
1865 VROLIK, Willem (1801 – 1863); VROLIK, Gerardus (1775 – 1859); DUSSEAU, J. L.
Musée Vrolik. Catalogue de la collection d'anatomie humaine, comparée et pathologique de M.M. Ger. et W. Vrolik. par J. L. Dusseau.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 11300 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13497
c. 1865 JORDAN, Louis J.
Hand-book & descriptive catalogue of the Pacific Museum of Anatomy and Natural Science, now open at the Eureka Theatre, Montgomery St., between California and Pine, San Francisco.
A commercial medical and "natural science" museum operated by Jordan. This may have been the earliest commercial medical museum in California. Pages 50 onward describe what Jordan called the "Pathological Room, For re…
GMN 11316 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13514
1865 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)
Das vergleichend-anatomische Museum an der Wiener medicinischen Facultät im Jubiläumsjahre 1865. Nebst einem Anhang: Catalog der, in der Privatsammlung des herausgebers befindlichen Skelete, Gehörorgane, und mikroskopischen Injections-Präparate.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 13848 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16138
1866 WOODHULL, Alfred Alexander (1837 – 1921)
Catalogue of the surgical section of the United States Army Medical Museum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10375 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12567
1866 OGLE, John William (1824 – 1905); HOLMES, Timothy (1825 – 1907)
Catalogue of the pathological museum of St. George's Hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12570
1867 WOODWARD, Joseph Janvier (1833 – 1884); CURTIS, Edward (1838 – 1912)
Catalogue of the medical and microscopical sections of the United States Army Medical Museum. Catalogue of the medical section... prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General, U.S. Army by Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. J. Woodward. Catalogue of the microscopical section...by Brevet Major Edward Curtis.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12561
1870 JACKSON, John Barnard Swett (1806 – 1879)
A descriptive catalogue of the Warren Anatomical Museum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7601 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9773
1872 LOWNE, Benjamin Thompson (1839 – 1925)
Descriptive catalogue of the teratological series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7831 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10003
1872 FAUDEL, Charles Frédéric (1826 – 1893)
Notice sur le musée d'histoire naturelle de Colmar et aperçu historique sur le musée des Unterlinden en général.
GMN 13901 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16193
1873 HYRTL, Josef (1810 – 1894)
Die Corrosions-Anatomie und ihre Ergebnisse: mit 18 chromolithographirten Tafeln.
Hyrtl significantly enhanced the techniques of corrosion anatomy, a technique of preparing anatomical specimens invented by Frederik Ruysch. He built up a collection unsurpassed in Europe. In this work Hyrtl described…
GMN 425 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9802
1874 PYE-SMITH, Philip Henry
Catalogue of the preparations of comparative anatomy in the Museum of Guy's Hospital.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7498 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9670
1875 PRÂUSCHER, Hermann
Neuer Führer durch das anatomische, pathologische und ethnologische Museum.
GMN 7631 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9803
1877 –1879 DUPUYTREN, Guillaume, Le Baron (1777 – 1835); HOUEL, Charles-Nicolas (1815 – 1881)
Catalogue des pièces du Musée Dupuytren, publié sous les auspices de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. 5 vols. text plus 4 vols. atlas.
Detailed catalogue, illustrated by photography, of the Musée Dupuytren, a museum of gross pathology. When this catalogue was published the museum contained about 6000 items.
GMN 11147 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13344
c. 1877 WOODHEAD, Joseph Thornton
Catalogue or guide to the Liverpool Museum of Anatomy, 29, Paradise Street. This superb collection with all the latest additions, comprising upwards of 1000 models and diagrams, procured at the anatomical galleries of Paris, Florence, and Munich. Now forms the largest collection of anatomical preparations in England, with one exception only, namely of the Royal College of Surgeons’ Museum....
The dating and contents of this pamphlet are discussed in Hoolihan, An annotated catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American popular medicine & health reform S-741.1.
GMN 11886 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14090
1879 –1891 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); FLOWER, William Henry (1831 – 1899); SHARPE, Richard Bowdler (1847 – 1909)
Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology and dentition of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 3 vols.: Part 1. Man: Homo sapiens.... Part II: Class Mammalia, other than man... Part III: Class Aves.
Parts 1 and 2 by Flower; part 3 by Sharpe. Digital facsimile of Part 1 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link, of Part 2 at this link, and Part 3 at this link.
GMN 7591 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9763
1880 WOOD, James Rushmore (1813 – 1882)
Catalogue of the "Wood" Museum of Bellevue Hospital, New York City. Comprising a descriptive and classified list of anatomical and pathological specimens.
Described 224 specimens in 26 categories. The museum was colected by James Rushmore Wood.
GMN 11291 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13488
1881 MCCONNELL, James Frederick Parry (1848 – 1896)
Catalogue of the Pathological Museum, Medical College, Calcutta.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10374 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12566
1881 ORFILA, Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure (1787 – 1853); HOUEL, Charles-Nicolas (1815 – 1881)
Catalogue du Musée Orfila publié sour les auspices de la Faculté de Médecine de Paris.
Digital facsimile from BnFgallica at this link.
GMN 11145 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13342
1882 QUATREFAGES DE BRÉAU, Jean Louis Armand de (1810 – 1892); HAMY, Ernest Théodore Jules (1842 – 1908)
Crania ethnica. Les crânes des races humaines décrits et figurés d 'après les collections du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris, de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris et les principales collections de la France et de l'étranger par A. de Quatrefages et Ernest T. Hamy: Ouvrage accompagné de planches lithographiées d'après nature par H. Formant et illustré de nombreuses figures intercalées. 2 vols.
Digital facsimile from the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.
GMN 203.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3584
1888 BILLINGS, John Shaw (1838 – 1913)
Medical museums, with special reference to the Army Medical Museum at Washington. The president's address delivered before the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, September 20, 1888.
An historical and comparative study promoting the value of medical museums. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 9754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11942
1891 CLARKE, James Jackson (1860 – 1940)
Descriptive catalogue of the Pathological Museum of St. Mary's Hospital.
Based on manuscript catalogue begun by Charles Murchison in 1855 and continued by subsequent curators, including Dr. Broadbent.--Preface, p. [3. ]Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10365 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12557
1893 MUSÉUM D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE
Centenaire de la fondation de Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 10 juin 1793 - 10 juin 1893. Volume commemoratif publiée par les professeurs du muséum.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9540 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11726
1893 –1903 CATHCART, Charles Walker (1853 – 1932); SHENNAN, Theodore
Descriptive catalogue of the anatomical and pathological specimens in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. 3 Vols. Vols. 1 & 2 by Charles W. Cathcart; Vol. 3 by Theodore Shennan. Vol. 1.- The skeleton and organs of motion.
Digital facsimile of vol. 1 from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.
GMN 10367 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12559
