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 –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 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
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
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 –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
1893 WALES, Philip Skinner (1837 – 1906)
Catalogue of the exhibits in the Museum of Hygiene. Medical Department of the United States Navy.
GMN 10717 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12911
1896 HOLMES, Edward Morrell (1843 – 1930)
Catalogue of the medicinal plants in the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10382 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12574
1900 TEACHER, John Hammond (1869 – 1930); HUNTER, William (1718 – 1783)
Catalogue of the anatomical and pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7588 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9760
1904 HORTON-SMITH HARTLEY, Sir Percival (1867 – 1952); MULLINGS, William Thomas (1875 – 1949)
A descriptive catalogue of pathological specimens in the museum of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, Brompton.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 7652 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9824
1907 –1951 WARTHIN, Aldred Scott (1866 – 1931); ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940)
Bulletin of the International Association of Medical Museums, Vols. 1-32. Edited by Maude E. Abbott, Alfred Scott Warthin, and others.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 11297 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13494
1909 TURNER, Sir William (1832 – 1916)
Catalogue of the specimens in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh. Vol. 1.- Pathology. Edited by Sir William Turner.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10368 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12560
1910 KEITH, Sir Arthur (1866 – 1955)
Illustrated guide to the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons.
Vistor's guide to the museum, including the collections formed by John Hunter, when it was intact, before the destruction it suffered in World War II. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10364 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12556
1913 WELLCOME, Henry Solomon Sir (1853 – 1936)
Handbook of the Historical Medical Museum. Organised by Henry S. Wellcome.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 8553 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10730
1915 ABBOTT, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869 – 1940); GRÜNER, Oskar Cameron (1877 – 1972)
Descriptive catalogue of the medical museum of McGill University: Arranged on a modified decimal system of museum classification. Part IV: Section 1. The Haemopoietic organs.
All published
GMN 7638 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9810
1929 DAUKES, Sidney Herbert (1879 – 1947)
The medical museum: Modern developments, organisation and technical methods based on a new system of visual teaching.
GMN 7634 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9806
1936 ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF EDINBURGH
Catalogue of the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Part I. Comprehending the preparations illustrative of pathology.
"The letters B.C. ... signify that the preparation is part of an extensive collection purchased by the College from Sir Charles Bell...." Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 10704 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12897
1962 MARSHALL, Alice J.; BURTON, John Adam Gib (1888 – 1962)
Catalogue of the pathological preparations of Dr. William Hunter, Sir William Macewen, Prof. John H. Teacher and Prof. J.A.G. Burton in the museum of the Pathology Dept., Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
GMN 7589 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9761
1964 HENRY, Robert S.
The Armed Forces Institute of Pathology: Its first century.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10453 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12646
1966 –1972 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)
Descriptive catalogue of the pathological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England: A selection of surviving specimens illustrating [John] Hunter's opinions on the nature of diseases, experiments and observations on cases in surgery. 2 vols.
GMN 7500 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9672
1970 –1971 HUNTER, John (1728 – 1793); DOBSON, Jessie (1906 – 1984)
Descriptive catalogue of the physiological series in the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2 vols.
Part 1: Surviving Hunterian specimens demonstrating those organs in plants and animals for the special purposes of the individual. Part 2: Hunterian specimens demonstrating the products of generation together with sur…
GMN 7550 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9722
