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 (surgeon, born 1778)|John Collins Warren] when he 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, and the skull of Phineas Gage, who survived a large iron bar being driven through his brain.