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Femur, Head, with Necrosis
No full textThe Mütter Museum is one of the very few historical anatomical museums that still occasionally accepts donations of body parts if they are appropriate for the collection. In recent years, staff and their family members have provided several specimens.
One staff member asked his surgeon to preserve the head of his femur (thighbone) removed during hip replacement surgery. The powerful antiretroviral drugs he was taking to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) had disrupted the blood supply to his hip joints, causing painful osteonecrosis—literally “dead bone”—at the ends of the bones. Though osteonecrosis occurs in only about 1% of HIV-positive people, they are at a higher risk for the condition than the general population.
Information on donating human biological specimens to the Mütter Museum can be found at this FAQ.</p
Clinical Uses of Thorazine
No full textPamphlet published by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories listing the clinical uses of Thorazine.Drug dosage calculations are also outlined in this pamphlet.The pamphlet discusses "proper" usages of Thorazine in treating nausea, vomiting, mental disturbances, alcoholism, pain, cancer, hiccups, obstetrics, surgery, pediatrics, asthma, itching, and withdrawal
[Thorazine] In the Treatment of the Mental and Emotional Disturbances of Everyday Practice
No full textPamphlet published by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories describing Thorazine's usefulness in treating depression, anxiety, "senile agitation," and "psychoneurotic states."Includes a detailed bibliography
When Your Patient Says: "I can't stand the pain any longer"
No full textHandbill published by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories describing Thorazine's usefulness in treating patients with unmanagable pain
Thorazine in Pediatrics
No full textPamphlet published by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories describing Thorazine's uses in pediatric medicine.Includes with a short bibliography of cited sources.Includes recommended dosages
Thorazine in Surgery
No full textPamphlet published by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories describing Thorazine's usefulness in surgery, as an anesthetic agent enhancer.Includes a detailed bibliography
Thorazine for Pediatric Use
No full textPamphlet published by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories describing Thorazine's uses in pediatric medicine.Thorazine was said to aid in nausea, anxiety, pain relief, and pediatric surgery.The pamphlet also discussed Thorazine as a method to treat hyperactivity, behavior disorders, and other "mental disturbances."The pamphlet recommends dosages and methods for oral and intramuscular drug administration
Now Council-Accepted Benzedrine Sulfate Spansule
No full textPamphlet published by Smith, Kline & French Laboratories describing their new Benzadrine Sulfate Spansules.The pamphlet includes many X-Rays of patients after having taken Benzadrine via the time released Spansules, and how the drug disperses over time
Harry Eastlack, age 13.
No full textThis collection of images shows Harry Eastlack, who suffered from fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva, at age 13. Eastlack's skeleton was donated to science for researching his condition following his death by pneumonia. It is now on display at the Mütter Museum and continues to serve as a valuable object in the research of fibrodysplasia, being one of the few intact skeletons in the world.Title supplied by cataloge
Lobotomy patient, post-operation and one year later
No full textOne of Walter Freeman’s lobotomy patients just after operation and one year later from Psychosurgery; intelligence, emotion and social behavior following prefrontal lobotomy for mental disorders, by Walter Freeman and James W. Watts.Title supplied by cataloge