Exhibits

As an homage to the Body Worlds exhibit that opened June 6, 2007 at OMSI (Oregon Museum of Science and Industry), we have installed a new display in the University Library: Anatomy at the Bleeding Edge. As usual, the exhibit brings together materials from our historical image, book, archives and museum collections, this time to highlight the history of anatomy and anatomical teaching at OHSU.

Notable items include:

The Bourgery Atlas
Da Vinci drawings
Sketches from the Clarice Ashworth Francone Collection
Images from Vesalius' De humani corporis fabrica, 2nd folio edition, 1955
Images of early anatomy labs at the University of Oregon Medical School

April-May 2007
A Return from Oblivion: Portland's First Neurosurgeon, A.J. McLean

January-March 2007
Hope Blooms Under a Benevolent Moon: Valentine Prichard and The People's Institute

July-September 2006
Manuscript mysteries

Looking for a summer research project? Check out some of history's mysteries from the OHSU History of Medicine Collection: Manuscript books are by nature unique, since each is produced individually by an author, known or unknown, rather than mass produced as printed books are. This small exhibit features five bound manuscripts and one printed book with extensive manuscript annotations. All of these volumes are from the History of Medicine Collection in OHSU Historical Collections & Archives. We welcome interested scholars to take a closer look at any of the books on display.

Works included in the exhibit:

Artznei buch dem menschen zu villen krankheiten : gestellten fur mich zu mall...und mit meiner eigeuen hand und Gottes hillfe geschrieben im jar 1668. [Germany?, 1668]
Manuscript on pharmacology, begun January 12, 1733 / by Johann Conrad Keller. [Germany?, 1733]

Medical prescriptions. [circa 1871-1887]

Manuscript concerning procedures and treatment of diseases / by Thomas Goode. [first half 19th century]

Maladies du bas-ventre. [second half 18th century]

Larisch, E. Kurzes Lehrbuch der Physiologie des Menschen in 20 Vorträgen. Marburg: Erhardt, 1870. (Manuscript annotations)

May-June 2006
Superlatives from the History of Medicine Collection

March-April 2006
Citizens of the Week: Five faculty from the University of Oregon Medical School recognized for their accomplishments in colorful posters.

January-February 2006
Richard Bright's "Reports of medical cases: selected with a view of illustrating the symptoms and cure of diseases by a reference to morbid anatomy," 1827-1831

September-December 2005
Works of Galen, 1542 and 1561-62

May-June 2005
Pharmaceutical Company Art Prints: Advertising "Giveaways"

February-April 2005
Housing the Victims of the Great White Plague: The Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital

Fall 2004
Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature (National Library of Medicine traveling exhibit)

Spring 2004
Bridging a Gap in our Historical Collections: The History of Dentistry Collection

Fall 2003
Colonel Strohm's Nurses

Summer 2003
Medicine and Surgery During the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Winter 2003
Mackenzie's Folly: Marquam Hill: The Beginnings

Summer 2002
Esther Pohl Lovejoy: Pioneer Physician

Winter 2002
Clarice Ashworth Francone

Summer 2001
The Father of Intervention: Charles Theodore Dotter, M.D. 1920-1984

Spring 2001
The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: The Father of Modern Anatomy and His Most Famous Work