Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 177

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
Mosher, Dr. Harris Peyton (1867-1954)
Photographs Demonstrating Cranial Dissection Techniques. Including twenty albumen photographs of decapitated heads in various stages of dissection, the images varying in size and mounted on uniform period mats, approximately fourteen with contemporary explantory ink captions, some with Mosher's name as well, 14 x 11 in.

Dr. Mosher made important contributions to the field of otolaryngology. He was graduated from Harvard Medical School, and later taught at the school's Department of Anatomy. There he pioneered and designed a dynamic program of dissection of the head and sinus anatomy. "Mosher's Course" was part of the curriculum for thirty-five years.