Enlarge Descriptive Card Log Book Entry (none)
Rodin Number: none
E Number: none
Donor: Osler
Date: 1877
Size (H x W cm): 11.5 x 6
The specimen shows a 3 cm fossa ovalis in a partially preserved atrial septum. Although it is markedly thinned, it is intact and bulges into an atrial cavity ((B) presumably the right side).
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Comment
The specimen was included in the McGill Abbott Cardiovascular Collection (No 80). There is no record of it in the Museum log book. Its descriptive card indicated that it came from one of Osler’s 1877 Montreal General Hospital autopsies. The label stuck on the back of the specimen (A) is one of the few remaining in the Museum collection and the only one in which there is specific reference to Osler.