From bones to hacksaws, Harvard artifacts to go online

For years, Harvard Medical School has stored some of its most treasured -- and gruesome -- artifacts in a secret disaster-proof facility somewhere near Boston. The school's extensive collection includes surgical kits from the 18th and 19th century, before anesthesia; the partial skull of a child who was killed by the Boston Belfry Murderer, aka the Boston Bat, a 19th-century ... (Full article: 647 words)

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