Cataloging and Conservation of the Stanford-Meyer Osteopathology Collection

圣地亚哥人类博物馆将完成斯坦福-迈耶骨病理学人类骨骼遗骸收藏的编目和保护工作。此前，国家科学基金会已经为这些材料的整理提供了支持。该收藏包括表现出疾病、创伤和形态变异的人类骨骼标本，包括来自1,500多个个体的近3,500个标本。它是由斯坦福大学医学博士亚瑟·W·迈耶在本世纪初制造的，它特别重要，因为它早于抗生素的引入。因此，材料包括了当今人口中罕见的疾病的证据。一名骨科医生/古病理学家和一名法医人类学家将协助编目和保存这些材料。将对馆藏的其余部分和选定用于馆藏管理的数据库进行说明。混合在一起的标本将被分类，脆弱的标本将被保存。这些参考材料极其重要，因为它们来自已知的个人，其中许多人拥有广泛的医疗记录。因此，控制是非常好的。这些标本既可用于教学，也可用于研究，并可作为分析较旧材料的起点。由于骨骼系统提供了对个人疾病和侮辱的相当永久的记录，通过对这些标本的研究，可以考察个人生活中不同年龄的营养、拥挤和疾病等变量对生长、发育和发病率等相关因素的影响。这项研究很重要，因为它可以帮助我们了解人类生长发育的正常过程以及特定疾病的影响。

The San Diego Museum of Man will complete the cataloging and conservation of the Stanford-Meyer Osteopathology Collection of human skeletal remains. Prior support for curation of these materials has been provided by the National Science Foundation. The collection consists of human skeletal specimens exhibiting disease, trauma, and morphological variation and includes nearly 3,500 specimens from more than 1,500 individuals. It was made in the early part of this century by Arthur W. Meyer, M.D., of Stanford University and is especially important because it predates the introduction of antibiotics. Therefore, materials include evidence of diseases which are rare in present day populations. An osteologist/paleopathologist and a forensic anthropologist will assist in the cataloging and conservation of the materials. Descriptions will be made of the remaining parts of the collection and databases selected for collections management. Co-mingled specimens will be sorted and fragile specimens conserved. These reference materials are extremely important because they derive from known individuals, many with extensive medical records. Therefore, control is excellent. The specimens can be used for both teaching and research purposes and serve as a starting point for the analysis of older materials. Because the skeletal system provides a fairly permanent record of the diseases and insults to an individual, through the study of such specimens, it is possible to examine the effects of such variables as nutrition, crowding, and disease at different ages in an individual's life on such dependent factors as growth, development, and morbidity. This research is important because it can help us understand the normal processes of human growth and development as well as the effects of specific diseases.