Cataloging and Conservation of the Stanford-Meyer Osteopathology Collection

圣地亚哥人类博物馆将完成斯坦福-迈耶骨病理学收集的人类骨骼遗骸的编目和保存。美国国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）为这些材料的整理提供了前期支持。该收藏包括展示疾病、创伤和形态变化的人类骨骼标本，包括来自1500多个个体的近3500个标本。它是在本世纪初由斯坦福大学的医学博士亚瑟·w·迈耶发明的，尤其重要的是它早于抗生素的引入。因此，材料包括在当今人群中罕见的疾病的证据。一名骨学家/古病理学家和一名法医人类学家将协助对这些材料进行编目和保护。将对集合的其余部分和选择用于集合管理的数据库进行描述。对混杂标本进行分类，对易碎标本进行保护。这些参考资料非常重要，因为它们来自已知的个人，其中许多人有广泛的医疗记录。因此，控制是优秀的。这些标本可以用于教学和研究目的，并作为分析旧材料的起点。由于骨骼系统为个体所受的疾病和伤害提供了相当永久的记录，因此，通过对这些标本的研究，有可能检查诸如营养、拥挤和个体生命中不同年龄阶段的疾病等变量对生长、发育、和发病率。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.