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Carnegie Human Embryo Collection Becoming a Science Franklin P. Mall Exceptional Scientist Staging Expansion New Direction Molecular New Era |
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Franklin Payne Mall |
After earning his medical degree at
the University of Michigan in 1883, Franklin Paine Mall traveled to Germany
for clinical training. There, he met His and other eminent biologists, and
became convinced of the need to study human embryology. In 1887, at His's
urging, he began amassing a collection of human embryos, all of them
products of miscarriages and abortions. A few years later, when he started a
new position in the anatomy department of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
in Baltimore, Maryland, he had in hand hundreds of specimens. (Over his
lifetime he would gather a total of about 2,000.)
Like His, Mall was a fervent believer in the need for an institute of human embryology. The purpose of such an institute, he wrote in the May 1913 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) would be to formulate and solve basic problems in the field. "Only in this way," he continued, "can we hope to secure a complete embryologic and scientific basis for human anatomy, which it is being recognized, is in a chaotic state." |