My human skull:
In the fall of 1969 I was accepted
at Loyola University of Chicago, a private Catholic
school. During the first week of registering and orientation
I happened upon an ad in the
“American Journal of Dentistry”
that offered a human a skull for dental anatomy. The
cost was 400, a lot of money in 1959.
It turned out to be worth every cent. The individual
that was in the skull died in the Vietnam
War, which was going on at that time. It
was
mailed to me out of the Philippines from Manila.
The
cost was $400. All the flesh had been removed and only a shellac skull with
hinges
openings, liitle doors in to sinuses,
springs for jaw movement, dowels to lift half of the brain
case. The skull was perfect for I to practice
giving shots, red and blue treads ran where
blood vessels would go, yellow was the
main nerves. I used the skull through the next four
years of school. I would practice giving in
shot, n, landmarks for dentures, studying for tests
and so on.
It is with a great relief that I am finally
able to tell this story and get if off my chest as
the skull and the nice little box it
came in are illegal to own.
