 The curator was tasked with keeping a catalog and a case history of each specimen in the cabinet . Jackson published two descriptions of the collection in 1847 : A Descriptive Catalogue of the Anatomical Museum of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement , and later that year A Descriptive Catalogue of the Monstrosities in the Cabinet of the Boston Society of Medical Improvement , which focused solely on the anatomical oddities from the cabinet . Both books were abridged versions of the complete catalog . In the first volume , the specimens of the cabinet were divided into fifteen sections : healthy bones , diseased bones , soft parts about the bones , heart and blood vessels , organs of sense , vocal and respiratory organs , alimentary canal , organs accessory to the alimentary canal , urinary organs , female organs of generation , male organs of generation , utero @-@ gestation , monstrosities , and parasites . 
