Capen, born in Canton, Mass., began to study medicine at age 18; however, ill health prevented completion of his apprenticeship and in 1825 he entered…
The Clarence J. Gamble Archive in the Countway Library of Harvard Medical School is a major collection of correspondence and related materials devoted…
Most of the papers are letters from Holmes to various colleagues, concerning mainly medical topics and people. Subjects include treatment by bleeding,…
Robert Latou Dickinson, 1861-1950, MD, 1882, Long Island College Hospital, was a gynecologist and obstetrician at Brooklyn Hospital and also taught at…
Chadwick (Harvard, M.D. 1871) assisted in the foundation of the gynecological department of the Boston City Hospital in 1874, taught gynecology at the…
Maxwell Finland (1902-1987), SB cum laude, 1922, Harvard College; MD, 1926, Harvard Medical School, was George Richards Minot Professor of Medicine at…
The Varaztad H. Kazanjian Archive was donated by the Kazanjian Family to the National Archives of Plastic Surgery, Center for the History of Medicine,…
Research chemist Edwin Newton Ohl (Harvard A.B. 1923, Ph.D., 1930) began to collect rare historical works in early science and chemistry after the end…
John Rathbone Oliver (1872-1943), Harvard graduate, priest, classical scholar, and physician specializing in psychiatry, was the Chief Medical Officer…
Himes (1899-1949) (Harvard, Ph.D. 1932) was a teacher-scholar in the field of sociology and economics. He taught at Colgate University (1932-1942) and…
Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard, A.B. 1896; A.M. 1897; M.D. 1900; Honorary Sc.D. 1937) taught physiology at Harvard and was George Higginson Professor…