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Albright (Harvard, M.D. 1924), endocrinologist, taught medicine at Harvard Medical School and was a physician at Massachusetts General Hospital from…

Allen Hanson Blake (1881-1941), M.D., 1904, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, worked as a doctor in the Panama Canal Zone and was on the…

The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) was organized as the Roentgen Society of the United States in 1900, in St. Louis, Missouri. It was the first…

The collection reflects the activities and development of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) over the course of the 20th…

Selected items from manuscript collections processed under the auspices of the Archives for Women in Medicine initiative.

Artwork and artifacts from the collections of the Boston Medical Library and the Harvard Medical Library.

Mary Ellen Avery (1927-), A.B., 1948, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts; M.D., 1952, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore,…

Benjamin Joy Jeffries, known as B. Joy Jeffries, was born in Boston on March 26, 1833. His father, John Jeffries (1796-1876) was a physician and his…

Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991), A.B., 1923, University of Kansas; M.A., 1925, University of Kansas; Ph.D., 1932, Yale University; M.D., 1934, Yale…

Edward Bibring, 1894-1959, M.D., 1922, Vienna Medical School; was a psychoanalyst, a close associate and advocate of Sigmund Freud, and a researcher…

Grete L. Bibring, (1899-1977), noted psychoanalyst, was one of the members of the "second generation" of Freudian Scholars, and played a leading role…

Rare books and journals from the collections of the Boston Medical Library.

The Boston Phrenological Society was formed in 1832 after the death of the prominent phrenologist Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832). The society was…

Contains mostly letters addressed to Bowditch and some drafts of his outgoing letters; and also a considerable amount of family correspondence. Other…

T. (Thomas) Berry Brazelton (1918- ), pediatrician and author, is the founder and former director of the Child Development Unit at Children’s…

Canavan (Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, M.D., 1905) was a pathologist at Boston State Hospital, and at several medical schools. She was…

Bradford Cannon (b. 1907) SB, 1929, Harvard College; MD, 1933, Harvard Medical School, was a plastic surgeon and Clinical Professor of Surgery at…

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…

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…

Chadwick (Harvard, M.D. 1871) assisted in the foundation of the gynecological department of the Boston City Hospital in 1874, taught gynecology at the…

Dr. Georg Adolph Christian Deetjen (1863-1940), was a graduate of the University of Würzburg where he attended lectures delivered by Wilhelm Konrad…

Dawes was the first child analyst and child psychiatrist at Children's Hospital, Boston. She studied in Vienna from 1932-36, and completed her…

Robert Latou Dickinson (1861-1950) was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on 21 February 1861, to Horace Dickinson and Jeannette Latou. He grew up in…

Robert Latou Dickinson, 1861-1950, MD, 1882, Long Island College Hospital, was a gynecologist and obstetrician at Brooklyn Hospital and also taught at…

Thomas Dwight was born to Thomas Dwight and Mary Collins Warren in 1843. Dwight’s father converted to Catholicism late in life, and Dwight and his…

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…

Carola Eisenberg (born 1917), B.A., 1933, Liceo Nacional De Senoritas, Buenos Aires, Argentina; M.A., 1935, School of Psychiatric Social Work,…

Finding aids and inventories for Center for the History of Medicine archives and manuscript collections.

Maxwell Finland (1902-1987), SB cum laude, 1922, Harvard College; MD, 1926, Harvard Medical School, was George Richards Minot Professor of Medicine at…

Records of the Fleischner Society.

Anne Pappenheimer Forbes (1911-1992) was Clinical Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General…

Consists of filled out cards of admission to lectures on surgery, chemistry, anatomy, obstetrics, etc., at Harvard Medical School, other medical…

Frederick Cheever Shattuck was born on November 1, 1847, in Boston, Massachusetts. He came from a long line of doctors, including his father, George…

After resigning his professorship of anatomy and physiology at Heidelberg due to deteriorating eyesight, Friedrich Tiedemann (1781-1861) sold his…

The Clarence J. Gamble Archive in the Countway Library of Harvard Medical School is a major collection of correspondence and related materials devoted…

Papers pertain mostly to Gay's work on committees of the Massachusetts Medical Society, his reports concerning Wrentham State School residents, and…

In the 1920s, New England heiress Frances Glessner Lee (d. 1962) became fascinated with the colorful crime-solving career of George Burgess Magrath…

George Thomas Perkins was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1838. He received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1858. He also attended Johns…

Alan Frank Guttmacher, (1898-1974), was President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1962 to 1974. His research focused on women's…

H. R. (Richard) Tyler (born 1927), A.B., Syracuse University, New York; B.S., M.D., 1951, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis,…

Dwight Emary Harken (1910-1993), A.B., 1931, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; M.D., 1936, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,…

Rare books and journals from the collections of the Harvard Medical Library

Images in this finding aid are organized into 7 subseries by building; within each subseries similar photographs are organized into image groups.…

The Harvard Medical School Clubs and Associations Photographs, 1855-1977, is a series from an artificial collection assembled in the 1960s from the…

Contains formal individual and group portraits, and candids of faculty and staff members of Harvard Medical School. Image types include photographs,…

Contains formal individual and group portraits, and candids of faculty and staff members of Harvard Medical School. Image types include photographs,…

The Office of Student Affairs at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, promotes and assists in the educational and professional growth and…

The records of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine are the product of the administrative activities of the Deans of Harvard Medical…

The Harvard Portrait Collection began in 1680 with a payment to Major Thomas Smith (the artist) for "drawing Dr. Ames effigies pr Order of…

This series consists of graphics, illustrations, photographs and other materials used in publications or maintained for possible inclusion in upcoming…

Cushing (Harvard, M.D. 1895) was Mosely Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in…

Consists of autographed letters, mostly from eminent 19th century scientists, which were collected by Lloyd E. Hawes. The largest number of letters…

Elizabeth D. Hay (1927-2007), B.A., 1948, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; M.D., 1952, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland,…

Henry Jacob Bigelow was born 11 March 1818, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, Jacob Bigelow (1787-1879), was a well-known medical practitioner in…

Hertig (Harvard, M.D. 1930) was Shattuck Professor of Pathological Surgery at Harvard Medical School from 1952 to 1970 and chairman of the Department…

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…

Selections from manuscript and archival collections supporting the study of the history of hematology.

Selections from archival and manuscript collections supporting the study of the history of radiology.

Includes several letters from Holmes; an 1890 letter from Annie Fields to Sarah Orne Jewett about Holmes; Holmes' essay on medical education, 1870; a…

Most of the papers are letters from Holmes to various colleagues, concerning mainly medical topics and people. Subjects include treatment by bleeding,…

Contains original outgoing letters of Holmes to various individuals, some identified. Subjects pertain to poetry, family matters, social activities,…

David Hunter Hubel, born 1926, John Franklin Enders University Professor of Neurobiology, Emeritus and Nobel Laureate for Physiology or Medicine…

John Woodford Farlow was born in Boston in 1853 to John Smith Farlow (1817-1890), a prominent Boston merchant, and Nancy Wight (Blanchard) Farlow…

John Collins Warren was born in Boston on May 4, 1842 to Jonathan Mason Warren and Anne Crowninshield Warren. He was educated at Boston Latin School,…

John Rathbone Oliver (1872-1943), Harvard graduate, priest, classical scholar, and physician specializing in psychiatry, was the Chief Medical Officer…

The Varaztad H. Kazanjian Archive was donated by the Kazanjian Family to the National Archives of Plastic Surgery, Center for the History of Medicine,…

In April 1921, Dr. Harris Kennedy (1871-1951) presented the Boston Medical Library with some 2,000 English imprints and dissertations, collected by…

Larrabee (Harvard, M.D. 1897) was a practicing physician in Boston from 1897 until his death, and was also on the staff of the Boston City Hospital.…

Philip Leder (1934- ), M.D., 1964, Harvard Medical School, is an American geneticist. He was born in Washington, D.C. and studied at Harvard…

In addition to her work in public health administration, Dr. Leona Baumgartner (1901-1991) was a noted scholar, bibliophile, and book collector,…

Richard Upjohn Light (1902-1994), B.A., 1924, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; M.D., 1928, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor;…

This collection includes items fromt the Erich Lindemann papers, 1885-1991 (inclusive), 1950-1974 (bulk), H MS c219. The biographical note, scope and…

Lloyd Thornton Brown was born in Worcester, Massachusetts on August 20, 1880, to Edwin and Marianna Brown. He was born with a club foot, which was…

M. Judah Folkman was born on 24 February 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio to Jerome Folkman and Bessie Schomer Folkman. He received his B.A. from Ohio State…

Digitized items from our manuscript and archival collections. For collections processed under the auspices of the Archives for Women in Medicine,…

As part of the bequest of Dr. Jacob James Longacre (1907-1976), a 1932 graduate of Harvard Medical School, the Boston Medical Library received the…

Marius Nygaard Smith-Peterson was born in Norway on November 14, 1886. After coming to the United States with his mother in 1903, he went on to…

The Massachusetts Homeopathic Medical Society was incorporated in 1856; it developed from the Massachusetts Homeopathic Fraternity, organized by six…

The Massachusetts Medical Society was founded in 1781. Early members of the society published its transactions and papers presented at meetings; in…

This is an artificial collection, created by pulling together scans of mendicant literature and ephemera from various Center for the History of…