Browse Collections (148 total)

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Records of the Fleischner Society.

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

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

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

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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…

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