Browse Collections (148 total)

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

The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation (formerly the Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine) was formed in 1998 as result of a…

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

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

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

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.…

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

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…

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

Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846), Hersey Professor of Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School, introduced vaccination against smallpox…

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…

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

Robert Battey Greenough was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1871. He graduated from Harvard College in 1893 and recieved his MD from Harvard…

Please be aware that the following collection contains graphic images of wounds.

William Alfred Burgess was born in 1924. Burgess was the sole industrial hygenist at the General Electric facility near Boston during the 1950s. In…

Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM is a digital exhibit, oral history…

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

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

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…

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

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

This collection includes items from the Sven Paulin papers, 1955-2014 (bulk), H MS c443. The biographical note scope and content, and extent relate to…

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

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…

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

Samuel Abbott Green was born in Groton, Massachusetts, on March 16, 1830. His father, Joshua Green, was a physician. His mother, Eliza Lawrence Green,…

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

William Lambert Richardson was born in Boston on September 6, 1842, to Jeffrey Richardson (1789-1879) and Julia Lambert (Brackett) Richardson…

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…

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…

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…

Wolbach, S. Burt (Simeon Burt), 1800-1954, M.D. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, 1903; was Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy at…

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…