The Center for the History of Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan SPH Archives

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Joseph Milic-Emili and Vlad Fencl measuring breathing with a plethysmograph, 1962.

The Center for the History of Medicine enables the history of medicine to inform contemporary medicine and deepens our understanding of the society in which medicine is embedded.

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HSPH researcher Eleanor Gatz breathing into a spirometer to test the effect of an irritant gas on the lungs, undated.

In 2014, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health funded a full time Archivist position with the purpose of documenting the school’s history and making it accessible to a broad audience. This exhibit is part of the Center’s developing progress to capture and make accessible significant historical moments in the field of public health.

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Faculty from the Department of Physiology using the plethysmograph for research on the 3rd floor of Building I, circa 1960.

The Center for the History of Medicine and the Harvard T.H. Chan SPH Archives