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Two large curved gouges
Two curved metal gouges with thick handles
Twenty-first Annual Report of the Boston Medical Library
Edwin H. Brigham (1840-1926), the assistant librarian of the second Boston Medical Library, here announces the initial deposit of the medical books of the Athenaeum. Additions deposits, large and small, were made over the next twenty years, with…
Twenty microscope slides with tissue
Twenty microscope slides with tissue, displaying various stain colors. Each slide labeled in printed text "Pathology Dept. / Children's Hospital / Medical Center / Boston, Mass." Stored in heavy cardboard double-hinged mailer.
Twenty microscope slides with tissue
Twenty microscope slides with tissue, displaying various stain colors. Each slide labeled in printed text "Pathology Dept. / Children's Hospital / Medical Center / Boston, Mass." Stored in heavy cardboard double-hinged mailer.
Twelve Boston physicians and their composite portrait
Dr. H. P. Bowditch took photographs of himself and eleven colleagues—all members of a physician’s dining club, the Kappa Pi Eta—in 1887 and again in 1892 and then devised a composite portrait of all twelve to isolate the common…
Turnkey from New Hampshire
This key instrument was carried to a town in New Hampshire when it was settled 100 years ago as part of the necessary articles to have for use in a new country . The donor received it from the descendents of the owner.
Turnkey and Elevator
The turnkey (for extracting teeth) and the elevator (for extracting roots) were essential early dental instruments. These were used by Dr. George Brewster of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
In "The Claims of Dentistry," an address at the 1872…
Tumors among the Chinese
Many of the patients treated at the Ophthalmic Hospital in Canton by Peter Parker in the 1830s were immortalized in large color portraits produced by the artist Lam Qua (1801-1860). This album contains rare watercolor studies for a number of the Lam…
Trough gouge
Metal gouge with thin rectangular trough and thick handle. There is a round metal label with "Trough Gouge" handwritten in black ink.
Troops walk in a parade in Paris for President Wilson
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France, as well as the presidential visit to Alsace and Lorraine and President Wilson in Paris.
Troops set out for Eparges
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Troops on the ship home from WWI
From box labeled "Camier / World War I. VHK.", which includes a few images of Camiers and of soldiers on the boat coming home from the war, and many images of staff at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Troops lounging on the ship home from WWI
"GOOD Camiers ck" written on slip of paper inside box. Pictures of Camiers and soldiers on the boat coming home from the war.
Troops in the trenches
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Troops in the trenches
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Troops coming home from WWI
"GOOD Camiers ck" written on slip of paper inside box. Pictures of Camiers and soldiers on the boat coming home from the war.
Troops coming home from WWI
"GOOD Camiers ck" written on slip of paper inside box. Pictures of Camiers and soldiers on the boat coming home from the war.
Trials of a public benefactor, as illustrated in the discovery of etherization
Commissioned by William T. G. Morton, Trials of a public benefactor attempts to provide support for his claim to precedence in the discovery of ether anesthesia. Here, as part of the story, Oliver Wendell Holmes coins the term in a letter to Morton…
Trial of William Bushnell and others for practicing homœopathy
Issued for the "examination and consideration of the Fellows of the Massachusetts Medical Society," this pamphlet outlines the charges and defense of the eight homeopathic practitioners who were threatened with expulsion. This particular copy is…
Trial of Professor John W. Webster for the Murder of Doctor George Parkman
While few early photographs exist of the Harvard Medical School building on North Grove Street, considerable information about the structure and its interior can be found, ironically, in the published transcripts of the 1850 murder trial of John W.…
Trenches in Dampierre
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Trench near tree line
From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.
Tremont Street Medical School Prospectus
Holmes was one of the founders and faculty members of the Tremont Street Medical School; he offered courses in anatomy, physiology, and, as attested by this prospectus for the 1848 course, regular instruction in microscopic anatomy, and was one of…
Tree-top watch posts in Argonne
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Traveling homeopathic pharmaceutical kit
Inscription inside reads: "This medicine case is one of the articles which belonged to the late 1st Lieut. Alfred R. Glover, who was killed in battle, June 14th, 1863, at Port Hudson, La., and was afterward returned to his home."
Transverse section of muscle tissue, magnified ten times
Microscope slide exhibiting a transverse section of human muscle tissue, stained and mounted by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Tissue is magnified ten times.
Transporting the wounded in Champagne
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Traite ou reflexions tirees de la pratique sur les playes d'armes a feu
Although the Countway's collections have long held copies of the second (1740) and also the 1748 and 1759 editions of Le Dran's famous treatise on gunshot wounds and military surgery, as well as the first English translation from 1743, this fine copy…
Traite d'Accouchemens de Maladies des Femmes
A fine specimen of the Boston Medical Library's bookplate is affixed to the cover of this set of C. M. Gardien's text on gynecology and pediatrics. The four volumes were never rebound, and the spine bears a label with the number 385—one of the only…
Train station
From box labeled "Algeria," containing images of Kazanjian and his family on vacation in Algeria and Switzerland.
Town street, with cathedral behind
From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.
Town in a valley
From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
Tower among ruins in Ypres
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
Tourniquet, invented during the American Civil War for the personal use of soldiers
This tourniquet was invented during the American Civil War for the personal use of soldiers. Large numbers of these tourniquets were manufactured and supplied to the war's participants.
Inscription: "Lambert S. JANY 7 1869"
Inscription: "Lambert S. JANY 7 1869"
To Whom Nothing Human Has Been Foreign
This article was written about Dr. Bibring as she retired from Harvard Medical School, and highlights her fundamental belief of understanding humans as both physical and social creatures.
To the eleven ladies who presented a loving cup to me
Holmes responded to the gift of the cup with a poem, “To the eleven ladies who presented me with a loving cup.” The poem was first printed privately, in just twelve copies; each was signed by Holmes and copies sent to his eleven admirers.…
Title-page of The Two-fold Slavery of the United States (1854)
Title-page of The two-fold slavery of the United States.
Title-page of the Sixteenth annual catalogue and report of the New-England Female Medical College
Title-page of the sixteenth annual catalogue of the New England Female Medical College.
Title-page of Negroes and Negro slavery : the first an inferior race: the latter its normal condition by J. H. Van Evrie.
Historical justification for slavery.
Title-page of Inside View of Slavery (1855)
Title-page of Inside View of Slavery (1855).
Title-page of A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery (1817)
Title-page of A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery (1817).
Title page to An essay on the more common West-India diseases (1764)
Title page to An essay on the more common West-India diseases (1764)
Title page of The speech of the right honourable William Pitt, on a motion for the abolition of the slave trade, in the House of Commons, on Monday the second of April, 1792.
Speech of William Pitt on the abolition of slavery in England.
Title page of Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York by Christopher C. Yates.
Title-page of Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York by Christopher C. Yates.
Title page of 1954 JAMA Spinal Anesthesia Article
Title page of the December 18, 1954 Journal of the American Medical Association article by Robert D. Dripps, M.D and Leroy D. Vandam, M.D. "Long-Term Follow-up of Patients Who Received 10,098 Spinal Anesthetics. Failure To Discover Major Neurological…
Timeline of silicone rubber research
Dr. Folkman and Dr. David Long patented their silicone research and Folkman gave the patent to the Population Council. Folkman and Long's research is the basis of the long-term contraceptive, Norplant.
Ticket of Admission to the Demonstrative Course of Eighteen Lectures on Phrenology
This ticket is inserted at the flyleaf of a copy of the third American edition of Spurzheim’s treatise, Phrenology, or the Doctrine of the Mental Phenomena (Boston: Marsh, Capen and Lyon, 1834) and was issued for his popular course of lectures…
Ticket granting privileges to the Marine Hospital at Charlestown, with engraving
Paper ticket granting medical privileges to the Marine Hospital at Charlestown by "The Physician of the Marine Hospital, Charlestown." Ticket adorned with rust-orange engraving that depicts the hospital and a vessel off-loading a wounded sailor. The…
Tichborne Romance and Orton Reality
The Oliver Criminological Collection includes a substantial array of pamphlets, trial accounts, and popular ephemera from the sensational Tichborne Claimant case of the 1870s.
Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger…
Tichborne Justices
The Oliver Criminological Collection includes a substantial array of pamphlets, trial accounts, and popular ephemera from the sensational Tichborne Claimant case of the 1870s.
Orton, a butcher in Wagga Wagga, Australia, claimed to be Sir Roger…
Three nurses
From a box of 25 lantern slides from Harvey Cushing's service with U. S. Army Base Hospital, number 5. Made by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts.
Three men looking off the side of the ship
From a box of 25 lantern slides from Harvey Cushing's service with U. S. Army Base Hospital, number 5. Made by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Massachusetts.
Three men in front of brick building
From a set of two boxes of lantern slides by Dr. Robert Battey Greenough, covering his service in 1915 with the First Harvard Unit and the American Ambulance in France during World War I.
Thoughts of other days
First line: In sadness do I now look back. At end of text: Jno. W. Brady.
Thoracic vertebra with cut-mark
Vertebra of a 25 year old man who was stabbed in the middle of the right side of the neck with a broad and sharp knife, and was treated at Massachusetts General Hospital, arriving approximately an hour after the injury, pale and with a diminished…
Thomson's patent for Elijah Trescott
Many copies of the New guide to health and the Thomsonian materia medica contain, as does this one, certificates attesting to the holder's right to use Thomsonian preparations as a member of the Friendly Botanic Society. By 1840, Samuel Thomson had…
Thomas Fillebrown
Dr. Thomas Fillebrown (1836-1908) was a member of the first class to graduate from the Harvard Dental School and later held the professorship of Operative Dentistry and Oral Surgery. He was an ardent supporter of the Dental Museum and donated many…
Theatre of anatomy
Hand-colored aquatint of the anatomical theatre at the University of Cambridge, drawn by A[ugustus Charles] Pugin and engraved by J. D. Stadler. Taken from William Combe's A history of the University of Cambridge, its colleges, halls, and public…
The wounded arrive in peasant carts
From box labeled "V.H.K. Battlefields" showing images of battles, soldiers, and wreckage throughout France.
The Vanguard : First in France (May 1918)
A monthly newsletter from the personnel of Base Hospital No. 5--the first publication from the American Expeditionary Forces--began to appear in November 1917. The issue displayed commemorates a year's anniversary since the departure for France and…
The Vanguard : First in France
A monthly newsletter from the personnel of Base Hospital No. 5--the first publication from the American Expeditionary Forces--began to appear in November 1917. The issue displayed commemorates a year's anniversary since the departure for France and…
The truth and the removal
The truth and the removal is Charles Guiteau’s autobiographical defense of his assassination of James A. Garfield and an account of his own trial, written while he was in prison and awaiting execution. This is Guiteau’s own copy, and it…
The tree of Bitry
From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.
The Toothache or Torment and Torture
Rowlandson comments on dentistry in this work, suggesting that treatment in the days before anesthesia was as painful as the ailment.