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The development of the pill as a non-medical drug had been a controversial and groundbreaking issue. The pill faced a critical backlash from religious, social, political and even medical groups. Rock used the media to deliver his message that the…

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Within anesthesia machines, delivery of the anesthetic to the patient’s airway is the job of the “breathing system” which incorporates a mask or a tracheal tube. Dr. Ralph Waters (1883–1979) introduced this simple device in 1923 designed to prevent…

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The flyleaves and end papers of Bibles were often used to record the births, deaths, and marriages of family members. But this Bible, belonging to the Waterhouse family, was used to record Benjamin Waterhouse's cowpox inoculations of his children,…

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Holmes was born and grew up in the “gambrel-roofed house,” facing Cambridge Common, where the Littauer building now stands. In 1870, he and his brother sold the house to Harvard University and in—to use Holmes’…

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A watercolor illustration that accompanied an 1890 version of Oliver Wendell Holmes' (1809-1894) The autocrat of the breakfast-table

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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.

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The lineal descendant of John Warren and John Collins Warren, John Warren (1874-1928) received a degree from the Medical School in 1900; he became a professor of anatomy at Harvard and was noted for his dissection work. During the last years of his…

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"GOOD Camiers ck" written on slip of paper inside box. Pictures of Camiers and soldiers on the boat coming home from the war.

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From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.

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The finding aid for the Carl Waldemar Walter papers underwent a significant revision in 2020 to bring the archival description into alignment with the Center's new Guidelines for Inclusive and Conscientious Description. This is a copy of the…

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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Dr. Walter Channing, Harvard's first professor of obstetrics and medical jurisprudence, was also Dean of the Medical School for over a quarter of a century. He promoted the use of ether anaesthesia in childbirth and was one of the founders and…

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Dr. Waldo E. Boardman (1851-1922) was the Museum's third curator, serving over thirty years, from 1891 until 1922. Boardman was also part of the class of 1886.

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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[W. E. B. Du Bois photograph from the Harvard College Class of 1890 Class Book, Pach Bros., New York, New York, United States. Courtesy of Harvard University Archives, Harvard University Archives HUD 290.04 pf, and available via HOLLIS:…

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T- shaped vitallium tube with a base for standing

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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.

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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.

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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.

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A decoration of a convalescent officer at a ceremony in the court at Neuilly.

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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.

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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.

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From unlabeled box containing pictures of soldiers, wreckage, and battles throughout France.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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From box labeled "Family" containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family, as well as miscellaneous pictures from France during World War I.

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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.

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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.

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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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.

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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.

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The Viaticumis a systematic and detailed medical handbook originally written in Arabic and translated at least 3 times into Hebrew. Its popularity in medieval Europe is well-documented. The Latin translation on view here is almost certainly the work…

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Vials of Surfactant TA (Tokyo Akita), a modified sheep lung surfactant, brought back from Tetsuro Fujiwara's lab at Akita University School of Medicine, Japan, by Mary Ellen Avery. Building off of Avery's 1959 discovery that the cause of Respiratory…

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The variety of subjects allied to phrenology under the Fowler brothers is illustrated by this volume of their popular periodical. In addition to biographical sketches of prominent individuals, cranial analyses, and news of the progress of the…

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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.

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William P. C. Barton's Vegetable materia medica of the United States, along with Jacob Bigelow's contemporary American medical botany, are the first two American botanical publications with colored illustrations. Barton's contains hand-colored…

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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.

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"GOOD Camiers ck" written on slip of paper inside box. Pictures of Camiers and soldiers on the boat coming home from the war.

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From box labeled "Camier I". Pictures of Camiers, including the Chateau, operating room, and outdoor scenes, and photos of Sophie Kazanjian and Georges Villain.

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From large wooden slide box with "Pictures of Camiers / 1914-1915" written on lid, and with a slip of paper reading "Camiers / World War I / also / Ste Croix." Box contains images of Camiers, as well as assorted images from a family vacation to…

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"GOOD Camiers ck" written on slip of paper inside box. Pictures of Camiers and soldiers on the boat coming home from the war.

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From large wooden slide box with "Pictures of Camiers / 1914-1915" written on lid, and with a slip of paper reading "Camiers / World War I / also / Ste Croix." Box contains images of Camiers, as well as assorted images from a family vacation to…

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From box labeled "Camier I". Pictures of Camiers, including the Chateau, operating room, and outdoor scenes, and photos of Sophie Kazanjian and Georges Villain.

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From box labeled "Family" containing pictures of Dr. Kazanjian's daughter Helene and family, as well as miscellaneous pictures from France during World War I.

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Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian's pioneering contributions to plastic surgery transformed the new discipline into an esteemed surgical specialty. He recorded his unique treatments and methods in one hundred and fifty journal articles and he co-authored…

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Anesthesia vaporizers were designed to help provide accurate amounts of anesthetic gas to the patient. Clockwise: Ohio No. 8 Vaporizer, circa 1940s; Copper Kettle Vaporizer, circa 1950s; Fluothane® Vaporizer, circa 1950s; and Boyle Bottle, circa…

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This unusual illustration of a child's arm with the distinctive mark of inoculation was inserted in Benjamin Waterhouse's own copy of The Origin of the Vaccine Inoculation (London : printed by D. N. Shury, 1801). The Origin was Edward Jenner's…

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This illustration from a popular New York periodical encourages parents to vaccinate their children against smallpox

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Robert John Thornton published this detailed account of smallpox vaccination cases as an attack on Dr. Benjamin Moseley (1742-1819) and other opponents of Edward Jenner's work. In 1800, Moseley, a member of the Royal College of Physicians, suggested…

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Surgeon George Hayward performed the second operation employing ether at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 17, 1847, and then the first capital operation—the successful amputation of a leg—later that year. The following year, on April 12th,…

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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.

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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Part of a collection of photographic negatives for images taken by Richard U. Light (1902-1994) of senior medical and surgical staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, from 1930 to 1935, during the period of his surgical…

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Metal trocar instrument with a removable base that can be switched out with 4 tips of varying sizes (6.0 mm, 4.5 mm, 3.3 mm, and 1.9 mm)

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These instruments were used by Union Navy Assistant Surgeon and 1861 Harvard Medical School graduate Charles Thatcher Hubbard aboard the USS Unadilla during the American Civil War. The Unadilla was one of the Union's 2390 day gunboats and was…

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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.

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The Hyams Collection includes the Hand-apparat, an extensive working pamphlet collection of August von Wassermann (1866-1925), a German bacteriologist who worked with Robert Koch and discovered the Wassermann test for syphilis. The collection focuses…

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The A.E.F. issued these guidelines on instructions and preventive measures against gas attacks, including carrying masks and respirators, frequent drills, alarms, and inspection of equipment. The guidelines include instructions on anti-gas…

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From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5. 1917-1919 .H. C. Cranial Wounds 1917 & 1918." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.

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From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5. 1917-1919 .H. C. Cranial Wounds 1917 & 1918." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.

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From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5. 1917-1919 .H. C. Cranial Wounds 1917 & 1918." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.

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Two semi-spherical vitallium molds used for hip arthroplasty

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From box titled "Dr. Cushing's Lantern Slides. Base Hospital No. 5. 1917-1919 .H. C. Cranial Wounds 1917 & 1918." All lantern slides manufactured by Weeke's Manufacturing Co., 181 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.

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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.
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