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]]> Nature manuscript]]> Nature manuscript, 1977 January]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

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]]> News]]> News, with cover story about Dr. Folkman, 1967 June]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

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]]> Surgical Forum article]]> Surgical Forum article with colleagues Dr. David Long and Dr. Fred Becker, entitled, "Tumor Growth in Organ Culture."]]> Surgical Forum article, 1962 March 19]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

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]]> Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin article about Judah Folkman, cardiologist Dr. Paul Dudley White (1886-1973), Dr. Robert Gross, and Airplane.]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

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]]> The New England Journal of Medicine article]]> The New England Journal of Medicine article, "Tumor Angiogenesis: Therapeutic Implications," Dr. Folkman described TAF.]]> The New England Journal of Medicine article, 1971]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

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]]> Surgery, entitled, "The Use of Aortic Occlusion in Abdominal Surgery with a Report of Two Human Cases."]]> An online guide to the collection is available.

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Dr. Poussaint is Professor of Radiology at Boston Children's Hospital, Director of Neurooncologic Imaging, Director of the Pediatric Neuroradiology Fellowship, Chair of Boston Children's Hospital's Institutional Review Board, and Director of the Neuroimaging Center and Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium. She is a Fellow of the American College of Radiology (ACR) and has served in several professional organizations including the ASNR, RSNA and SPR. She is a Past-President of the American Society of Pediatric Neuroradiology (ASPNR). She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College and Yale University School of Medicine.

Dr. Stone is Chair of the Department of Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital and the Charles S. Davidson Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a nationally recognized expert in HIV/AIDS care, and her research focuses on disparities in HIV/AIDS care by race/ethnicity and gender. She is previously the director of the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program and Associate Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she was also the first African American woman promoted to full professor. Dr. Stone was a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians and Chairperson of their Education Committee until 2014. She served on the Board of Directors of the AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts for nearly a decade, and she has been a community health educator for Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) for more than 20 years; she received their Community Hero Award in 2017. She earned her medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine and her Master of Public Health Degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.]]> Click here to go to transcript.]]]> ]]> ]]> Click here to go to transcript.]]]>
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Dr. Davis' interview is available to researchers at the Center for the History of Medicine. Contact chm@hms.harvard.edu for more information.]]>
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The photograph was taken for the Boston Herald American in Boston on April 5, 1976, during a protest against court-ordered desegregation busing. The photograph, considered a symbol of the turmoil of the Boston busing crisis, won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for Spot Photography.

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Parkman-Webster Murder]]> Latin Name: Pulvis Ipecacuanha

Common Name: Powder of the root of ipecacuanha

Classification: Emetic, diaphoretic, and expectorant

Isolated Drug/s: Emetine

Medicinal Usage: Mild. Ipecacuanha is used as a safe and dependable emetic, and in smaller doses as a diaphoretic or expectorant. In these small doses it produces depression of the pulse, and is thus also used in pulmonary and inflammatory disorders.

It is good for the treatment of dysentery and most fevers, and also for opium poisoning. Well adjusted for the remedy of spasmodic croup in children or other bronchial disorders, and to all cases where a simple evacuation of the stomach is desired. It can be given in a variety of dosage forms, depending on the intended effect or recipient. For example, as an emetic with tartar emetic, as a syrup, as a powder, or a tonic.

⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery]]> Angiogram of a 58 year old female with a right-sided Kugel's artery to the atrioventricular node artery. The patient had known coronary artery disease with 8 weeks of unstable angina, and a percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty of the right coronary artery. The original cine film was digitized, and a redacted electronic copy was created to remove the patient's name and patient number.

The recording was described in Paulin's teaching film inventory with the following annotation: "7/6/95. 58F. Right sided Kugels to AV. Known CAD, 8 weeks of unstable angina! had also PTCA of RCA."

Paulin's colleague, Julian Max Aroesty, commented during an acquisitions interview (2015 May 21) that this film shows an unusual collateral, blood flow to a blockage from an unusual area.

]]> Latin Name: Myrtus Pimenta

Common Name: Berries of pimento, or allspice

Classification: Cordial tonic, stomachic, and carminative

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: Myrtus Pimenta is used chiefly in julaps and draughts to flavour other medicines in order to mask their disagreeable or nauseous taste. It can also be used as a stomachic to ease indigestion.

⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery]]> Latin Name: Potassium Bichromate (this inscription is French)

Common Name: Potassium bichromate, or red chromate of potash

Classification: Caustic and alterative

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: An irritant caustic, poisonous in overdoses. In the correct dose it is used as a treatment for syphilis, with a powder or solution being applied to syphilitic warts, as well as a pill being given orally to treat the internal disease. In large doses it is an emetic.

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Latin Name: Folia Sennae

Common Name: Leaves of senna

Classification: Cathartic and diuretic

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: A prompt, efficient, and safe cathartic, being milder than other drastic purgatives. Folia Sennae is thus good for use in fevers or inflammatory cases, with pregnant women, or other vulnerable patients. Side effects can include severe abdominal pain and a bad taste in the mouth.

The leaves are infused in water or alcohol to release their cathartic properties. Folla Sennae can be made into a variety of dosage forms alongisde these infusions, including compounds, tinctures, and confections.

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Common Name: Literally, "whale sperm"- oil or wax from the head of a sperm whale

Classification: Demulcent and emollient

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: Used in many different kinds of lotions, as well as for the treatment of gonorrhea and catarrh. Spermaceti can be mixed with wax and olive oil to form cerates (a substance similar to ointment but harder and non-melting), which is applied as an adhesive in excoriations.

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Latin Name: Humulus Lupulus

Common Name: Extract of the common hop

Classification: Astringent, tonic, narcotic, soporific, and anodyne

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: Humulus Lupulus is used in malt liquors as a stomachic, or alternatively as an antaphrodisiac. The seeds of the hops, lupulin, contain the active ingredient and preparations containing them are the most effective. The combination of tonic and narcotic properties makes Humulus Lupulus an excellent remedy in mania-a-potu (alcoholic mania).

Hop pillows can be used as a hypnotic. Preparations of hops given internally are effective in reducing restlessness, inducing sleep, and easing pain. Effective dosage forms include an infusion or tincuture, a powder, and pill. Topically they can be applied as a poultice to ease painful swellings or tumours.

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Latin Name: Semina Colchicum Autumnale

Common Name: Bulb of autumn crocus, or meadowsaffron

Classification: Narcotic, diuretic, and diaphoretic

Isolated Drug/s: Colchicine

Medicinal Usage: Toxic and potent. The bulb of Colchicum Autumnale is used as an anodyne narcotic for gout or rheumatism, and a diuretic and diaphoretic in fever. Side effects include vomiting, bloody stools, severe abdominal pain, bradycardia, and stupor, as the dose increases. It is usually administered in repeated doses until the bowels are affected.

For the treatment of gout, Colchicum Autumnale is combined with epsom salt and magnesia and prepared in a solution. It can also be mixed with opium in treatment of the kidneys or skin. It can be given as a powder, wine or tincture.

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Latin Name: Nux Vomica Pulvis

Common Name: Powder of dog-button seed

Classification: Narcotic, tonic, diuretic, diaphoretic, cathartic

Isolated Drug/s: Strychnine and brucine

Medicinal Usage: Highly potent. In small doses, Nux Vomica is used to treat fevers such as dysentery due to its diaphoretic and tonic properties. Larger doses cause severe side effects, including rigidity, spasms, convulsion and death from respiratory failure.

It is primarily used as a stimulant in torpid or paralytic nervous or muscular conditions, and is most efficacious when such conditions are not associated with specific lesions. For example, general paralysis, paraplegia, and amaurosis. Nux Vomica is also a specific for the bite of a water snake.

The dosage form given is usually powder, sometimes made into pill form, but it can also be given as an extract in alcohol, or as a tincture.

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Common Name: Red sulfured antimony

Classification: Emetic and cathartic

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: Kermes Minerale is a preparation chiefly employed internally as an alterative in cutaneous affectations, such as secondary syphilis. It is usually used in conjunction with mercurials. It can also be used as an emetic with similar effects to tartar emetic, in order to induce vomiting when disease is to be avoided. Sometimes useful in glandular disorders or liver complaints.

⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery]]> Latin Name: Potassae Carbonus Impurus

Common Name: Potassium carbonate, otherwise known as lixiva or potash

Classification: Deobstruent, attenuant, diaphoretic, antacid, diuretic, and aperient

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: A salt prepared by burning plant material with close, smothering heat. It is a mixture of one part carbonic acid, one part potassa, and two or three parts water.

Potassae Carbonus Impurus is used as an antacid in dyspepsia and a diuretic in diabetes, but also in the treatment of scurvy, believed to be a dietary deficiency in potassium. It is also sometimes used as an anti-inflammatory in respiratory conditions. Dose is usually given in sweetened aromatic water.

⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery]]> Latin Name: Extractum Stramonium

Common Name: Extract of jimson weed, or thornapple

Classification: Narcotic, tonic, diuretic, anodyne, antispasmodic, and antitussive

Isolated Drug/s: Hyoscamine and daturia

Medicinal Usage: A potent narcotic like belladonna, Stramonium causes many side effects as the dose increases, including vertigo, headache, dim vision, confused thought, a feeling of suffocation, sleepiness, relaxation of the bowels, diuresis, and diaphoresis, all of which persist for several hours. In larger doses, it causes heart pain, excessive thirst, nausea and vomiting, a sense of strangulation, anxiety, blindness, delirium, tremors, palsy, convulsions, and death.

Used chiefly in disorders of the nervous system such as neuralgia, mania or epilepsy. Stramonium can also be applied as an ointment or poultice to cutaneous inflammations, and to the eye to dilate the pupil for cataract extraction. The berries provide the highest concentrate of the drug, whilst the leaves can be smoked to alleviate asthma. Doses can be given as a powder, tincture, ointment, or extract (as here).

⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery]]> Latin Name: Carum Carvi

Common Name: Caraway seeds

Classification: Stomachic, carminative, and diuretic

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: Carum carvi are often used to relieve flatulent colic, especially in children.

⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery]]> Latin Name: Semina Cardamom

Common Name: Cardamom seeds

Classification: Aromatic, carminative, and diaphoretic

Isolated Drug/s: None

Medicinal Usage: Semina Cardamom are employed as a corrective agent to stimulant, tonic, and purgative medicines. Often prepared as a tincture.

⇐ Back to the Apothecary Jars Gallery]]> Latin Name: Balsam Styrax Benzoin

Common Name: Benzoin, or balsam of peru, the resin of the benjamin tree

Classification: Blenhorrhetic

Isolated Drug/s: Benzoic acid

Medicinal Usage: The resin of the tree is obtained from incisions in the bark, and then boiled in water so that the balsam settles at the bottom. It has the consistency of honey.

Used as a stimulating blennhorrhetic, expectorant and tonic. It is employed in treatment of bronchitis, chronic catarrh, asthma, gonorrhea, leucorrhea, or externally to ulcers. It is commonly given in the form of a pill, emulsion, or inhalation.

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Latin Name: Dulcamara

Common Name: Bittersweet, or climbing nightshade

Classification: Narcotic, diaphoretic, diuretic, cathartic, discutient, emmenagogue, antimanic, and aphrodisiac

Isolated Drug/s: Solanine

Medicinal Usage: The root, stalk and berries have medicinal value. In small doses, Dulcamara causes an increase in the secretions of the skin, kidneys and mucous surfaces, with some dimunition of sensibility. In large doses, it is an acro-narcotic poison.

Dulcamara is used as a diaphoretic and diuretic to treat painful cutaneous affections, rheumatism, and gout. It is also used as an expectorant for chornic catarrh. It is often prepared in the form of a decoction, but a nerve oitment may be made with the bark and roots, and used to treat bruises, sprains, and stiff joints.

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