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Dr. Robert Zollinger
Judah Folkman's research with members of the Zollinger laboratory was the focus of the first academic paper he coauthored in Surgery, entitled, "The Use of Aortic Occlusion in Abdominal Surgery with a Report of Two Human Cases."
Eagle skeleton [WAM 00161] prepared by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Photograph of eagle skeleton [WAM 00151] prepared by and donated by Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Warren Anatomical Museum in 1851. Eagle skeleton is being photographed on the Harvard Medical School quad by artists from the Art Institute of Boston in…
Letter to John C. Warren from Dr. Benjamin Barrett
The letter discusses methods employed in setting a hip dislocation as a result of the ongoing trial, Lowell vs. Faxon and Hawkes.
Cast of the fist of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Made at the request of librarian James Read Chadwick, the bronzed fist of Oliver Wendell Holmes was displayed in the original Holmes Hall of the Boston Medical Library's building following the memorial meeting on October 30, 1894. The sculptor,…
Photographic studies for a bust of Oliver Wendell Holmes
Sculptor Truman Howe Bartlett made these photographs and measurements of Holmes at the age of 75 with the intention of making a bust, but the project was abandoned as “the necessary sittings were irksome to the subject.” After…
Vegetable materia medica of the United States
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…
Carl Zeiss Jena monocular microscope
Black enamel compound monocular microscope with brass knobs and objectives used by Lynne M. Reid and S. Burt Wolbach before her. Nose-piece contains four objective lenses. Illuminator has aperture to control light levels. More modern wooden…
The American practice of medicine
In reaction to the harsh practices of regular physicians and also the sweating and purging regimens of Thomsonianism, Wooster Beach developed his own botanical medical system which evolved into medical eclecticism, one of the most popular sectarian…
Dr. Folkman's manuscript draft about his tumor and organ culture experiments
Manuscript draft for "Growth and Metastasis of Tumor and Organ Culture," Dr. Folkman coauthored with Dr. David Long and Dr. Fred Becker while stationed at the Naval Medical Research Institute.
Dr. Folkman's summary for Surgical Forum article
Dr. Folkman served in the United States Navy from 1960 to 1962. It was while stationed at the Naval Medical Research Institute (NMRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, that Dr. Folkman began his tumor angiogenesis research. Dr. Folkman coauthored a 1962…
Letter to Dr. Folkman from Dr. Fred Becker
Letter from Dr. Folkman's former Naval Medical Research Institute colleague, Dr. Fred Becker, in response to recent articles published about Folkman's TAF research. Becker writes that it is "extremely difficult to remain mute in the face of that…
Becton Dickinson Catalog, pages 30–31
A 1927 Becton Dickinson Catalog, pages 30 and 31, with images and a list of needles for sale.
A group of deaf-mute families from Maine
As part of his research on deafness, Alexander Graham Bell made statistical analyses of the deaf-mutes and determined that deafness was hereditary and that the number of intermarriages between deaf-mutes was high and growing. He concluded that…
An attempt to investigate some obscure and undecided doctrines in relation to small-pox, varioloid and vaccination
The endpapers of this short work on smallpox vaccination contain a bookplate of Dr. Addison Marshall Clark (1857-1919), an Ohio surgeon, along with an 1894 inscription from Dr. Howard A. Kelly (1853-1943), presenting it to William Osler as “a…
"Thank You" from Belmont High School
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From a collection of cards and objects sent to the Brigham and Women's Hospital by well-wishers after the terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The collection represents a…
From a collection of cards and objects sent to the Brigham and Women's Hospital by well-wishers after the terrorist bombing of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The collection represents a…
