This patriotic musical poem was first printed in the June issue of The Atlantic monthly and also as part of a program for a prize-giving ceremony at the Boston Latin School on May 25, 1861, just a few weeks after Confederate forces began firing on…
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…
"Promulgated for the purpose of spreading medical light and information in America," Samuel Stearns' herbal is the first to be printed in the United States and incorporates information from the traditions of American Indians.
This is the first respirator ever made for clinical use being tested on the roof of the Harvard School of Public Health in 1928. It was utilized for the first time on October 12, 1928 at Children’s Hospital, Boston to successfully restore breathing…
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.
Although invited to the dedication, physician Sir William Osler—who had just been named Oxford's Regius Professor of Medicine—could not attend, but did telegraph his congratulations.
After J. B. D. Demeaux's Recherches sur l'evolution du sac herniaire suivies de considerations chirurgicales sur les complications auxelles il pent donner lieu, plate 4
After J. B. D. Demeaux's Recherches sur l'evolution du sac herniaire suivies de considerations chirurgicales sur les complications auxelles il pent donner lieu, plate 6
After John Shaw's Engravings illustrative of a work on the nature and treatment of the distortions to which the spine and the bones of the chest are subject, plate 4
After J. B. D. Demeaux's Recherches sur l'evolution du sac herniaire suivies de considerations chirurgicales sur les complications auxelles il pent donner lieu, plate 5
Probably after Vincent Duval's Traite pratique du pied-bot, Charles Phillips's Die subcutane Durchschneidung der Sehnen, oder, Die Operationen, welche zur Heilung der Klumpf
After Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert's Description des maladies de la peau, v.2, plate between pages 45 and 46, and after Carl Thiersch's Der Epithelialkrebs namentlich der Haut atlas, table VI