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Sir William Osler in his library at 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford.
Photograph of Sir William Osler in his library at 13 Norham Gardens, Oxford, standing at fireplace before portraits of Thomas Linacre, William Harvey, and Thomas Sydenham.
Sir William Osler.
Mounted photograph of Sir William Osler, inscribed to Henry Rouse Viets, January 26, 1917.
Plan of No. 22 General Hospital (Camiers, France), 1916.
Plan of No. 22 General Hospital drawn by Paul Dudley White.
"Harvard University Surgical Unit of the British 'Red Cross' entertained at Warwick Castle by Mr. & Mrs. Marsh, July 10th 1915"
Photographic postcard of visit of Harvard Surgical Unit to Warwick Castle en route to service in France.
Photograph of bearers removing patient from ambulance at American Ambulance Hospital, circa 1915.
Photograph of bearers removing patient from ambulance at American Ambulance Hospital.
Photograph of Dr. Varaztad H. Kazanjian leaving Buckingham Palace after his investiture as a Companion of St. Michael and St. George for his services during World War I.
With him are his friends, Mr. and Mrs. W. Warwick James of London.
"Front view and grounds, Oral Surgery Department, 20th General Hospital, British Expeditionary Force, in which Dr. Kazanjian hand his staff from Harvard University were located."
Photograph of the exterior of the Oral Surgery Department at No. 20 General Hospital.
"Leaving Camiers, Jan. 1, 1919"
Photograph of the departure of the Harvard Surgical Unit from No. 22 General Hospital, January 1, 1919, from the album of Helen F. Kimmens.
"Inside a Ward," circa 1918.
Photograph of the interior of a surgical ward at No. 22 General Hospital, from the album of Helen F. Kimmens.
"Admitting a Convoy," circa 1918.
Photograph of admission of convoy of wounded soldiers to General Hospital No. 22 from album of Helen F. Kimmens.
"Operating Theatre", circa 1918.
Photograph of operating theatre at General Hospital No. 22 from album of Helen F. Kimmens.
Sketch of Base Hospital No. 6 by Paul Dudley White.
A sketch of the plan of Base Hospital No. 6 from the diary of Paul Dudley White, May 1918.
Exercise Tests for Soldiers from the Diary of Paul Dudley White, July 1918.
While attached to Base Hospital No. 6 in the summer of 1918, Paul Dudley White examined and analyzed convalescent gassed soldiers to determine their fitness for return to duty. He devised a number of respiratory and exercise tests for the soldiers,…
Diagram of the Tent of Paul Dudley White, 1916.
A sketch of the tent of Paul Dudley White at No. 22 General Hospital, Camiers, 1916, from his diary.
Cardiologist Paul Dudley White went overseas to France in August 1916 as a member of the supplement to the Third Surgical Unit, working for…
Cardiologist Paul Dudley White went overseas to France in August 1916 as a member of the supplement to the Third Surgical Unit, working for…
A Case of Shell-Shock from the Diary of Paul Dudley White, September 27, 1916.
Cardiologist Paul Dudley White went overseas to France in August 1916 as a member of the supplement to the Third Surgical Unit, working for several months with the B.E.F. at General Hospital No. 22. He then returned the following year as part of the…
Draft of a Letter : Boston, Mass., to F. F. Simpson, Washington, D.C., February 17, 1917.
At the request of the Council of National Defense, Paul Dudley White outlined five critical observations following his months at General Hospital No. 22 and made suggestions for improvements of potential use to American medical forces as entry into…
After-Order by Lieut.-Colonel Hugh Cabot, C.M.G., R.A.M.C., February 1919
At the conclusion of service with the British army in France, the personnel of the Harvard Unit were given this printed communication, extending the thanks of Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig as well as the commendation of Hugh Cabot:
The months…
The months…
Passport photograph of M. Blanche Wallace, 1918.
Autographed passport photograph of M. Blanche Wallace, April 1918. Mary Blanche Wallace (1892-1979) of Woburn served as a nurse with the third Harvard Surgical Unit, working at General Hospital No. 22 from June 11, 1916, to June 9, 1917. She then…
Photograph of Frederick James Caldwell and Chauncey Nye Lewis, circa 1917.
Photograph of Frederick James Caldwell and Chauncey Nye Lewis at General Hospital No. 22, circa 1917.
"Some of Our Doctors," May 1916.
Photograph of the Medical Personnel of the Third Harvard Surgical Unit, May 1916.
Standing (l-r):
Edward Saunders Dillon
Dennis Rider Wood Crile
Edward Harding
Paul Gustafson
Henry Rouse Viets
Charles William Peabody
George Byron Packard,…
Standing (l-r):
Edward Saunders Dillon
Dennis Rider Wood Crile
Edward Harding
Paul Gustafson
Henry Rouse Viets
Charles William Peabody
George Byron Packard,…
Medical Case Sheet (Army Form I. 1237), August 15-17, 1917.
As wounded soldiers were evacuated from the battlefield for hospital treatment, each was issued a field medical card for identification with a brief diagnosis or assessment; the card was in a window envelope and tied to the individual, with red-edged…
"Third Harvard Unit is Off to France," May 20, 1916.
Mary Blanche Wallace (1892-1979) of Woburn served as a nurse with the third Harvard Surgical Unit, working at General Hospital No. 22 from June 11, 1916, to June 9, 1917. She then returned to France in April 1918 as a member of the American Red…
Harvard Unit armband, May 1916.
Armband worn by members of the Harvard Surgical Unit en route to France during World War I.
Mary Blanche Wallace (1892-1979) of Woburn served as a nurse with the third Harvard Surgical Unit, working at General Hospital No. 22 from June 11, 1916,…
Mary Blanche Wallace (1892-1979) of Woburn served as a nurse with the third Harvard Surgical Unit, working at General Hospital No. 22 from June 11, 1916,…
Field Medical Card, May 1917.
As wounded soldiers were evacuated from the battlefield for hospital treatment, each was issued a field medical card for identification with a brief diagnosis or assessment; the card was in a window envelope and tied to the individual, with red-edged…
Photograph of the Officers of U.S.A. Base Hospital No. 5 (Harvard Medical School Unit), taken at Fort Totten, N.Y., May 10, 1917.
Taken on the day before departure for Europe, the photograph shows Drs. Harvey Cushing and Roger I. Lee flanking Major Robert U. Patterson, the commanding officer, in the center of the front row.
Letter from Robert I. Lee to Ella Lowell from Base Hospital No. 5, January 24, 1918.
Professor of Hygiene at Harvard, Roger I. Lee was a member of the Surgical Unit in 1915. He was a Major in the Medical Reserve Corps at the United States' entry into the war. Assigned to Base Hospital No. 5, Lee was its officer in command through…
Photograph of Medical Ward, Camp Hospital No. 12.
After initial attachment to General Hospital No. 4 in the British Expeditionary Force, Frank W. Snow was then assigned to Camp Hospital No. 12 in the A.E.F. in April 1918 and appointed officer in command there. He was transferred to Camp Hospital…
Photographs of Camp Hospital No. 41.
After initial attachment to General Hospital No. 4 in the British Expeditionary Force, Frank W. Snow was then assigned to Camp Hospital No. 12 in the A.E.F. in April 1918 and appointed officer in command there. He was transferred to Camp Hospital…
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…
Panorama photograph of Camp Hospital No. 12.
After initial attachment to General Hospital No. 4 in the British Expeditionary Force, Frank W. Snow was then assigned to Camp Hospital No. 12 in the A.E.F. in April 1918 and appointed officer in command there. He was transferred to Camp Hospital…
Photograph of Frank Whipple Snow.
Photograph of Frank Whipple Snow in uniform.
Identity card for Walter B. Cannon.
Identify card for Walter B. Cannon.
Photograph of John Fraser and Walter B. Cannon.
Photograph of John Fraser and Walter B. Cannon.
Reports of the Special Investigation Committee on Surgical Shock and Allied Conditions. No. 2. Investigation of the Nature and Treatment of Wound Shock and Allied Conditions.
Soon after his arrival in France with Base Hospital No. 5, Walter B. Cannon was joined to group of surgeons with the B.E.F. at Casualty Clearing Station No. 33 in Béthune, to study the effects of traumatic shock in association with war wounds. He…
'Sharp gunfire : tremors; tremophobia. A patient's (an artist's) description of his feelings." Pages 310-311.
Harvard neuropsychiatrist, E. E. Southard, drew on the medical literature from the first three years of the war--English, French, Italian, Russian, German, and Austrian--to compile this study of nearly 600 cases related to shell-shock and other…
U.S. Army, American Expeditionary Forces
Defensive Measures against Gas Attacks
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…
Letter of Appreciation to the Harvard University Hospital Unit.
The British Embassy transmitted this document to the U.S. Secretary of State, who then sent it to President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard.
American Ambulance Hospital
Picture Postcards: "The Morning Rounds", "Wounded Awaiting their Turn for Dressing", and "Fresh Air Cure on the Verandas."
The postcards, part of a series, may have been used as part of a fund-raising effort for the hospital; the originals along with the passport are preserved in a scrapbook kept by Lyman G. Barton, along with a collection of photographs from his service…
Passport for Lyman G. Barton.
This passport was issued by the State Department for Lyman Guy Barton (1887-1968), a member of the surgical staff of the Harvard Unit at the American Ambulance Hospital.
Concerning Base Hospital No. 5 : a Book Published for the Personnel of Base Hospital No. 5, France, 1917-18-19.
Concerning Base Hospital No. 5 was, according to its editors, originally conceived "on the same idea of a college year book, to contain personal write-ups of every member of the unit…. Steps were immediately taken to get together pen sketches of…
The Story of U.S. Army Base Hospital No. 5 by a Member of the Unit.
Harvey Cushing published this historical account of Base Hospital No. 5 soon after the war's end, as it was "one of the Units of the American Expeditionary Force to be sent overseas; it was the first to suffer casualties at the hands of the enemy;…
Record of Patient 2146 at the Harvard University Service,
American Ambulance Hospital, June 1915.
Over 2000 detailed records of patients treated by the Harvard Unit at Neuilly have been preserved along with photographs and X-rays. Patient 2146 had a perforating shrapnel wound of the upper right arm followed by gas gangrene--the first such…
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…
Photographic Scrapbook of the American Ambulance Service, Assembled by Nurse Geraldine K. Martin.
In the spring of 1915, Geraldine K. Martin, a 1912 graduate of the Johns Hopkins Training School for Nurses, traveled to France as a member of the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance Hospital; she later assembled an album of over 250 photographs…
Circular, [New York, N.Y., October, 1914]
Established and sponsored by members of the American colony in Paris soon after the outbreak of hostilities, the American Ambulance Hospital was ready for the reception of patients on September 1, 1914, at the Lycee Pasteur in Neuilly, Paris. The…
"Honor Harvard '17 Medical Unit"
Private Oscar C. Tugo enlisted on May 7, 1917; he was killed as a night orderly during the air raid on Base Hospital No. 5 on September 4, along with Lieutenant William Fitzsimons, Privates Rudolph Rubino, Jr., and Leslie G. Woods. On October 18,…
Photograph of Oscar C. Tugo.
Private Oscar C. Tugo enlisted on May 7, 1917; he was killed as a night orderly during the air raid on Base Hospital No. 5 on September 4, along with Lieutenant William Fitzsimons, Privates Rudolph Rubino, Jr., and Leslie G. Woods. On October 18,…
Photograph from the Dedication Exercises of the Oscar C. Tugo Circle, Pasteur & Longwood Avenues, Boston, October 18, 1921.
Private Oscar C. Tugo enlisted on May 7, 1917; he was killed as a night orderly during the air raid on Base Hospital No. 5 on September 4, along with Lieutenant William Fitzsimons, Privates Rudolph Rubino, Jr., and Leslie G. Woods. On October 18,…
A Journal of the Harvard Medical School Unit to the American Ambulance Hospital in Paris, Spring of 1915 / by Elliott Carr Cutler. [S.l.] : [s.n.] 1916?
Harvard's first involvement in World War I was staffing the American Ambulance Hospital in Neuilly during the spring of 1915; it was the second unit dispatched from the United States to the hospital. The Harvard Unit had a surgical staff, under…
Plan of Base Hospital No. 5.
The plan of the hospital, drawn by Private Paul R. Frost, depicts the impact sites of the five bombs.
Letter describing treatment of Cocoanut Grove fire victims at Boston City Hospital
Letter describes the response of medical personnel and the administration of medical treatment following a mass casualty event
Ornithine experiment graph
Ornithine, genetics, data
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Kimberly Mills, Strong Medicine Oral History Project
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Strong Medicine Project Coordinator Joan Ilacqua and Kimberly Mills, Pediatric cardiology fellow at Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Taken 25 September 2014 at Children's…
Dr. Elizabeth Hay, seated at the electron microscope, examines the first classroom microscope in America, devised by Oliver W. Holmes for demonstrations in histology in 1847.
Dr. Elizabeth Hay, Assistant Professor of Anatomy, seated at the electron microscope, examines the first classroom microscope in America, devised by Oliver W. Holmes for demonstrations in histology in 1847.
Oral history interview with Paul S. Russell, MD, Boston Medical Library Oral History Project
Oral history interview of Paul S. Russell, MD, conducted by Joan Ilacqua on behalf of the Boston Medical Library. Topics include history of the Boston Medical Library, renovating the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, and the Joint Committee of…
Oliver Wendell Holmes coins the term "anesthesia"
In a letter to W. T. G. Morton, November 21, 1846, Holmes proposes the terms "anesthesia" and "anesthetic" to be used.
"An account of the first use of sulphuric ether by inhalation as an anaesthetic in surgical operations" by C. W. Long. Pages [705]-713.
Describes Crawford W. Long's experiences with surgical operations using sulphuric ether in 1842.
Photograph of the Semi-Centennial of Anaesthesia Celebration
A photograph of the attendees at the Semi-Centennial of Anaesthesia commemorative event at Massachusetts General Hospital.