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First Ether Charts
As a medical student Harvey Cushing, along with classmate, Ernst Amory Codman, resolved to improve the technique for giving ether and created the first known ether charts, (back of one chart reproduced here) carefully recording patient pulse,…
First Ether Charts
As a medical student Harvey Cushing, along with classmate, Ernst Amory Codman, resolved to improve the technique for giving ether and created the first known ether charts, (front of one chart reproduced here) carefully recording patient pulse,…
Newspaper announcement of the first operation under ether anesthesia.
First announcement of the surgical operation using ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Photographs from "The Advent of Anesthesia" Film
In 1933, the Mallinckrodt Chemical Company produced a short silent file, “The Advent of Anesthesia”, depicting the experiments of W. T. G. Morton with ether anesthesia and recreating the first public demonstration of the operation on Gilbert Abbott…
Studies for the First Operation under Ether
10 pencil sketches of heads and torsos of physicians made at the time of painting The First Operation under Ether. Two individuals are unidentified.
Photograph of Charles T. Jackson.
Photograph of Charles T. Jackson.
Responses to the Interrogatories of R. H. Dana
At the request of William T. G. Morton, “to be preserved in perpetual remembrance of the thing,” sixteen physicians--John Collins Warren and Henry Jacob Bigelow among them--with knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the ether discovery and its…
A. L. Peirson letter to W. T. G. Morton, 1847
Copy of a letter addressed to Morton, describing Peirson's successful surgical amputations employing ether anesthesia.
Effect of increasing concentrations of ATP on the incorporation of C14-ATP into RNA of pH 5 fraction
Drawing of U.S. Base Hospital No. 6.
World War, 1914-1918.
"Many changes made in personnel of Base Hospital No. 5, the Harvard Unit"
Newsclipping from the Boston Herald, September 29, 1918.
Final inspection of the Harvard Unit at Fort Totten, N.Y.
Photograph of the final inspection of the Harvard Unit at Fort Totten, N.Y.
"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,…
"Memorial to dead of Base Hospital 5, Harvard." October 12, 1928.
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,…
Map showing the bomb impact sites at Base Hospital No. 5, September 13, 1917.
The plan of the hospital, drawn by Private Paul R. Frost, depicts the impact sites of the five bombs.
Letter to Edward H. Bradford on the bombing of Base Hospital No. 5, September 13, 1917.
Although not present at Camiers during the event, Harvey Cushing sent this account of the air raid and bombing of Base Hospital No. 5 to the Dean of Harvard Medical School a few days after the event. The editorial corrections made by Cushing were…
News Letter of the Harvard B.E.F. Association, February 1946.
In 1937, the men and women of the Harvard Surgical Unit formed the Harvard Unit, B.E.F. Association "to keep alive friendships fostered during the years in France and to have a committee through whom information may be obtained." At the first…
"A student's dream"
'A standing skeleton joins seated cadavers, preparing to dissect a sleeping medical student. Iconographic elements that by 1906 had become commonplace in dissecting room group portraiture are gathered together in this science: the book propped open…
Interior of ward at No. 22 General Hospital.
Glass lantern slide of interior of ward at No. 22 General Hospital.
Photograph of J. Warren White and Paul Dudley White.
Photograph of J. Warren White and Paul Dudley White in military uniform.
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 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…
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.
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.
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…
"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,…
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
