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Satin, David G.]]> Anesthesia Charts of 1895 with Explanatory Notes]]> Anesthesia Charts of 1895 with Explanatory Notes, chart 12. H MS b59.2, Harvard Medical Library collection, Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library, Harvard University]]> Anesthesia Charts of 1895 with Explanatory Notes]]> Anesthesia Charts of 1895 with Explanatory Notes, chart 12. H MS b59.2, Harvard Medical Library collection, Center for the History of Medicine in the Francis A. Countway Library, Harvard University]]> oral histories (literary works)
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In the deposition displayed here, S. D. Townsend, who was present at the initial demonstration on October 16, describes the first capital operation--a leg amputation--performed on November 24 and discusses the substitution of a sponge for the inhaler.
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On October 11, 1928, the marble parapet wall at the end of the Medical School's quadrangle facing the Tugo Circle was dedicated to all four casualties of the air raid.
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On October 11, 1928, the marble parapet wall at the end of the Medical School's quadrangle facing the Tugo Circle was dedicated to all four casualties of the air raid.
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The passage displayed from Paul Dudley White's diary discusses the tests. He published his results after the war as "Observations on Some Tests of Physical Fitness," in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, in 1920.
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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 Massachusetts General Hospital unit at the A.E.F.'s Base Hospital No. 6.

White's war diaries provide a detailed and vivid account of his medical and surgical work and hospital experiences in Camiers. ]]>
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White's war diaries provide a detailed and vivid account of his medical and surgical work and hospital experiences in Camiers. The passage displayed recounts a case of shell shock following an attack during the Battle of the Somme.

I received five admissions in C9 last night, all of them shell shock cases from the Morval fighting on Monday. All but one were badly buried and had exceedingly narrow escapes, one especially who was almost suffocated under 6 feet of earth as the result of a Boche shell explosion. His comrade was dead when they dug him out. He himself was unconscious. He complains now of headache and dizziness, the usual story. The more severe shell shocks have ringing in their ears, nightmares and many are aphasic. One of my five who came in yesterday cannot say a word, though he is apparently perfectly rational. I found him with his clothes on, sitting on the side of his cot, shaking all over. He tries to speak but doesn't utter a word, merely an inarticulate sound at times. The more he tries, the more he trembles and shakes. When I asked him for the address of his next-of-kin, he showed me a picture of his wife and baby and then after much effort managed to scrawl out Paislie, Scotland. One of the shell shock cases which came in last week was somewhat similar except that he constantly made grimaces.
 
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The months and years of intimate association under conditions rarely easy, often difficult, occasionally very trying, have developed a working force of extraordinary capacity, the value of which has been generously recognized. But the work which this force can do has not ended with the armistice and will not end with the peace treaty. The peace of the world will require for its maintenance the development of the same qualities which the Staff of "No. 22" developed and demonstrated at Camiers. Recognition of opportunity and fulfillment of obligation may require that the power there acquired by exercised for years to come in order to hold and increase the gain which War has bought at such a price. The Staff of the Harvard Unit acquired tremendous capacity for the work it undertook and has achieved success and commendation, if it has also acquired vision, it has achieved immortality.
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Standing (l-r):
Edward Saunders Dillon
Dennis Rider Wood Crile
Edward Harding
Paul Gustafson
Henry Rouse Viets
Charles William Peabody
George Byron Packard, Jr.
Frederick James Caldwell
Harrison Lindsay Parker
Herbert Hill White

Seated (l-r):
Lyman Sawin Hapgood
Hugh Cabot
George Maurice Sheahan
Carl Merrill Robinson
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When more detailed information was needed, the AFI 1237 was completed, as in this example from a patient admitted to General Hospital No. 22.
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According to the newspaper coverage, “The only identifying insignia that the surgeons and nurses got at the start, at least, were tags for their hand-baggage, containing their names and the number of their staterooms on board the steamer Andania; and white arm-bands, with the Gothic letters in crimson, “H.U.,” which stands for Harvard University, as well as for Harvard Unit.” Blanche Wallis is one of the nurses in the newsclipping; they all, along with Hugh Cabot, who was in charge of the third unit, are wearing the identifying arm badge.

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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 Cross Nursing Service, working in hospitals through the end of the war. Blanche Wallis documented her experiences in two scrapbooks filled with newsclippings, photographs, ephemera and memorabilia.

According to the newspaper coverage, “The only identifying insignia that the surgeons and nurses got at the start, at least, were tags for their hand-baggage, containing their names and the number of their staterooms on board the steamer Andania; and white arm-bands, with the Gothic letters in crimson, “H.U.,” which stands for Harvard University, as well as for Harvard Unit.” ]]>
]]> Snow's original album contains interior and exterior photographs of the two A.E.F. camp hospitals--No. 12 in Le Valdahon and 41 in Is-sur-Tille.
]]> Snow's original album contains interior and exterior photographs of the two A.E.F. camp hospitals--No. 12 in Le Valdahon and 41 in Is-sur-Tille.

The photographs show Ward A for respiratory diseases; the laboratory; the office from the front; and the receiving office.
]]> Snow's original album contains interior and exterior photographs of the two A.E.F. camp hospitals--No. 12 in Le Valdahon and 41 in Is-sur-Tille.
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]]> Picture Postcards: "The Morning Rounds", "Wounded Awaiting their Turn for Dressing", and "Fresh Air Cure on the Verandas."
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Disaster medicine]]> Joseph C. Aub papers (H MS c169), the Oliver Cope papers (H MS c 177), and the Timothy Leary papers (B MS c40) for additional records related to the 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire]]> ]]> ]]>