Harvard Medical School Interiors. Images, ca. 1880-1978.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Ebert, Robert H.

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Ebert (Chicago, M.D. 1942) taught medicine at Western Reserve University and was director of Medicine at University Hospitals of Cleveland from 1956 to 1964. In 1964 he was appointed Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Ebert served as dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard from 1965 until July of 1977. His research is in the field of respiratory inflammation and infection. From the...

Meadow, Henry Coe.

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Phippen, Walter G., 1876-

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Berry, George Packer

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Berry (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1925) was a bacteriologist whose research interests are in the fields of immunology and virology. As dean of the Harvard Medical School (1949-1965), professor of bacteriology at Harvard, and past president of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), he has done much to shape the quality of medical education. He also unified the Harvard Medical School and its private teaching hospitals into one corporate organization, the Harvard Medical Center, and served a...

Whitney, William F.

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Whitney (Harvard, M.D. 1875) was curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum at Harvard from 1879 to 1921; secretary of the Harvard Medical School, 1883 to 1890; and taught parasitic diseases in the Harvard Veterinary School from 1891 to 1901. He was a noted anatomist and often served as a forensic expert in murder cases when testimony regarding vital organs was needed. From the description of Papers of William Fiske Whitney, ca.1870-1921 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat recor...

Gordon Hall of Medicine (Boston, Mass.)

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Davis, Bernard D., 1916-1994

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Bernard D. Davis, 1916-1994, AB, 1936, Harvard College; MD, 1940, Harvard Medical School, was a bacteriologist at Harvard Medical School from 1957 to 1984, and was named Adele Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology and Director of the Bacterial Physiology Unit in 1968. Davis's research focused on protein synthesis, aminoglycides, ribosomes and protein transport; he also conducted innovative gene studies. From the description of Papers, 1960-1993. (Harvard University). WorldCat reco...

Minot, George Richards, 1885-1950

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George Richards Minot (1885-1950), AB, 1908, Harvard College; MD, 1912, Harvard Medical School, was a hematologist and Director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital. Minot was also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focused on blood and nutrition, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1934 for discovering that liver extract cured pernicious anemia. From the description of Papers, 1891-1951. (Harvard Universi...

Blumgart, Herrman L. (Herrman Ludwig), 1895-1977

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Krayer, Otto, 1899-1982

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Otto Krayer (1899-1982), M.D., 1926, University of Freiburg, Germany, was a pharmacologist, professor, and researcher. Krayer was an international leader in the field of pharmacology and Head of the Department of Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, for twenty-eight years. In 1933, Krayer refused an appointment to an academic chair at the University of Dusseldorf after the removal of the Jewish incumbent by Nazi government officials in Germany. For this, Kr...

Warren Anatomical Museum

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The Warren Anatomical Museum opened in 1847 to house the anatomical specimen collection of John C. Warren. From the description of Records of the Warren Anatomical Museum, 1828-1892 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281434989 The Warren Anatomical Museum was founded in 1847 by John Collins Warren. Dr. Warren gave his private collection of specimens and models of normal and "morbid" anatomy to form the core of the collection. The collection also includes ...

Holt, Anna C.

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Enders, John F.

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John Franklin Enders was born in West Hartford, Connecticut on February 10, 1897. He received the A.B. from Yale University (1920), and the M.A. in English (1922), and the Ph.D. in Bacteriology and Immunology (1930) from Harvard University. Enders taught at the Harvard University Medical School from 1930 to 1972, and was professor emeritus from 1967 to 1985. He was appointed director of the Infectious Disease Research Laboratory at the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston in 1946, and in...

Esterquest, Ralph Theodore.

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Ernst, Harold C. (Harold Clarence), 1856-1922

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Ernst (Harvard, M.D. 1880) taught bacteriology at the Harvard Medical School from 1885 to 1922; he was probably the first to lecture on the subject as a part of the regular course curriculum in an American medical school. He was responsible for the organization of a bacteriology laboratory under the auspices of the City of Boston which initially worked toward detection and prevention of diphtheria. He edited the Journal of Medical Research from 1896 to 1922, and he served as director of scholars...

Talbot, Fritz B. (Fritz Bradley), 1878-1964

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Talbot (Harvard, M.D. 1905) was clinical professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, 1922-1932, 1942-1946, and was chief of the Children's Medical Service at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1910 to 1931. His research was on digestion, nutrition, and treatment of diseases in infants and children. From the description of Papers of Fritz Bradley Talbot, 1909-1945 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281429948 ...

Bloomquist, Harold

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Dexter, Franklin, 1857-1927,

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Chase, George Henry, 1874-1952

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Chase (Harvard, A.B., 1896) taught classical archaeology and served as Dean of the Graduate School at Harvard from 1925 to 1939. From the description of Papers of George Henry Chase, 1926-1951 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973285 ...

Gage, Phineas, 1823-1860

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Phineas P. Gage (1823–1860) was an American railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe, and for that injury's reported effects on his personality and behavior over the remaining 12 years of his lifeffects sufficiently profound that friends saw him (for a time at least) as "no longer Gage". Long known as the "American Crowbar Case - once t...

Whitney, James Lyman, 1881-1935

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Vanderbilt Hall (Boston, Mass.)

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Vanderbilt Hall, located at 107 Ave. Louis Pasteur in Boston, wasbuilt in 1927 and designed by the architectural firm of Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch, Abbott. As of 2001, Vanderbilt Hall is the residence hall for Harvard Medical School, the School of Dental Medicine, the Division of Medical Sciences, and theSchool of Public Health. From the description of General information by and about Vanderbilt Hall. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77066344 ...

Means, James Howard, 1885-1967

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Means (Harvard, M.D. 1911) was Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard from 1932 to 1951, acting dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1946, and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1924 to 1951. He established the first thyroid clinic in Boston in 1920 and introduced the use of radioactive iodine as a valuable diagnostic aid in the treatment of thyroid disorders in 1941. Means resigned from the American Medical Association in 1951 because he felt its attitude ...

Hale, Worth, 1876-

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Cobb, Stanley, 1887-1968

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Stanley Cobb, 1887-1968, MD, 1914, Harvard Medical School, was Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School; Cobb taught neurology at Harvard Medical School from 1919 to 1954. Cobb served as Chief of the Neurology Service at Boston City Hospital from 1925 until 1934 when he was appointed Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, a position he held until his retirement in 1954. During a trip to Europe, 1924-1925, as a Rockefeller Fellow, he made a wide range of profe...

Shattuck, George Cheever, 1879-1972

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1905) was clinical professor of tropical medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1938 to 1947. His research interest was the clinical aspects of exotic and tropical diseases. From the description of Papers of George Cheever Shattuck, 1829-1970 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281437161 Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1905) was assistant professor of tropical medicine, 1921-1938, and clinical professor of tropical medicine,1938-1947, at Harvar...

Wolbach, S. Burt (Simeon Burt), 1880-1954

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Wolbach (Harvard, M.D. 1903) was Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1922 to 1947; pathologist-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham, Boston Lying-in, and Children's Hospitals in Boston, Mass., until 1947; and director of Division of Nutritional Research at Children's Hospital from 1947 until 1954. His research was on infectious diseases, vitamin deficiency, and experimental pathology. From the description of Papers of Simeon Burt Wolbach, 1901-1961 (in...

Hawes, Lloyd E., 1912-1988

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Hawes was a radiologist at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1919-1974. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281458220 ...

Thorn, George W. (George Widmer), 1906-2004

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Burwell, C. Sidney (Charles Sidney), 1893-

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Burwell (Harvard, M.D., 1919) physiologist in cardiovascular diseases and teacher, was dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1935 to 1949. From the description of Papers of Charles Sidney Burwell, 1926-1965 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281427973 Charles Sidney Burwell (1893-1967), M.D.,1919, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, was Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University (1928-1935), Dean of the Harvard Medical School (1935-1949), Rese...

Oncley, J. L. (John Lawrence)

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Bowditch, H. P. (Henry Pickering), 1840-1911

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Bowditch (Harvard, A.B. 1861; M.D. 1868) studied physiology in Leipzig with Carl Ludwig, whose laboratory was the center for physiological study. He returned to Boston in 1871 and taught physiology at the Harvard Medical School; was appointed as first George Higginson Professor of Physiology; and with the establishment of the first physiological laboratory, brought German technological methods to the U.S. He helped in planning the Harvard Medical School and was active in public affairs, includin...

Porter, Charles Burnham, 1840-1909.

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Cohn, Edwin J. (Edwin Joseph), 1892-1953

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Cohn taught physiological chemistry at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Edwin J. Cohn, ca. 1928-1961 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973008 Cohn (University of Chicago, Ph.D., 1917) was chairman of the Dept. of Biophysical Chemistry, Harvard Medical School, director of the University Laboratory of Physical Chemistry Related to Medicine and Public Health, and chairman of the Division of Medical Sciences of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at...

Culver, Perry J., 1915-

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Taft, Annie Elzina.

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Lee, Sidney S., 1921-

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Sidney Seymour Lee (1921-1992), BS, 1942; MD, 1950; DRPH, 1953, Yale University, was Clinical Professor of Hospital and Medical Care Administration at the Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Dean for Hospital Programs at Harvard Medical School. Lee was an adviser to the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Johnson assisting in the drafting the Medicare and Medicare laws for the elderly and poor, and also served as Associate Dean for Community Medic...

Dwight, Thomas, 1843-1911

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Professor of anatomy at Harvard; editor of the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal." From the description of Thomas Dwight letter to Houghton Mifflin & Co. [manuscript], 1884 January 17. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 664829000 Dwight (Harvard, M.D. 1867) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at the Harvard Medical School from 1883 to 1911 and also taught at Bowdoin Medical School in Maine, 1874-1876. During study in Europe, he obtained experience using frozen...

Trimble, Harry Clyde, 1889-1962.

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Trimble (Chicago, Ph.D. 1918) was Edward S. Wood Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School from 1924 to 1955 and special consultant to the dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Harvard University 1956- . His research dealt with carbohydrate metabolism, purine metabolism, and biochemistry in relation to dental problems. From the description of Papers of Harry Clyde Trimble, 1918-1962 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281429823 ...

Southard, Elmer Ernest, 1876-1920

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Southard (Harvard, M.D. 1901) was Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School from 1909 to 1920 and first director of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1912-1920. He had broad theoretical interests in the areas of mental illness and social pathology and instituted the team approach in clinical activities at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. He was skilled in clinical pathology, gross anatomy and histology, and did research work on correlating behaviorial problems with lesions o...

Harvard University. Division of Medical Sciences.

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