Boston Medical Library. Images, ca. 1870-1971.

Medical Library Association.

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Founded on May 2, 1898, by four librarians and four physicians at the suggestion of George M. Gould, M.D., editor of the Philadelphia Medical Journal, the Medical Library Association (MLA) is the second oldest special library association in the United States. Membership was limited to librarians representing medical libraries of not less than 500 volumes and with regular library hours and attendance. The Association of Medical Librarians (as it was known until 1907) was founded "to...

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...

Boston Medical Library (1805-1826)

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Massachusetts medical society

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The Massachusetts Medical Society was founded in 1781. Early members of the society published its transactions and papers presented at meetings; in 1812 they began publishing New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery. In the early 19th century Harvard College and the society agreed that both organizations could examine candidates and award a degree or a certificate of approval, as appropriate. Committees of the society have been active in improving the quality of health care in Massachusetts. ...

Streeter, Edward Clark, -1947

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Edward Clark Streeter was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 10, 1874. He received degrees from Yale University (A.B., 1898) and Northwestern University (M.D., 1901). Streeter studied in Europe and then practiced medicine in Chicago and Boston. He served in France during World War I and joined the faculty of the Harvard Medical School (1921-1933). He also served as visiting professor of the history of medicine at Yale University (1929-1933). Streeter collected extensively in the fields of me...

Garland, Joseph, 1893-

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Joseph Garland, 1893-1973, AB, 1915, Harvard College; MD, 1919, Harvard Medical School, was a pediatrician. He served on the editorial board of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1938 to 1947, and was editor from 1947 to 1967. From the description of Papers, 1910-1972. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79197605 J. Garland was a practicing attorney in Richmond, Virginia. From the description of Letter and judgment : Lynchburg, Virginia to James A. Ca...

Park Street Church (Boston, Mass.)

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Park Street Church gathered 1809; extant in 1996. From the description of Histories, 1845-1847. (American Congregational Association). WorldCat record id: 70948619 Society for Religious Improvement organized in 1804 which led to the gathering of Park Street Church in 1809 in reaction to the Unitarian takeover of other Boston Congregational churches; in 1954 Shawmut Church merged into Park Street; extant as Park Street Church in 1996. From the description of Recor...

Fifield, William Cranch Bond, 1828-1896.

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Fifield (Harvard M.D., 1851; M.R.C.S., England, 1854) practiced in Boston, Mass., and was a surgeon at Boston City Hospital. From the description of Papers of William Cranch Bond Fifield, 1826-1914 (inclusive), 1834-1896 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281427915 ...

Davidson, Charles S. (Charles Sprecher), 1910-2000

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Davidson (McGill, M.D. 1939) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1945 and became William B. Castle Professor of Medicine in 1973. He was associate director of Thorndike Memorial Laboratories from 1963 to 1973 and was associated with the Clinical Research Center at M.I.T. His research was in nutrition, metabolism, and liver diseases. From the description of Papers of Charles Sprecher Davidson, 1949-1983 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281438775 ...

Spector, Benjamin, 1893-1976

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Chadwick, James R. (James Read), 1844-1905

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Chadwick (Harvard, M.D. 1871) assisted in the foundation of the gynecological department of the Boston City Hospital in 1874, taught gynecology at the Harvard Medical School, and was president of the American Gynecological Society. He established the Boston Medical Library in 1875, founded the Harvard Medical Alumni Association in 1890, and served as its first president. He was a collector of medical books and journals. From the description of Papers of James Read Chadwick, 1830-1909...

Warren, Richard, 1907-

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Richard Warren, 1907-1999, AB, Harvard College; MD, Harvard Medical School, was Clinical Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, Chief of Surgery at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in West Roxbury, Mass., and Surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Mass. From the description of Papers, 1930s-1970s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 81360898 ...

Marble, Henry C. (Henry Chase), 1885-

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Henry Chase Marble (1885-1965), MD, 1910, Harvard Medical School, was a surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital where he served as Chief of the MGH Fracture Clinic and the MGH Hand Clinic. Marble specialized in orthopedic surgery and injuries to the hand. Marble served as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Base Hospital No. 6, organized and staffed by MGH, in France during World War I. From the description of Correspondence, 1940s-1960s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 231042...

Farlow, John Woodford, 1853-1937

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Cobb, Darius, 1834-1919

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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...

Brickley, William Joseph, 1873-1965.

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Brickley (Harvard, M.D. 1907) was an associate in legal medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1940 to 1948. He was a medical examiner for Suffolk County, Mass. From the description of Papers of William J. Brickley, 1915-1967 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281433189 ...

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...

Bartol, John Washburn.

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Burrage, Walter L. (Walter Lincoln), 1860-1935

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Colby, Charles Clifton.

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Joslin, Elliott P., 1869-1962

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Joslin (Harvard, M.D. 1895) began teaching at Harvard Medical School in 1898 and was clinical professor of medicine from 1922 to 1937. He was on the staff at New England Deaconess Hospital from its founding in 1897 and was also consulting physician at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston Lying-in, and Boston City Hospital. Noted for his clinical work on diabetes, he established the Diabetes Foundation in 1953 and was active in many organizations involved in study of the disease. He developed an ambulato...

Ingraham, Franc D. (Franc Douglas), 1898-1965

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From 1947 to 1964 Ingraham (Harvard, M.D. 1925) served as Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; Neurosurgeon-in-Chief at the Children's Hospital Medical Center; and neurosurgeon at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Mass. He pioneered in the development of pediatric neurosurgery. From the description of Papers of Franc D. Ingraham, 1943-1945 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281438957 ...

Wesselhoeft, Conrad, 1884-

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Ingelfinger, Franz J. (Franz Josef), 1910-1980

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Franz Josef Ingelfinger, 1910-1980, AB, 1932, Yale University; MD, 1936, Harvard Medical School, Chief of Gastroenterology at Boston University School of Medicine and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital from 1940 to 1967. In 1961, he was appointed Chief of the Fifth and Sixth Services of the Boston University Medical Unit at Boston City Hospital. Ingelfinger served as editor of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1967 to 1977. From the description of Papers, 1954-1980 [1970-1980...

Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903

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Born Boston, graduated Harvard 1854 and served in United States Navy, North Atlantic Squadron during the Civil War. Practiced in Boston for 20 years then moved to Kansas City in 1887. Architect of numerous buildings connected with Harvard, and many public libraries and other public buildings throughout the United States. President of American Institute of Architects in 1898, Court of Honor at Chicago World's Fair, author of Greek Lines and Other Essays as well as numerous papers, and translator ...

Quinby, William Carter

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Cheever, David, 1876-

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Richardson, Edward Peirson, 1918-

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Edward Peirson Richardson, Jr. (1918-1998), AB, 1939, Harvard College; MD, 1943, Harvard Medical School, was Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School, and a neuropathologist at Massachusetts General Hospital where he was the first to describe a number of brain disorders. In 1949, Richardson became assistant to Dr. Charles S. Kubik at Massachusetts General Hospital, whom he succeeded as Chief Neuropathologist in 1951; he was director of the Kubik Laboratory for Neuropathology...

Ballard, James F. (James Francis), 1878-

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James Francis Ballard, 1878-1955, was Director of the Boston Medical Library from 1928 until 1955. Ballard developed the Boston Medical Library Medical Classification, and served as president of the Medical Library Association from 1937 to 1939. From the description of Papers, 1920s-1930s. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 83227133 ...

Friend, Dale Gilbert.

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Allen, Arthur W. (Arthur Wilburn), 1887-

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Bullard, William Norton, 1853-1931.

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Nichols, George (1922- ).

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Nichols (Columbia, M.D. 1945) has taught medicine at the Harvard Medical School since 1962, and served as associate dean for academic affairs, Faculty of Medicine, 1962- His research has been on the causes and therapy of metabolic bone disease. From the description of Papers relating to Citizens' Committee on Mental Health, 1967. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281439218 ...

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...

Sprague, Howard Burnham, 1895-1970.

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Sprague (Harvard, M.D. 1922) was a cardiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and taught clinical medicine at the Harvard Medical School from 1927. He served as president of the American, New England, and Massachusetts Heart Associations, treasurer of the International Cardiology Foundation, and as president of the Boston Medical Library. His scientific papers include clinical reports of cardiac disorders in children and in adults; some also discuss dietary and emotional factors and the prob...

Butler, Charles S. (Charles St. John), 1875-1944

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Charles S. Butler, a native of Tennessee and an admiral in the U.S. Navy, entered the Medical Corps of the Navy in 1900. From the description of Charles S. Butler papers, 1902-1937. WorldCat record id: 39559183 Charles St. John Butler (1875-1944), a native of Tennessee and an admiral in the United States Navy, entered the Medical Corps of the Navy in 1900. From the guide to the Charles S. Butler Papers, 1902-1937, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lib...

Bloomquist, Harold

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Phippen, Walter G., 1876-

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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 ...

Viets, Henry R. (Henry Rouse), 1890-1969

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Henry Rouse Viets was a neurologist, medical historian and faculty member at Harvard Medical School. He studied with William Osler 1916-1917 and was an elected member of the Osler Club of London. From the description of [Collected reprints of Henry Rouse Viets] 1918-1965 (Houston Academy of Medicine, Texas Medical Center). WorldCat record id: 318821118 ...

Proger, Samuel, 1906-

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Esterquest, Ralph Theodore.

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Prince, Morton, 1854-1929

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Prince (Harvard, M.D. 1879) was clinical instructor in diseases of the nervous system at Harvard Medical School from 1895 to 1898 and associate professor of abnormal and dynamic psychology at Harvard College from 1926 to 1928. He studied in Vienna and Strasbourg following graduation from medical school and on beginning practice in Boston was first associated with the Boston Dispensary (1882-1886), then with Boston City Hospital's Neurological Department (1885-1913). He was professor of nervous d...

Holt, Anna C.

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Storer, Malcolm, 1862-

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Numismatist of Boston. From the description of Note, 1909, June 17 : Boston, to Dr. Norton. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359826 ...

Boston Medical Library

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The Boston Medical Library is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1877 to establish and maintain a Library of Medicine and the Allied Sciences, and to promote and advance medical science and education. In 1960, the Boston Medical Library and the Harvard Medical School Library entered into an agreement to combine their collections and administration in one location, the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. From the description of Special events videotapes, 2000-2006. (Harvar...

Churchill, Edward D. (Edward Delos), 1895-1972

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Surgeon. From the description of Reminiscences of Edward Delos Churchill : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309729802 Edward Delos Churchill, 1895-1972, MD, 1920, Harvard Medical School, was John Homans Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, and head of the surgical services at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. During World War II, Churchill served as Surgical Consultant to the North African Campaig...

Monks, George H. (George Howard), 1853-1933

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Rackemann, Francis M. (Francis Minot), 1887-1973

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Rackemann earned his Harvard AB in 1909. From the description of Lecture notes in Zoology 2, second half year, 1907-1908. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074851 From the description of Lecture notes in Hygiene 1, 1906-1907. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074813 From the description of Lecture and reading notes in History 1a, 1905-1906. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074734 From the description of Lecture notes in German...

Brigham, Edwin H. (Edwin Howard), 1840-1926

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