Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine Interiors. Images, ca. 1962-1998.

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...

Sosman, Merrill Clary, 1890-1959.

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Sosman (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1917; Harvard, Hon.A.M. 1949) was roentgenologist-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1922 to 1956 and professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School. After retirement from these positions he served as consultant in radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was a leader in diagnosis by X-ray. He was the first to describe intracardiac calcification as determined by X-ray, and he formulated a radiological treatment for pituitary tumors. From...

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 ...

Mayer, Jean, 1920-

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Mayer (1920- ) (Yale, Ph.D. 1948) taught nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1950 to 1976, when he became president of Tufts University. He chaired the 1969 White House Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Health and served as consultant on nutrition to various countries. He has lectured extensively and written articles and books. His research has dealt primarily with the brain mechanism regulating hunger and food intake and with experimental and clinical obesity. Fro...

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 ...

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...

Esterquest, Ralph Theodore.

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Bloomquist, Harold

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Mendelsohn, Everett

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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...

Colby, Charles Clifton.

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Bigelow, Henry Jacob, 1818-1890

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Surgeon of Boston, Massachusetts. From the description of Henry Jacob Bigelow note, undated, [Boston]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 34847379 Bigelow (Harvard, M.D. 1841) taught surgery at Harvard Medical School from 1849 until 1882, and was appointed visiting surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 from which he resigned in 1886. Bigelow was the leading surgeon in New England during his lifetime, the first in the U.S. to excise the hip joint, and know...

Aesculapian Club.

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Stubbins Associates

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Aesculapius (Greek deity)

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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 ...

Hinckley, Robert C., 1853-1941

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Portrait painter; Washington, D.C. Born in Boston, Massachusetts. Hinckley studied art in Paris with Carolus-Duran and Bonnat from 1864 to 1884, graduating from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Establishing a studio in Washington, D.C. in 1884, he painted portraits of eminent Americans. Hinckley also instructed the portrait class at the Corcoran Art School for six years. From the description of Robert Hinckley photograph, [ca. 1890s]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: ...

Lahey, Frank Howard, 1880-

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Minot, James Jackson, 1852-1938.

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Minot (Harvard, M.D. 1878) was a physician at the Boston Dispensary, Carney Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Best known for his work in the prevention and care of tuberculosis, he was one of the founders of the Boston Tuberculosis Association. From the description of Lecture notes taken by James Jackson Minot, 1878-1880 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281435048 James Jackson Minot, 1852-1938, AB, 1874, Harvard College; MD, 1878, Harvard Me...

Cattani, Antonio.

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Little, Bertram K., 1899-1993

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Spurzheim, J. G. (Johann Gaspar), 1776-1832

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German phrenologist. From the description of Note, undated [before 1832]. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35359621 George Combe was a phrenologist. From the guide to the George Combe Papers, [ca. 1822-1836], Circa 1822-1836, (American Philosophical Society) Spurzheim (Vienna, M.D. 1813) never practiced medicine but collaborated with Franz Joseph Gall between 1800 and 1813 on neuroanatomical research from which phrenology was conceived as a system ...

Wolfe, Richard J.

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Richard J. Wolfe was the curator of rare books and manuscripts in The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard University and the Joseph Garland Librarian of the Boston Medical Library. He has written on the subjects of early American music publishing, nineteenth-century color printing, the book arts, and marbled paper. He is the author of Marbled paper, its history, techniques and patterns (1990). Paul McKenna is the author of A History and bibliography of...

Smith, Franklin D.

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Drinker, Philip (1893- ).

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