Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson, 1823-1879 (inclusive).

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Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson, 1823-1879 (inclusive).

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Contains Jackson's correspondence, 1828-1873, with his family, and a few letters, 1853-1879, from Oliver Wendell Holmes; notes, ca.1835-1841, on yellow fever; and correspondence, notes, and clippings, 1837-1852, pertaining to Jackson's cases. Also includes bills, 1823-1850, tickets to lectures when he was a student, and resolution issued upon his death.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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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...

Jackson, J. B. S. (John Barnard Swett), 1806-1879

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Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1829) was professor of pathological anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1854, Shattuck Professor of Morbid Anatomy from 1854 to 1879, served as dean from 1853 to 1855, and was also curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum. He studied gross pathological anatomy of diseased organs. From the description of Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson, 1823-1879 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122506378 J.B.S. Jackson was the first...