Papers, 1785-1915.

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Papers, 1785-1915.

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Physician, of Boston, Mass. Putnam's correspondence with his family during his study of medicine in Europe (1869-70) and other letters from his family and associates, notably Oliver Wendell Holmes (1881). Putnam family papers include family correspondence of Dr. Charles Gideon Putnam and his wife, Elizabeth Cabot Jackson Putnam, papers (1804-34) of her father, Dr. James Jackson, some (1804-06) relating to the Massachusetts Medical Society, and letters from Tracy Jackson Putnam to his mother describing activities while serving in the ambulance service during World War I. The collection includes Washburn family correspondence (1866-1879) and letters of William T. Washburn. Of interest is a vivid eyewitness account of the Battle of Ball's Bluff (1861), Leesburg, Virginia contained in a letter from Caspar Crowninshield to his mother.

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Putnam family

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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, James, 1777-1867

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U.S. surgeon, physician and professor at Harvard Medical School. From the description of Notes from lectures delivered by James Jackson, MD, professor of theory and practice of physic, and John C. Warren, MD, professor of anatomy and surgery, at Harvard University, 1827-28 / taken by Stephen Bates. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31931557 Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1809) was Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic at Harvard Medical School from 1812 to 1836 ...

Putnam, Charles Gideon.

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Putnam, Charles P. (Charles Pickering), 1844-1914

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Crowninshield, Caspar.

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Putnam, Elizabeth Cabot, 1836-

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Putnam, Tracy Jackson, 1894-1975

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Physician and researcher; co-discoverer with H. Houston Merritt of the nonsedative anticonvulsant, diphenyl hydantoin (Dilantin; Parke-Davis), in 1938; neurological surgeon in private practice in Beverly Hills and at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, Ca. from 1947 to 1975. From the description of Tracy Jackson Putnam, M.D. collection, 1938-1975. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 27126806 ...

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. ...

Washburn, William T.

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Washburn family.

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