Medical reform in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920: Richard C. Cabot Science & Learning, Healing & Practice, c. 2000.

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Medical reform in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920: Richard C. Cabot Science & Learning, Healing & Practice, c. 2000.

Includes thirteen posters from the Medical Reform in the Porgressive Era, 1900-1920: Richard C. Cabot, Science & Learning, Healing & Practice, exhibit at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2000. This poster series celebrated the opening of a new ambulatary care center of the Massachusetts General Hospital, the 200th anniversary of Harvard Medical School, and 75 years of medical social work.

13 posters in 1 oversized folder.

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Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939

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Richard Clarke Cabot, 1868-1939, AB, 1889, Harvard College; MD, 1892, Harvard Medical School, was Professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics at Harvard. Cabot led the teaching of Social Ethics at Harvard from 1920 to 1934. Cabot also served as one of two chiefs of staff at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1912 until his retirement in 1921. Cabot established medical social work at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1905, and also introduced autopsy teaching at the institution; Cabot's cli...

Massachusetts general hospital

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Dr. James Jackson and Dr. John C. Warren initially sought funds for a hospital in Boston, Mass. which would also be made available to student s of the Harvard Medical School for clinical training. It was incorporated in 1811 as Massachusetts General Hospital, and in 1817 Jackson and Warren were appointed as acting physician and surgeon, respectively. The first patients were admitted in 1821. McLean Hospital was chartered in 1811 and opened in 1818 as the psychiatric facility of Massachusetts Gen...