Papers, 1911-1961 (inclusive), 1912-1919 (bulk).

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Papers, 1911-1961 (inclusive), 1912-1919 (bulk).

This collection consists mainly of Howard's letters to her parents while she was a student at Johns Hopkins University Medical School and resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She describes courses and exams, professors, clinical work, social life, relations with fellow students, male and female, her health, the impact of World War I on medicine, and her reponsibilities as a resident and house officer. Also included are letters to Howard's mother from other family members and photocopies of Wellesley College reunion records, 1916-1961.

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Howard, Margaret Emily Pagelson.

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Margaret Emily Pagelson Howard was a physician who during the middle of the 1880s assisted in the maternity ward of the State Almshouse, Tewksbury, Massachusetts. There she met Dr. Herbert Burr Howard (1855-1923), who served as assistant physician (1884-1885, 1887-1891) and then as superintendent (1891-1897). They were married on October 1, 1886, and had two children: Charles Pagelson Howard (1887-1966) and Dr. Sarah Ernestine Howard (1892-1942). From the description of Speeches of M...

Johns Hopkins Hospital.

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Howard, Sarah Ernestine, 1892-1942.

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Physician, Howard grew up in a medical family. Her mother, Margaret Emily (Pagelson) Howard, was a physician and her father, Herbert B. Howard, was director of the Massachusetts General Hospital and the first director of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Howard was graduated from Wellesley College in 1911 and entered Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1913. She was House Officer and Assistant in Medicine, 1917-1919, and was an intern at MGH, 1919-1921. From the description of Papers, 191...

Johns Hopkins University. School of Medicine.

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Howard family.

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Wellesley College

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