Papers of Henry Asbury Christian, 1896-1951 (inclusive).

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Papers of Henry Asbury Christian, 1896-1951 (inclusive).

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Contains 13 volumes of letterbooks and correspondence, including letters, 1912-1944, from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital staff to Christian and correspondence, 1910-1939, between Christian and Harvey Cushing, H. B. Howard, J. B. Howland, and hospital trustees. Also 23 scrapbooks with letters to Christian, clippings, photographs, and programs, dating from 1891 to 1951. Other materials include transcripts of amphitheatre clinics in medicine given at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1914 to 1926; typescripts of lectures, 1909-1928, to Harvard Medical School students; hospital medical staff notes on medical travels in Europe, 1912; and Christian's diplomas. Correspondence documents the organization and operation of the Brigham Hospital and beginnings of the American Federation for Clinical Research.

51 v. and 1 oversize portfolio.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

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Harvey Williams Cushing was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 8, 1869. He graduated from Yale College in 1891 and in 1895 received his M.D. and A.M. degrees from the Harvard Medical School. He served on the staff of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital from 1901 to 1912, where he devoted himself to neurological surgery. In 1912 he was appointed professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and in 1913 surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, posts which he held until 1932. During W...

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital

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Christian, Henry A. (Henry Asbury), 1876-1951

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Civil War corporal, 35th New York Infantry, Company A, 1861-1863. From the description of Document, 1863 June 5. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287268 Christian (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1900; Harvard, A.M. 1903) held the Hershey Chair of Theory and Practice of Physic and served as Dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1908 to 1912. He was also physician-in-chief at Carney Hospital from 1907 to 1912 and at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1910 to ...

Howland, Joseph Briggs 1873-1963.

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Howard, Herbert Burr 1855-1923.

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Harvard Medical School.

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American Federation for Clinical Research.

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