Papers of James Howard Means, 1914-1965 (bulk).

Means, James Howard, 1885-1967

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Means (Harvard, M.D. 1911) was Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard from 1932 to 1951, acting dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1946, and chief of medical services at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1924 to 1951. He established the first thyroid clinic in Boston in 1920 and introduced the use of radioactive iodine as a valuable diagnostic aid in the treatment of thyroid disorders in 1941. Means resigned from the American Medical Association in 1951 because he felt its attitude ...

Krogh, August, 1874-1949

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Edsall, David Linn, 1869-1945

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Edsall (1869-1945) (University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1893) was dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1918 to 1935 and dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from its beginnings in 1921 to 1935. Following graduation from medical school, he worked for four years in a hospital laboratory, then began teaching at University of Pennsylvania (1899-1911) and Washington University in St. Louis (1911-1912); he came to Harvard as the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine (1912-1923). His deanship, ...

Minot, George Richards, 1885-1950

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George Richards Minot (1885-1950), AB, 1908, Harvard College; MD, 1912, Harvard Medical School, was a hematologist and Director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital. Minot was also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focused on blood and nutrition, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1934 for discovering that liver extract cured pernicious anemia. From the description of Papers, 1891-1951. (Harvard Universi...

Drinker, Cecil Kent, 1887-1956

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Drinker taught physiology and served as Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. From the description of Papers of Cecil Kent Drinker, 1920-1949 (inclusive), 1936-1949 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973019 Cecil Kent Drinker (1887-1956) was the Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from 1936 to 1948, and a physiologist at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Drinker's research focused on the lymphatic system, tissue f...

White, Paul Dudley, 1886-1973

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White (1886-1973) (Harvard, M.D. 1911) was clinical professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, 1940-1950, and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass., 1911-1950. One of the early specialists in cardiology, White introduced the first electrocardiograph to Boston in 1914, and was one of the three physicians after whom the W.P.W. Syndrome was named. White's book Heart Disease (1931) established his reputation as a leading cardiologist. From the description ...

Salter, William Thomas, 1901-1952

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Harvard Medical School. Dept. of Medicine.

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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 ...

Washburn, Frederic Augustus, 1869-

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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...

Du Bois, Eugene F. (Eugene Floyd), 1882-1959

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Massachusetts General Hospital. Thyroid Clinic

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