Papers of Frederick Cheever Shattuck, 1866-1928 (inclusive).

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...

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

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Born in Ontario, Canada, Dr. Osler was received his medical from McGill University in 1872. He became Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's first professor of medicine in 1889. Author of The Principles and Practices of Medicine (1892), Osler has been celled the father of psychosomatic medicine and the "most influential physician in history." From the description of Sir William Osler press clippings, 1905-1920. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14312601 ...

Acland, Theodore D. (Theodore Dyke), 1851-1931

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Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940

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Zinsser (Columbia, M.D. 1903) was Charles Wilder Professor of Bacteriology and Immunology at Harvard Medical School from 1935 to 1940, chief of bacteriological services at Children's and Infants' Hospital, and consultant in bacteriology at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Mass. His research included the development of a vaccine for typhus, work on the etiology of rheumatic fever, host response to syphilis, nature of the antigen-antibody reaction, the measurement of virus size, and studies ...

Shattuck, Frederick Cheever, 1847-1929

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1873) was Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard until 1912, overseer of Harvard University from 1913 to 1919, and consulting physician at Massachusetts General Hospital. His professional concerns were tropical medicine, typhoid fever, and industrial medicine. His interest in education led to administrative activities. From 1898 to 1909 he served on the medical school's faculty committee to revise curricula, during which time clinical rotations at Boston hospit...

Harvard Medical School.

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Strong, Richard P. (Richard Pearson), 1872-1948

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Strong (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1897) was chief of the medical department of the General Hospital in Manila (1910-1913) and from 1907 to 1913 taught tropical medicine in the Philippine University's College of Medicine and Surgery, which he helped to organize. In 1913 Strong became the first professor of tropical medicine at Harvard, and between 1913 and 1934 made several expeditions to afflicted areas in South and Central America and Africa to investigate diseases and obtain material for his laborat...

Austin, Cecil Kent, 1857-

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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. ...

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...