Records, 1829-1904 (inclusive), 1869-1874 (bulk)

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Records, 1829-1904 (inclusive), 1869-1874 (bulk)

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The records of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine are the product of the administrative activities of the Deans of Harvard Medical School, during the years 1828-1904. The collection consists of correspondence, petitions, reports, financial records, and certificates and chronicles education, administration, and committee activities at Harvard Medical School. Correspondence from Harvard University President Charles Eliot and the Harvard Corporation is contained in the collection, including a letter from Eliot outlining medical education reforms at the institution. Correspondence and petitions relating to the admission of women and blacks, in particular the case of Martin Delany, is included in the collection as well. The collection also contains records relating to the Medical School's relocation to facilities on Boylston Street in Boston, Mass.

2.55 cubic ft. in 4 document boxes, 1 half document box, 1 half legal document box, and 2 flat oversized boxes.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Bowditch, H. P. 1840-1911.

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Channing, Walter, 1786-1876

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Boston physician. From the description of Letter, 1859 Oct. 14, Boston, to Edward W. Hooper. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 261127830 ...

Storer, David Humphreys, 1804-1891

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Jackson, J. B. S. (John Barnard Swett), 1806-1879

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Jackson (Harvard, M.D. 1829) was professor of pathological anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1854, Shattuck Professor of Morbid Anatomy from 1854 to 1879, served as dean from 1853 to 1855, and was also curator of the Warren Anatomical Museum. He studied gross pathological anatomy of diseased organs. From the description of Papers of John Barnard Swett Jackson, 1823-1879 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122506378 J.B.S. Jackson was the first...

Shattuck, George C. (George Cheyne), 1813-1893

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Shattuck (Harvard, M.D. 1835) was professor of clinical medicine at Harvard Medical School from 1855 until 1874, served as dean of the Medical School, and succeeded Oliver Wendell Holmes as visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1849. After graduation from medical school, he went to Paris with his friends H. I. Bowditch, A. Stillé, and Metcalfe to study with Louis. In 1838 he and Stillé read papers which differentiated typhus from typhoid fever before the Paris Society for...

Eliot, Charles William, 1834-1926

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Ellis, Calvin, 1826-1883

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Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885

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Martin Robinson Delany was an African-American abolitionist, journalist, physician, soldier and writer, and arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. Delany is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for Africans." Born as a free person of color in Charles Town, Virginia, now West Virginia (not Charleston, West Virginia) and raised in Chambersburg and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Delany trained as a physician's assistant. During the cholera epidemics of 1833 and 1854 in Pittsbu...