Papers, 1851-1955, n.d.

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Papers, 1851-1955, n.d.

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Contains correspondence, reports, research notes, writings, and photographs, from Porter's administrative, teaching, and research activities at Harvard Medical School. Includes correspondence, printed reports and notices, and sketches of equipment from his administrative activities at the Harvard Apparatus Company; correspondence, writings, drawings, notes, and photographs resulting from Porter's research activities on the heart at St. Louis Medical College and in Germany during the 1880s-1890s; Porter's correspondence with professional organizations; and his personal and family correspondence, photographs, daguerreotypes, and glass negatives.

3.3 cubic ft. in 2 record cartons, 2 document boxes,a1 half document box, 1 flat document box.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard Medical School. Dept. of Physiology.

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Porter, William Townsend, 1862-1949

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William Townsend Porter (1862-1949) was Professor of Comparative Physiology at Harvard Medical School, where he conducted research on the heart, and on the growth and development of schoolchildren. After serving on the faculty of St. Louis Medical College (1887-1893), Porter came to Harvard Medical School to reorganize the teaching of physiology and to introduce student laboratory equipment for his courses, which he made available to other medical programs through a non-profit organization he cr...

Harvard Apparatus Company.

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