Papers, 1918-1974.

Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital.

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Hardy, Harriet Louise, 1906-

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See finding aid for Harriet Louise Hardy Papers, MC 387. From the guide to the Papers, 1935-1994, (Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute) Physician and specialist in occupational medicine, Harriet Louise Hardy was born on September 23, 1906, in Arlington, Massachusetts. Her father, Horace Dexter Hardy, a lawyer, died of pneumonia when HLH was four. Her mother, Harriet Louise (Decker) Hardy, married engineer Charles Maxwell Sears in 1912. HLH grad...

Roof, Betty S., 1926-

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Cannon, Walter B. (Walter Bradford), 1871-1945

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Walter Bradford Cannon (Harvard, A.B. 1896; A.M. 1897; M.D. 1900; Honorary Sc.D. 1937) taught physiology at Harvard and was George Higginson Professor of Physiology and Chairman of the Department. He was innovative in both research and medical education. In 1900 he adapted the case system for teaching medicine. His scientific research includes studies on the digestive tract and experiments on the denervated heart and his contributions include the concept of homeostasis and the discovery of the t...

Aub, Joseph C. (Joseph Charles), 1890-

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Joseph Charles Aub : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122419217 Joseph C. Aub (1890-1973), BS, 1911, Harvard University; MD, 1914, Harvard Medical School, was Professor of Research Medicine at Harvard Medical School and an endocrinologist at the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. Aub contributed to the development o...

Benison, Saul.

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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...

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, ...

Hunter, Donald, 1898-1978

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Berry, George Packer

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Berry (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1925) was a bacteriologist whose research interests are in the fields of immunology and virology. As dean of the Harvard Medical School (1949-1965), professor of bacteriology at Harvard, and past president of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), he has done much to shape the quality of medical education. He also unified the Harvard Medical School and its private teaching hospitals into one corporate organization, the Harvard Medical Center, and served a...

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...

Bauer, Walter, 1898-

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Walter Bauer (1898-1963) was a rheumatologist and Chief of Medical Services at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was also Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Bauer's research focused on diseases affecting human bone joints and connective tissue. He defined rheumatoid arthritis as a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the whole body, and defined arthritis as a disease that affects the whole body, and developed the use of hormonal therapies for treatment. ...

Cocoanut Grove (Boston, Mass.)

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Cobb, Stanley, 1887-1968

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Stanley Cobb, 1887-1968, MD, 1914, Harvard Medical School, was Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School; Cobb taught neurology at Harvard Medical School from 1919 to 1954. Cobb served as Chief of the Neurology Service at Boston City Hospital from 1925 until 1934 when he was appointed Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, a position he held until his retirement in 1954. During a trip to Europe, 1924-1925, as a Rockefeller Fellow, he made a wide range of profe...

City of Hope Cancer Research Center

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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 ...

Cowdry, E.V. (Edmund Vincent), 1888-1975

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Anatomist and Pathologist. Professor of Cytology, 1928-1941 and Professor of Anatomy 1941-1950 at Washington University, School of Medicine, Director of Research, Bernard Free Skin and Cancer Hospital 1939-1948. Director of Wernse Cancer Research Laboratory at Washington University, School of Medicine, 1950-1960. From the description of E. V. Cowdry papers, 1909-1975. 1909-1975. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 10650264 George Washington Corner worke...

Bowditch, Manfred.

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