Papers, 1788-1960.

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Papers, 1788-1960.

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Contains correspondence with colleagues and Harvard Medical School administrators and meeting minutes about subjects including teaching appointments, curriculum planning, and research describing Ayer's teaching and administrative activities at Harvard Medical School. Correspondence with colleagues and patients document his clinical activities, and the limits of treating patients with neurological disorders. Writings document his research on human cerebrospinal fluid. The collection also contains journals, financial ledgers, medical notes, and correspondence about his father, James Bourne Ayer, 1849-1910, AB, Harvard College, and MD, 1873, Harvard Medical School, who specialized in nervous disorders, and his grandfather, James Ayer, 1815-1891, who was also a physician in Boston, Mass., and the Ayer family.

3.5 cubic ft. in 3 records cartons, 1 document boxes, 1 half legal document box.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Ayer, James Bourne, 1882-1963.

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James Bourne Ayer (1882-1963), AB, 1903, Harvard College; MD, 1907, Harvard Medical School, was James Jackson Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Chief of Neruology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Ayer developed the cisternal puncture during World War I and invented a tool for measuring cerebrospinal fluid. His research included work on multiple sclerosis and spinal subarachnoid block. From the description of Papers, 1788-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat recor...

Ayer, James Bourne, 1849-1910

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James Bourne Ayer (1849-1910) was a physician in Boston, Mass. After graduating from Harvard in 1869, he graduated from its Medical School in 1873. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society and the New England Historic Genealogical Society. He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1908. Ayer was born in Boston on 6 January 1849. He maried Martha Bourne, daughter of Benjamin Bourne; they had four children. He married, second, on 4 April 18...

Ayer, James, 1815-1891

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Massachusetts General Hospital. Dept. of Neurology.

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Harvard Medical School.

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