Subseries: Peter Bent Brigham Hospital., 1923.

The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital is established in 1911 "for the care of sick persons in indigent circumstances" with a bequest from restauranteur and real estate baron Peter Bent Brigham. In1926, Drs. William Murphy, George Whipple and George Minot discoved that liver extracts cure pernicious anemia, for which they were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934. In 1929, the first polio victim was saved using the newly developed Drinker Respirator (iron lung) at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in collaboration with Children's Hospital Medical Center and the Harvard School of Public Health. In 1954 the first successful human organ transplant, a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to another, was accomplished by Joseph Murray, MD, at PBBH. In1980 PBBH merged with the Boston Hospital for Women and the Robert Breck Brigham Hospital to become the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.