Box Small Manuscript Collections 01
Contains 25 Results:
John H.T. McPherson, Jr. letter describing the treatment of Cocoanut Grove fire victims at Boston City Hospital
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c480Letter dated 30 November 1942 from John H.T. McPherson, Jr. to friends and family describing treatment of burn victims at Boston City Hospital in the aftermath of the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire on November 28, 1942. 2 pages, typescript.
Cambridge Medical Improvement Society Centennial Dinner Meeting program, 9 May 1968
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c555Two copies of the program from the Centennial Dinner Meeting of the Cambridge Medical Improvement Society, held in Boston, Massachusetts on May 9, 1968. One copy is autographed by guest speakers Paul Dudley White and Christiaan N. Barnard.
Letter from Sir James Paget to unknown recipient, 8 November 1872
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c498Letter from James Paget, 8 November 1872, to an unknown recipient confirming a meeting at 58 Eaton Place, London, England, for the following day.
Letter from Sir Astley Cooper to Reverend Dr. Burney, circa 1812
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c495Undated letter, probably circa 1812, from Sir Astley Cooper addressed to The Reverend Dr. Burney of Greenwich [England], probably Charles Burney Jr (1757-1817), declining an invitation to dinner. Accompanied by a handwritten transcription of the letter created by Gerald Shklar.
Albert M. Grass correspondence regarding electroencephalogram (EEG) machines
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c518Correspondence created and collected by Albert M. Grass regarding six- and eight-channel electroencephalograph (EEG) machines manufactured by the Grass Instrument Company and used in the Harvard Medical School Department of Neurology and The Neurological Institute of Children's Medical Center (now Boston Children's Hospital) for the study and diagnosis of epilepsy.
William Henry Porter papers
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c521Raquel E. Cohen papers Digital
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c545Letters to Judith Kruger from Robert E. Gross and David Halbersleben
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c520Letter from Benjamin Alexander to Dr. Wessler regarding Beth Israel Hospital Medical Senior Staff Dinner
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c5021 page letter from Benjamin Alexander inviting Dr. Wessler to attend the Beth Israel Hospital Medical Senior Staff Dinner and detailing the agenda for that meeting.
Roche Laboratories pamphlet series "The Story of Psychosomatic Medicine"
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c557Walter Babcock Swift student notes on autopsy protocols
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c490Two volumes titled "Autopsy Protocols," one unaltered and the other inscribed by Harvard Medical School student W. B. Swift and containing Swift's notes on autopsies performed between October and December 1903 at several Boston hospitals.
Asa Whitcomb letter to Dr. David Townsend, 17 July 1776.
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c489Original and two copies of a July 1776 letter from Colonel Asa Whitcomb to Dr. David Townsend regarding the inoculation of Whitcomb's regiment, presumably against smallpox.
Albert Jones Bellows carte de visite, circa 1868
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c491Carte de visite of Albert Jones Bellows, M.D., taken at the studio of James Wallace Black, 163 Washington St., Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1868. Pencil inscription on reverse reads, "Dr. Bellows, Roxbury, Mass."
Howard Stanley Yaffee anatomy lecture notes
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c586Consists of one bound notebook labeled "Anatomy Lectures" containing notes taken by Howard Yaffee while attending lectures in gross anatomy and neuroanatomy at Harvard Medical School between 1947 and 1948; lecture schedules are stapled at the front of the volume.
Howard A. Naquin letter to Henry Moorman describing his experience on D-Day
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c585Consists of one letter written on June 11, 1944, from Howard A. Naquin to his former Harvard Medical School classmate, Henry Dean "Hank" Moorman, describing his experience aboard a United States military ship off the coast of France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
Mark Clement draft writing titled "The Medical Treatment of Cancer: Introduction"
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c590Consists of a typed draft of The Medical Treatment of Cancer: Introduction,
written by Mark Clement on 06 November 1937 in Hampstead, London, England. The manuscript describes the problem of cancer and the available treatments, and proposes dietary and medical treatments. The rest of the work is outlined following the Introduction.
Letter from Ellen L. Moyle to Dr. C. I. Miller
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c589Letter from Ellen Moyle to C. I. Miller, a doctor, describing her symptoms and requesting that he send something for her to take, since it is "inconvenient" for her to travel to Whitewater, Wisconsin. Letter is written from La Grange, Wisconsin on 06 May 1895. With envelope.
Harold B. Haley correspondence with Francis D. Moore
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c429Letters written between Harold B. Haley and Francis D. Moore; three letters from Moore dated 1956, 1977 and 1978; two letters by Haley, dated 1977 and 1978. The letters discuss aspects of the surgical program at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and topics in medical history.
Robert Latou Dickinson illustrations of female pelvic and reproductive organs for Tampax Incorporated
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c4148.5 inch x 11 inch double-sided, laminated, color teaching illustration of the female pelvic organs and female reproductive organs. Item belonged to obstetrician-gynecologist Joseph J. Weyer (1908-1994) who practiced in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Illustrations were prepared by Robert Latou Dickinson (1861-1950) and published by the Educational Department, Tampax Incorporated, New York, New York (undated).
Joyce E. Monac photographs of the Department of Environmental Health
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c62113 photographs created and collected by Joyce Monac featuring scientists from China visiting the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in the mid-1970s. Jack Spengler and Doug Dockery are identifiable faculty in the photographs.
Francis Weld Peabody letters to his father
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c649Accession consists of thirteen letters and one enclosure written from Francis Weld Peabody (1881-1927) to his father during Peabody's time serving in World War I. Most are sent from Neufchâteau, France. Letters describe Peabody's experience traveling to Europe, his illness with influenza, and experience working in a field hospital. The letters--most of which are handwritten--are accompanied by typed transcripts.
David Steinmuller correspondence with Joseph E. Murray
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c578Consists of correspondence between David Steinmuller and Joseph E. Murray dated between 1996 and 1998. The letters are about Steinmuller's review article on skin and organ transplantation (allografts, or grafts from same-species donors). Includes a reprint of Steinmuller's article, The Enigma of Skin Allograft Rejection, from Transplantation Reviews, Vol. 12, No 1 (January), 1998, pp. 42-57.
Henry Dean Moorman letter describing his experience at Boston City Hospital following the Cocoanut Grove Fire
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c584Consists of a handwritten letter from Henry Dean "Hank" Moorman, Jr. to his parents describing his experience at the Boston City Hospital on the morning following the Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire in November of 1942. Moorman was a Harvard Medical School student at the time of the fire and was likely serving as an intern at the Boston City Hospital.
Letter from John Warren to William Eustis regarding an opening at the Boston Marine Hospital Digital
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c430Two page letter from John Warren (1753-1815) to Secretary of War William Eustis (1753-1825) regarding an opening at the Navy's Boston Marine Hospital. Warren remarks that he hopes that the new appointee would employ favorable teaching conditions for the faculty and students of the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts and writes to support his son, John Collins Warren (1778-1856), as a possible candidate.
Charles Barber Mueller research records
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c453Consists of records related to research on phosphorous and red blood cells conducted by Charles Barber Mueller during his Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Biochemistry at Harvard Medical School in 1947. This research resulted in two 1951 publications in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, co-authored by Mueller and A. Baird Hastings: "The Rate of Transfer of Phosphorus Across the Red Blood Cell Membrane" and "Glycolysis and Phosphate Fractions of Red Blood Cells."