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A. Clifford Barger papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c478
Overview: The A. Clifford Barger papers reflect the professional and personal work of Clifford Barger (1917-1996), a research physiologist who spent his career at Harvard Medical School. Barger’s research interests focused on the cardiovascular and renal systems; he was involved in research which did much to elucidate the mechanisms by which sufferers from certain cardiac disorders retain fluids. The collection includes correspondence, publications files, research records, and administrative...

Additional papers of Barbara Seaman, 1933-2008 (inclusive), 1966-2006 (bulk)

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 695; CD-61; DVD-76; T-468; Vt-242
Overview:

Correspondence, letters from readers, press releases, photographs, and writings of Barbara Seaman, feminist, women's health activist, and author.

Additional papers of Ida Sophia Scudder, 1886-1991

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 775; T-215
Overview:

Addenda to the papers (MC 205) of Ida Sophia Scudder, medical missionary and physician.

Additional papers of Mary Steichen Calderone, 1914-1989 (inclusive), 1960-1989 (bulk)

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 622, T-367; MP-11; Phon-53
Overview:

Additional papers of Mary Steichen Calderone, physician and pioneer in the field of sex education, consisting of biographical material, speeches, conference material, correspondence, writings, audiotapes, photographs, clippings, etc.

Additional papers of Mary Steichen Calderone, 1922-1979

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: 73-150--81-M35; T-50
Overview:

Addenda to the papers (179; M-125) of Mary Steichen Calderone, including correspondence, audiovisual materials, etc.

Additional papers of Mary Steichen Calderone, 1954-1983

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: 83-M184; T-138; Vt-7
Overview:

Addenda to the papers (MC 179; M-125) of Mary Steichen Calderone, including correspondence, biographical material, etc.

Additional papers of Mary Steichen Calderone, 1967-1982

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: 82-M129; T-137; Vt-7
Overview:

Addenda to the papers (MC 179; M-125) of Mary Steichen Calderone, including correspondence, photographs, etc.

Additional papers of Mary Ware Dennett, 1892-1945

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 629
Overview:

Correspondence, printed flyers, pamphlets, etc., of Mary Ware Dennett, suffragist, pacifist, artisan and advocate of birth control and sex education.

Additional papers of the Blackwell family, 1851-1972 (inclusive), 1851-1935 (bulk)

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 715
Overview:

Diaries, correspondence, financial records, etc., of the Blackwell family

Additional papers of the Somerville and Howorth family, 1850-1989

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: 591--2008-M37; Vt-6
Overview:

Addenda to the papers (A-50) of the Somerville and Howorth family, including correspondence, clippings, writings, etc.

Albigence Waldo papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: B MS c21
Overview:

The Albigence Waldo papers, 1768-1793 (inclusive), undated, contain correspondence from doctors and patients regarding cases Albigence Waldo (1750-1794) was treating; a manuscript describing his service in the American Revolutionary War; medical observations, prescriptions, and student notes; and medical bills.

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c192
Overview: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene records reflect the activities and development of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene between the early 1900s and the early 2000s, including the 1951 merger of four societies to create the modern Society (the American Academy of Tropical Medicine, the American Foundation for Tropical Medicine, the National Malaria Society, and the Society of Tropical Medicine) and the Society's involvement with other professional medical...

Benjamin Waterhouse papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c16
Overview: The Benjamin Waterhouse papers, 1738-1955 (inclusive), 1778-1837 (bulk), contain correspondence to Waterhouse from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Quincy Adams, Edward Jenner, Sylvanus Fansher, Peter Oliver, and others, frequently about smallpox vaccination; copies of Waterhouse's outgoing correspondence; manuscripts containing notes for lectures he delivered at Harvard Medical School and other places; his writings on medicine and botany; and some correspondence and manuscripts...

Benjamin Waterhouse papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: B MS c10
Overview:

The Benjamin Waterhouse papers, 1797-1829 (inclusive), consist of Waterhouse's (1754-1846) letters to colleagues, including Lyman Spalding (1775-1821), concerning smallpox inoculation and other medical topics. There are also copies of manuscript letters to the Harvard Corporation in which Waterhouse defends himself against allegations he was working against the interests of Harvard Medical School.

Letters of Elizabeth Blackwell, 1857-1900

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: A/B632e1a
Overview:

Transcripts of letters from Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States, to Mrs. William Elder and to Dr. Gertrude Walker, recording secretary of the alumnae association of the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Papers of Elizabeth Blackwell, undated

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: A/B632e1c
Overview:

Flyer announcing two lectures by Elizabeth Blackwell and her sister Emily, the first and third women to earn medical degrees in the United States.

Signature of Elizabeth Blackwell, undated

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: A/B632e1b
Overview:

Signature of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.

Boston Medical Library images

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: RG M-CL02, Series 00096, 00097, 00098, 00100
Overview:

This finding aid describes photographs, negatives, slides, and photomechanical prints of Boston Medical Library officers, librarians, members, events, library materials, and buildings.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: BWH c1
Overview:

The Brigham and Women’s Hospital records are the product of the hospital’s administrative, fundraising, publication, and public relations activities, the bulk of which cover the years 1980 through 2000. The collection is open-ended and new records are added as they are acquired.

C. Miller Fisher papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c230
Overview:

Records in this collection were created by Charles Miller Fisher during his practice as a neurologist in Montreal, Canada, and Boston, Massachusetts. The collection includes patient notes and records, research notes, manuscript drafts, X-rays, slides, photographs, and memorabilia. Topics in the collection include dementia, transient ischemic attack, normal pressure hydrocephalus, transient monocular blindness, stroke, hemiplegia, headache, vasospasm, and arterial dissection.

Cambridge Medical Improvement Society Centennial Dinner Meeting program, 9 May 1968

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection — Box: Small Collections 01Identifier: H MS c555
Content Description:

Two 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.

Carl W. Walter papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c150
Overview:

Records in the Carl W. Walter Papers were created by Walter during the course of his career as a medical researcher, founder of Fenwal Laboratories, and member of the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, faculty. The collection includes: correspondence, photographs, film reels, speeches, meeting minutes, notebooks, and research files.

Carola Eisenberg papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c254
Overview:

Carola Eisenberg (born 1917), psychiatrist and medical educator, served as Dean for Student Affairs at both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1972-1978; the first woman to hold that position) and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (1978-1990). The Carola Eisenberg papers consist of Eisenberg's lectures pertaining to the role of women in medicine, her letters of recommendation, and assorted personal papers.

Papers of Nancy L. Caroline, 1905-2007

FOUND IN: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Collection Identifier: MC 531; Vt-139; DVD-2
Overview:

Papers of Dr. Nancy Caroline, pioneer in the training of paramedics and emergency medical technicians. Caroline worked in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in Israel and Africa.

Charles Wild papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: B MS c116
Overview:

The collection consists of records created and collected by Charles Wild during his practice as a homeopathic physician in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts, during the first half of the nineteenth century. The collection also includes records created by one of Wild’s sons, Edward, who shared his father’s medical practice.

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