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American Academy of Dental Science records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c512
Overview:

The American Academy of Dental Science records reflect the work and administration of the Academy, founded 1867 in Boston, Massachusetts, as a professional organization for dentists. Records include correspondence, member photographs, membership ledgers, and minute books including notes from meetings through the nineteenth century into the 1960s.

Asa Whitcomb letter to Dr. David Townsend, 17 July 1776.

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Item — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c489
Content Description:

Original 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.

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...

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.

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.

Clarence J. Blake papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c607
Overview:

Consists of correspondence to and from Blake, notebooks relating to the work done with Alexander Graham Bell, and biographical materials relating to Clarence John Blake and the Blake family, including drafted chapters of a biography of Blake and excerpts from Blake’s speeches, writings, and letters.

D. DeForrest Douglass papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c531
Overview:

The papers consist of correspondence and financial documentation reflecting the family life and professional work of Darwin DeForrest Douglass, an artificial limb designer and maker.

Dennis L. Kasper papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c404
Overview: The Dennis L. Kasper papers, 1971-2013, are the product of Kasper’s professional, research, and publishing activities throughout his career. The papers are arranged in six series: I. Correspondence files, 1976-2012, undated; II. Research records, 1971-2012, undated; III. Professional activities records, 1977-2013, undated; IV. Administrative records, 1973-2010, undated; V. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine records, 1991-2011; and VI. Writings and...

Eva Neer papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c391
Overview: The Eva Neer papers, 1960-2000 (inclusive), 1980-1999 (bulk) consist of records created and collected by Eva Neer (1937-2000) throughout the course of her career as a researcher in biochemistry and cytology. Neer held positions at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Biochemistry and at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the cardiovascular division. Together with David Clapham, she was responsible for the discovery of which G protein α subunit activated the ion channel responsible for...

Francis Weld Peabody letters to his father

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c649
Content Description:

Accession 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.

Frederick P. Li papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c616
Overview:

The Frederick P. Li papers, 1961-2016 (inclusive), are the product of Li’s research and professional activities during his education and career at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute as Head of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Control, the Harvard School of Public Heath as Professor of Clinical Cancer Epidemiology, and the National Cancer Institute as Head of the Clinical Studies Section of the Clinical Epidemiology Branch.

Hall Jackson papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c14
Overview:

The Hall Jackson papers, 1771-1810 (inclusive), undated, principally consist of correspondence from Hall Jackson (1739-1797) between 1771 and 1790 to his patients and other physicians regarding medical cases and remedies. There is also a small number of nineteenth century records generated by Dr. William Perry (1788-1887), a Harvard College and Harvard Medical School graduate who was in possession of the Jackson papers.

Harold Amos papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c476
Overview: The Harold Amos papers, 1951-2003, are the product of Amos’s professional, research, and teaching activities throughout his career. Amos is known for his research into bacterial metabolism and animal and bacterial virology, including the use of bacterial RNA to program higher cell protein synthesis, enzyme inductions, insulin, serum, temperature effects, ribosomes, phosphoproteins, RNA metabolism, as well as glucose starvation and glycerol and hexose metabolism. The papers are arranged in...

Harvard-MIT School of Public Health. Department of Industrial Hygiene executive administrative files

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: P-DT11, Series 00908
Overview:

The Harvard-MIT School of Public Health Department of Industrial Hygiene executive administrative files, 1915-1982 (inclusive), 1915-1934 (bulk), are the product of departmental activities, especially relating to the founding of the department around 1922.

Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Maternal and Child Health executive administration files

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: 00872
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Department of Maternal and Child Health executive administration files, 1914-1976 (inclusive), 1944-1976 (bulk), are the product of departmental activities. Files include correspondence, subject files, and reprints.

Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Physiology records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: P-DT12, Series 00851, 00871
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Department of Physiology records, 1917-1956 (inclusive), are the product of departmental activities. The bulk of the materials were created by Cecil K. Drinker in the course of his duties as Chair of the Department of Physiology.

Harvard School of Public Health. Department of Tropical Medicine program establishment, management and review records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: P-DT14, Series 00852
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Department of Tropical Medicine program establishment, management and review records are the product of the founding and early development of the department, including its origin within Harvard Medical School as the Harvard School of Tropical Medicine.

Harvard School of Public Health. Office of the Dean records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: P-DE01, Series 00322
Overview:

The Harvard School of Public Health Office of the Dean executive administrative files, 1913-1996 (inclusive) are the product of the administrative activities of Deans’ offices through the history of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Henry Pickering Bowditch papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c5
Overview:

H. P. (Henry Pickering) Bowditch (1840-1911) established the first physiological laboratory at Harvard Medical School and taught at the school for 35 years. The collection consists mainly of correspondence but also includes family research records, personal papers including military records, lectures, writings, and manuscript materials.

Hyman Morrison papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c339
Overview:

The Hyman Morrison papers (1899-1970) consist of personal and professional correspondence, records of research activity, and miscellaneous records from the career of Hyman Morrison as a physician, an active member of the Boston, Massachusetts Jewish and medical communities, and a medical historian.

James Jackson Putnam papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c4
Overview: The James Jackson Putnam papers consist of records either created or collected by Putnam during his life or collected by his widow, Marian Cabot Putnam, after his death. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, most of it either from or to James Jackson Putnam. Correspondents include members of the Putnam, Morse, Shattuck, Cabot, and Jackson families as well as Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Carl Jung, Boris Sidis, and Morton Prince, among other medical colleagues in the United States and...

Jeffries Wyman papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c12
Overview: The Jeffries Wyman papers, 1826-1936 (inclusive), 1849-1874 (bulk) are the product of Wyman's research, teaching, professional, and publishing activities throughout his career as a naturalist and scientific researcher with positions as the Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; curator of what is now the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University; curator of the Lowell Institute, Boston; and as a professor of anatomy and...

John B. Little papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c302
Overview: Records in the collection were created or collected by John B. Little during the course of his professional and research activities at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital. Record types include correspondence, reports, grant applications, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, meeting minutes, agendas, photographs, contact sheets, negatives, slides, 3.5” and 5.5” diskettes, and X-rays. Topics include student activism at Harvard during the...

John E. Hoopes papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c407
Overview: The John E. Hoopes papers, 1940-2012 (inclusive) are the product of Hoopes's professional, research, writing, teaching, and administrative activities throughout his career. The materials result from his time as an Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery and later Chairman, Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and founding Chairman of the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic as well as the Chairman, Plastic Surgery Division, Washington University School of Medicine,...

John W. Vinson papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c479
Overview:

The John William Vinson papers, 1923-1979 (inclusive), 1961-1979 (bulk), are the product of Vinson’s research and professional activities during his career at Harvard School of Public Health (now Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) as Associate Professor of Microbiology.

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