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Frederic Thomas Lewis papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c241
Overview:

The Frederic Thomas Lewis Papers, 1663, 1711-1951, document the research, teaching, and professional activities of Frederic Thomas Lewis, James Stillman Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Harvard Medical School.

Frederick Irving retirement celebration records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection — Box: 01Identifier: H MS c382
Scope and Contents: Collection consists of letters written to Frederick C. Irving by alumni of the Boston Lying-In Hospital, including Irving's trainees and colleagues, on the occasion of his retirement from the hospital in 1946. Most of the letters are bound into a volume titled Letters to Frederick C. Irving, M.D. from The Medical Alumni of Boston Lying-In Hospital, December 6, 1946. Some letters are typed, but most are handwritten. Several address Irving by the nickname...

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.

Frederick Soddy papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c388
Overview:

Frederick Soddy (1877-1956) was a chemist and Nobel Prize winning radioactive decay and radium emanation researcher. Papers reflect work on Soddy’s memoirs by author Muriel Howorth, including correspondence with Soddy as well as with other scientists.

Fredrick J. Stare papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c499
Overview: The Fredrick J. Stare papers, 1912-2002 (inclusive), 1950-1999 (bulk), are the product of Fredrick J. Stare’s professional, research, publishing, travel, and personal activities throughout the course of his career. The papers are arranged in nine series: I. Subject Files, 1912-2002; II. Correspondence Files, 1941-1999; III. Writings and Publications, 1934-1999; IV. Harvard University Administrative Records, 1942-2000; V. Travel Files, 1944-1994; VI. Personal Files, 1945-1999; VII. Audio,...

Free Hospital for Women records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: BWH c006
Overview:

The records of the Free Hospital for Women are the product of the hospital staff’s administrative, publications, and public relations activities from 1875 through 1975.

Fuller Albright papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c72
Overview:

The Fuller Albright papers, 1904-1964, 1990, consist of Albright's general correspondence files, patient files, and related records resulting from his research and teaching activities at Massachusetts General Hospital. The collection includes Albright's correspondence recording his research on endocrinology, and on conditions including osteoporosis, kidney stones, and Albright’s syndrome. The collection also contains Albright's writings and personal correspondence.

G. N. Stewart papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c41
Overview:

Includes correspondence of Stewart with physiologists and other scientists concerning research and laboratory work, professional appointments and activities, publications, lecturing, and other matters.

George Cheever Shattuck papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c551
Overview:

The George Cheever Shattuck papers consist of records collected and created by Shattuck in the course of his lifetime. Shattuck was a physician specializing in tropical medicine and published a textbook on the subject in 1951. He accompanied and led expeditions in Africa, Central America, and South America, and was a member of Richard P. Strong’s 1915-1916 medical relief mission to Serbia.

George H. Jackson, Jr. papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection — Box: 01Identifier: H MS c611
Scope and Contents: Consists of four bound volumes: three account ledgers and one scrapbook. The scrapbook includes material from Jackson’s time at several hospitals, including the Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Mayo Clinic, and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Some loose items have been glued or otherwise fastened to pages; the bulk of the information is handwritten and includes case notes and pharmacological formulae. The account ledgers list patients and billing amounts; some newspaper clippings are inside...

George Richards Minot papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: GA 55
Overview:

The George Richards Minot papers, 1891-1951, are the product of Minot's work as Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of Boston City Hospital's Harvard Medical Unit and the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory from 1928-1950. His research focused on blood and nutrition. Minot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology in 1934 for his discovery that liver extract cured pernicious anemia.

George V. Smith and Olive W. Smith papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c68
Overview:

Contains mostly research material, reflecting Olive and George Smith's studies on diseases of the human reproductive organs, such as metastasizing breast cancer, and work on urinary estrogens among other concerns. Also includes their correspondence with colleagues, pharmaceutical firms, etc. Other material includes Olive Smith's Vassar alumnae papers.

Grete L. Bibring papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS C159
Overview:

The Grete L. Bibring papers describe the early history of the influence of the Vienna School of psychoanalysis, (as well as Bibring herself), on psychoanalysis in Boston specifically, and in the United States, generally. The collection chronicles both her personal and professional life and work, and includes correspondence, research studies, raw data, statistics, writings, lecture notes and outlines.

H. Thomas Ballantine papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c215
Overview:

H MS c215, the H. Thomas Ballantine Papers, 1932-1993, documents the research and professional activities of H. Thomas Ballantine, Clinical Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Senior Neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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.

Hans Zinsser papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c73
Overview: The Hans Zinsser papers, 1887-1954 (inclusive), 1898-1942 (bulk), contain personal papers, research writing and travel material, and some teaching notes resulting from Zinsser's research and teaching activities at Harvard Medical School. The collection also includes research notes and manuscripts of writings and reprints on medical topics. Zinsser's personal papers in this collection include photographs, awards, datebooks, manuscripts of poems and other literary work, correspondence with...

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...

Harold B. Haley correspondence with Francis D. Moore

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection — Box: Small Manuscript Collections 01Identifier: H MS c429
Scope and Contents:

Letters 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.

Harold Leonard Higgins papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c332
Overview:

The Harold Leonard Higgins papers, 1896-1958 (inclusive), 1913-1942 (bulk), are the product of Higgins’s professional activities as a pediatrician, physiology researcher, and professor of pediatrics.

Harris Peyton Mosher photographs of anatomical preparations

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection — Box: 01Identifier: H MS c606
Scope and Contents:

Twenty albumen photographs depicting anatomical preparations of decapitated human heads in various stages of dissection. Images vary in size and are mounted uniformly on 14x11 inch mats, many bearing Mosher's name. Some photographs are labeled and accompanied by detailed description written directly on the mat. Included are images depicting the surgical technique known as Killian's Operations and examples of the Nasal Turbinates.

Harry C. Solomon papers

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: H MS c368
Overview:

Consists of transcripts of oral history interviews conducted between 1967 and 1968 with and about Harry C. Solomon (1889-1982) regarding his career as a psychiatrist and mental health reformer. The collection also includes professional records created and collected by Solomon during his early medical career, including autopsy reports from his service with the United States military in France during World War I, correspondence, manuscript drafts, and research note cards.

Harvard Fatigue Laboratory records

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: RG M-CE03, Series 00132, 00300-00305
Overview:

The Harvard Fatigue Laboratory records, 1916-1952 (inclusive), 1941-1947 (bulk), consist of correspondence, research records, reports, writings and publications, photographs, and films, and are the product of the Lab's research and administrative activities.

Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals images

FOUND IN: Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection Identifier: RG M-CL02, Series number 00159
Overview:

This finding aid describes photographs, prints and other images portraying the affiliated hospitals of Harvard Medical School.

Harvard Medical School buildings and grounds, early locations images

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

This finding aid describes prints, photographs, and negatives portraying early locations in which Harvard Medical School classes were taught. Included are buildings in Cambridge on the Harvard College campus and in Boston on Marlborough Street, Mason Street, North Grove Street, and Boylston Street.

Harvard Medical School buildings and grounds, Longwood Avenue Quadrangle images

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

This finding aid describes photographs, drawings, lanterns slides, negatives, postcards, and prints depicting the Harvard Medical School Quadrange and the Longwood Medical Area.

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