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Physicians.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene records

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

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...

C. Miller Fisher papers

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.

Elizabeth B. Connell papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c437
Overview: The Elizabeth B. Connell papers reflect the professional activities of Elizabeth B. Connell (1925-2018). Connell is a medical practitioner and specialist in the field of reproductive health. From the 1960s, her work has centered on reproductive medicine in terms of contraception and women’s health. The collection focuses on her work on forms of contraception including oral contraceptives and intrauterine contraceptive devices as well as her involvement in issues such as the controversy...

Hall Jackson papers

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.

Harvard Medical School affiliated hospitals images

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 School of Public Health. Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records

Collection Identifier: RG P-DT08.02, Series 00573-00577
Overview: The Harvard School of Public Health Longitudinal Studies of Child Health and Development records, 1918-2015 (inclusive), 1930-1989 (bulk), are the product of research by the Department of Maternal and Child Health on the health, physical development, and social functioning of a set of subjects from birth through adulthood. The papers are arranged in five series: I. Data and Administrative Records (1923-2015, undated); II. Manuscript Drafts and Publications (1918-2000, undated); III....

International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War records

Collection Identifier: H MS c432
Overview: The records of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, 1957-1989 (inclusive), 1980-1987 (bulk), are the product of the organization’s activist, educational, outreach, publishing, and administrative activities over the course of its first ten years. The papers are arranged in seven series: I. Administrative Records, 1959-1989, undated; II. International Congresses, 1963-1987, undated; III. Physicians’ Call for an End to the Nuclear Arms Race Petition Campaign,...

Levi Wooster Humphrey physician's log book

Collection — Box 01Identifier: H MS c651
Content Description: Log book of Levi W. Humphrey, of Southwick, Massachusetts, containing entries dated between 1822 and 1829 reflecting his practice and bookkeeping as a rural physician. Includes records of visits paid and medicines given, as well as particular medical services rendered, such as tooth extractions, vaccinations, and attendance at parturition (childbirth), and records of payments (cash or goods). Some opposite pages of the book are pasted over with printed engravings cut out from other sources;...

Lyman Spalding papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c2
Overview: The Lyman Spalding papers, 1793-1965 (inclusive), 1793-1820 (bulk), contain correspondence of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, physician Lyman Spalding (1775-1821), his lecture notes on anatomy and surgery, Spalding's patient case histories and case reports, essays on medicine and meteorology, and tickets of admission to medical lectures at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. There are also botanical specimens Spalding collected in Portsmouth, and a small amount of twentieth century...

Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses student photograph album Digital

Item — Box 01Identifier: H MS c438
Scope and Contents:

Consists of one photograph album depicting Massachusetts General Hospital nursing students and doctors in hospital and leisure settings. Photographs are snapshots likely taken by the album's creator. Images are labeled with a mixture of proper names, nicknames, and commentary; several pages are embellished with ink sketches. One photograph labeled "The Seniors" indicates that the album was created by a student at the Massachusetts General Hospital Training School for Nurses.

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital records

Collection Identifier: BWH c3
Overview:

The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital records are the product of the hospital’s administrative, fundraising, publication, and public relations activities, as well as construction projects and training programs. The bulk of the records date from 1911 through 1980.

Sylvanus Fansher papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c472
Overview:

The Sylvanus Fansher papers, 1805-1846 (inclusive), consist of correspondence, manuscripts, research materials, and patient records related to Sylvanus Fansher's (1770-1846) work on smallpox vaccination, as well as personal correspondence with his family.

Theron G. Randolph papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c183
Overview:

The Theron Randolph papers were produced in the course of Randolph's work as an allergy specialist and reflect his work in the development of clinical ecology as well as the environmental and the natural foods movements.

Waterhouse family papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c17
Overview:

Waterhouse family papers, 1780-1894 (inclusive), 1811-1818 (bulk) principally consist of the correspondence of Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) and John Fothergill Waterhouse (1791-1817) with family members. Also included are medical, subject, and lecture notes; writings; a journal; and a biography of Benjamin Waterhouse.

William Heberden papers

Collection Identifier: H MS c24
Overview: The William Heberden papers, 1740-1786 (inclusive), contain manuscripts by English physician William Heberden (1710-1801) about the use of amulets and magic in medicine, a lecture on the medicinal uses of plants, and notes and prescriptions. Also includes correspondence addressed to Heberden from Stephen Hales (1677-1761), who reports his successful use of ventilators on ships and discusses the evils of strong liquor; a few letters of others concerning cure for bladder stones; obituaries;...