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Timeline for the Department of Environmental Health.

Harvard Chan School Archivist Collaborates to Create First Historical Timeline of the Department of Environmental Health

August 9, 2016

Working collaboratively with faculty and staff within the Department of Environmental Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, public health archivist...

Photograph of Dr. Harvey Cushing writing at his desk in 1933.

BWH Unlocks Historic Hospital Reports, 1875–1979

June 30, 2016

Did you know that Brigham and Women’s Hospital was created by the merger last century of four famous Boston institutions?

Photograph of three women volunteers in the home work department of the New England Surgical Dressings Committee workrooms.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Archives Collections—Spotlight

May 28, 2016

An American Journal of Nursing article published in December of 1915 announced the start of an organization whose work became so important to saving the lives of wounded soldiers that Dr. Harvey Cushing. . . was moved to create a memorial tablet for it with the intention of permanently embedding it in the walls of his hospital. 

Infant girls anthropometric growth chart.

Staff Finds: Growth and Development Charts

March 31, 2016

Processing staff recently found a variety of child growth and development charts while...

Men demonstrating how to administer anesthesia to a patient.

“The Advent of Anesthesia”

March 16, 2016

After the February screening of the 1950 MGM film “Mystery Street,” our colleague Sarah Alger at the Paul S. Russell Museum...

Wooden handled brass "airmeter" (anemometer). Airmeter is in metal case around fan section. Airmeter has open metal circle affixed to wooden handle. Metal circle has two diameter-long metal poles with small metal and paper fan (four pieces) inside. Round piece of paper sits in case describing airmeter.

Warren Museum device pictured in Harvard Medicine magazine

March 1, 2015

An unusual device built by HMS alumnus Morrill Wyman (1812-1903)  is depicted in the Winter 2015 edition of Harvard Medicine magazine. The device is an airmeter or anemometer, and it was designed by Wyman to register air flow and speed.

Photograph of the first staff of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital with Sir William Osler.

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Records Opened for Research

July 14, 2014

The Center for the History of Medicine and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Medical Library are pleased to announce that the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Records, 1830– 980 are now open for research.

Cast of Eustache Belin's head.

Warren Museum Conserves Eustache Belin Phrenology Cast

May 25, 2014

The Warren Anatomical Museum recently conserved a phrenology cast of Eustache Belin, formerly of the collection of the Boston Phrenological Society. The Society existed approximately from 1832 to 1842.

Headshot of Erich Lindermann.

Erich Lindemann Papers Open to Research

March 26, 2014

The Center is pleased to announce that the Erich Lindemann papers are now open to research.

Thomas Dwight Jr. lecturing a class using the Dwight-Emerton skull models. There is a blackboard with diagrams behind him and desks holding other models in front.

Warren Museum Conserves New Accessions for “Body of Knowledge” exhibit

January 30, 2014

In November 2013 Harvard Medical School’s Program in Medical Education generously donated a series of large papier-mâché models designed by Harvard anatomist Thomas Dwight, Jr. and sculptor J. H. Emerton to the Warren Anatomical Museum.

Worn, leather surgery kit with medical tools inside that was used in the American Civil War and found on a battlefield in 1862.

New artifacts donated to Warren Museum

August 8, 2013

The Warren Museum recently acquired two new artifacts. R. Bryan and Drew Trainor donated a pocket surgery kit to the Museum that had been passed down through their family.

PBBH President Alan Steinhart handing off the 50 year time capsule, a 11" x 15" metal box, to J. Linzee Coolidge at the 50th anniversary gala.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Archives Opens 1963 Time Capsule

July 9, 2013

In 1963, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a parent hospital of the current incarnation, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, celebrated its 50th anniversary. One way staff marked the occasion was with a time capsule...

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