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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
