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The Google Logo with a cartoon image of a doctor taking care of a child.

Dr. Fe del Mundo

November 27, 2018

Dr. Fe del Mundo is celebrated in today’s Google Doodle. She was the founder of the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines... 

Plaster head cast of Phineas Gage by Henry Jacob Bigelow.

Center Receives S.T. Lee Innovation Grant

July 10, 2018

The Center is pleased to announce that it has received S.T. Lee Innovation Grant funding for its 2018 proposal, “Beyond the Beyond Box.” The application was one of nineteen proposals...

Two men demonstrating how to use a machine that measures breathing.

Center Receives Harvard Six Cities Study Research Data

June 4, 2018

Respiratory Health Effects of Respirable Particles and Sulfur Oxides, commonly called the Harvard Six Cities Study, followed...

Black and white image of two people arranging miniature furnishings and figures

Nutshell Studies Loaned to Renwick Gallery for Exhibition

October 13, 2017

In 1946, Frances Glessner Lee donated the first ten models of what have become known as the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death to Harvard Medical...

cover of Clinical Symposia 21, no. 1 (January-March 1969).

Staff Finds: Netter’s Clinical Symposia Illustrations and Other Publications and Pamphlets

May 10, 2017

While processing the papers of Marie C. McCormick (born 1946), Center staff found a collection of interesting pamphlets and publications on a range of topics. 

3D print of Phineas Gage's skull, which includes a hole in the top front portion of the skull.

Phineas Gage 3D Print!

December 5, 2016

One of the most interesting developments in the renewed teaching capacity and impact of Phineas Gage is the recent...

Speciman containers displayed on a lab table with descriptions and images in front of each container.

Documenting and preserving the Warren Anatomical Museum’s medical wet specimen collection

November 9, 2016

From roughly the 1840’s through the 1940’s, the Warren Anatomical Museum (WAM) collected and acquired several hundred anatomical wet tissue specimens from medical institutions and from area physicians and academics.

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...

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