Center for the History of Medicine

Phineas Gage 3D Print!

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

One of the most interesting developments in the renewed...

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

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

From roughly the 1840’s through the 1940’s, the Warren...

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

Timeline for the Department of Environmental Health.

Working collaboratively with faculty and staff within the...

BWH Unlocks Historic Hospital Reports, 1875–1979

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

Did you know that Brigham and Women’s Hospital was created...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital Archives Collections—Spotlight

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

An American Journal of Nursing article published in December...

Staff Finds: Growth and Development Charts

Infant girls anthropometric growth chart.

Processing staff recently found a variety of child growth...

“The Advent of Anesthesia”

Men demonstrating how to administer anesthesia to a patient.

After the February screening of the 1950 MGM film “Mystery...

Warren Museum device pictured in Harvard Medicine magazine

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.

An unusual device built by HMS alumnus Morrill Wyman (1812...

Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Records Opened for Research

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

The Center for the History of Medicine and the Brigham and...

Warren Museum Conserves Eustache Belin Phrenology Cast

Cast of Eustache Belin's head.

The Warren Anatomical Museum recently conserved a phrenology...

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