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copy of "The Soiling of Old Glory"

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S. Burt Wolbach and the 1918 Flu

Photograph of a lung tissue sample from 1918 showing flu damage

How did the 1918 flu outbreak at Camp Devens lead to a...

Feeling the urge to purge? Acquisitions staff are here to help!

Boxes of binders on the floor

Feeling the urge to purge? Before you toss those papers...

Countway Launches LMA COVID-19 Archive

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The Countway Library is pleased to announce that it is...

How One Hospital Handled the 1918 Influenza Epidemic

Doctors at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts wearing personal protective equipment

In 1918, no hospital was spared the responsibility of caring...

Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Friendship Cup

Ornate stemless silver cup with engravings reading: Oliver Wendell Holmes; The pledge of friendship may flow

On August 29, 1889, former dean of Harvard Medical School...

Nathan Cooley Keep and the Parkman-Webster Murder Trial

Floor plan of Webster’s laboratory

In 1846, Nathan Cooley Keep, a dentist, fashioned a set of...

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Page of Latin text illustrated with two naked men with their arms on each others shoulders and the skin pulled back from their torsos to show their inner anatomy. From the 1496 rare book Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum.

The Center for the History of Medicine’s reading room may be...

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Woman looking in to a microcrope

The Women in Medicine Legacy Foundation is pleased to...

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Education Materials

handwritten recipes for non-alcoholic beverages; recipes include Berry Blush, Party Punch, and Water.

Center staff are currently processing the papers of David...

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