Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin | The History of HMS

The History of HMS

People, Places, and Things
> Glorious Deeds
> Midwifery and Medicine
> Mind and Body
> Murder Most Harvard
> Pride and Prejudice
> Witnesses to the Revolution

Other Accounts of HMS History
> Looking Back and Looking Forward
> A Century of Progress
> Previous Deans
> A Video History of the Quad
> Discovery Timelines for
Harvard Affiliates
> Nobel Laureates at HMS

Other Harvard Resources
> The Center for the History
of Medicine
> The Warren Anatomical Museum
> Contagion: Historical Views of Diseases
and Epidemics
> The Archives for Women in Medicine

People, Places, and Things

Glorious Deeds
Committed to relieving human suffering, philanthropist Henry Isaiah Dorr gave the anesthesia field an early boost.
by John P. Bunker

Midwifery and Medicine
Despite haunting tragedy, obstetrical pioneer Walter Channing created
a legacy of compassion that has persisted into modern times.
by Amalie M. Kass

Mind and Body
An unbroken chain of HMS teachers and students have believed that
medicine must respect the link between the mental and the physical.
by Eugene I. Taylor

Murder Most Harvard
A brutal slaying at Harvard Medical School led to one of the
world’s first applications of forensic evidence in court.
by Anthony S. Patton

Pride and Prejudice
Harvard Medical School students of African descent inherit a legacy
that predates the advent of affirmative action by more than a century.
Interview by Eve Higginbotham

Witnesses to the Revolution
Harvard alumni reflect on the births of modern medicine and surgery.
by Oglesby Paul and George Dunlop

Photo: Harvard Medical Library at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (Oliver Wendell Holmes)