People, Places, and Things

Built to Last
In the marble splendor of Building A, the sixth administrative home of
Harvard Medical School has proved to be enduring.
by Nora N. Nercessian

Creature Comforts
Clinicians soothed the ills of the savage—and not so savage—beast
during the short life of the Harvard School of Veterinary Medicine.
by Anthony S. Patton

Joint Ventures
Harvard’s Surgical Research Laboratory has closed its doors after
nearly a century of advances that have boldly transformed the
way medicine operates.
by Nicholas L. Tilney and Mary Graves Tilney

True Grit
From impeccable geniuses to scruffy con men, the Boston City Hospital
of old housed a richly eccentric cast of characters whose lessons
are not easily forgotten.
by Pieter Kark

Photo: Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine