Hospitals -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Stanley B. Burns, M.D., historic medical photography collection
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 76
Abstract:
The collection includes photographic plates and prints collected by Stanley B. Burns, M.D., that document medical practice and medical practitioners circa 1840 through the 1970s. The collection includes items created using multiple photographic techniques and supports including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, lantern slides, photographic negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet photographs (cabinet cards), stereoscopic photographs, panoramic photographs, picture postcards, gelatin silver...
Dates:
Circa 1840-1979
Hospital annual reports and ephemera collection
Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 2
Abstract:
Annual or biennial reports and other pamphlets issued by hospitals in China, Great Britain (especially London), and the United States. The states best represented are Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. Types of hospitals include general hospitals, specialty hospitals (children's, eye, lying-in, etc.), dispensaries, asylums, and homeopathic hospitals. About 200 hospitals are represented in this collection.
Dates:
1805-1969, bulk 1840-1900
Waltham Hospital medical records
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 82
Abstract:
The collection includes seven bound volumes of hand-written medical records from Waltham Hospital (Waltham Massachusetts) created between 1889-1897 and one book about Alfred Worcester, M.D. (1855-1951), who practiced medicine at Waltham Hospital. Each volume contains the records of approximately 100 patients written by attending physicians. Records may include progress notes, operative reports, medication records, pathology reports, patient dispositions, and drawings. The collection...
Dates:
1889-1897, 1925