Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1809, Aug. 29 | Born, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1829 | Graduated, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1830 | Wrote poem "Old Ironsides," generating interest in the preservation of the Constitution (Ship) |
| 1836 | M.D. degree, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass. Published first volume of verse, Poems (Boston: Otis, Broaders and Co.) |
| 1839-1840 | Professor of anatomy and physiology, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. |
| 1840 | Married Amelia Lee Jackson |
| 1843 | Read and published medical paper, Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever (republished in 1936, [Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins]) |
| 1847-1853 | Dean, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass. |
| 1847-1882 | Professor of anatomy and physiology, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Mass.; professor emeritus, 1882-1894 |
| 1857 | Helped establish the Atlantic Monthly |
| 1858 | Published The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Co.) |
| 1894, Oct. 7 | Died, Boston, Mass. |