Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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1811/02/25 | Rev John Bartlett | Advocate | Massachusetts General Hospital Corporation is chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature. The Corporation is intended to treat both physical and mental illnesses, with a separate facility for each. | |||
1818/00/00 | Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company | Established | The Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance Company is established to provide additional income to Boston's first hospital, the Massachusetts General. | |||
1818/01/00 | Charles Bulfinch | Architect | Charles Bulfinch's designs for Massachusetts General Hospital are accepted, south facade of the original center section, now known as the Bulfinch Pavilion has been preserved | |||
1823/00/00 | Alexander Parris | Architect | Massachusetts General Hospital is built with coursed ashlar granite, cut and dressed by convicts from Charlestown Prison (lost), 1818-1823. | |||
1846/00/00 | George Perkins | Architect | Bulfinch's Massachusetts General Hospital building is nearly doubled in size and the original interior of is extensively remodeled, 1844-1846, by architect George Perkins. | |||
1856/07/16 | Dr James Clarke White | Work | James Clarke White graduates from Harvard Medical School. | |||
1892/00/00 | Richard Clarke Cabot | Work | Richard Cabot turns down the job of the first bacteriologist at Mass General Hospital to work in the hospital's outpatient department which deals with people who can't afford inpatient treatment, or for the treatment of incurable chronic conditions. | |||
1896/00/00 | Nathaniel Bowditch Potter | Work | Dr Potter works as a Medical interne at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1896-1898. | |||
1912/00/00 | Roger Lee and with Paul D White, develop the Lee-White clotting time at the Massachusetts General. Lee demonstrates that it is safe to give group O blood to patients of any blood group, and that blood from all groups can be given to group AB patients. | History of Transfusion Medicine | ||||
1953/09/03 | Silvia Plath | Health | Sylvia Plath is moved to the Psychiatric Ward at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. |
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Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital |
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McLean Hospital National Register District |
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Particulars for Massachusetts General Hospital: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Criteria | Historic Event |
Historic Use | Hospital |
Level of Significance | National |
Architectural Style | Neoclassical |
Owner | Private |
Area of Significance | Science |
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