Submitted by chh4011 on March 1, 2013 - 4:02am
Approximately 750,000 Americans whether Union or Confederate died in the Civil War. About 250,000 died of battle wounds. About 500,000 died of infectious diseases such as dysentery/intestinal diseases, malaria, continual fevers, measles, mumps, yellow fever, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, venereal diseases, and cholera. These staggering figures are more than the combined statistics of all major wars that Americans participated in through the Korean War.
Submitted by chh4011 on January 8, 2013 - 5:06am
David B. Levine, M.D.
Emeritus Professor, Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery
Weill Cornell Medical College
Director, Alumni Association and Archives
Hospital for Special Surgery
will present the winter 2013 Heberden Society lecture.
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The Civil War and its Casualties
Wednesday, January 23, 2013. 4:30 p.m.
Weill Cornell Medical College, 1300 York Avenue
Uris Faculty Room (A-126)
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Submitted by chh4011 on January 4, 2013 - 9:14am
Two exhibits on the Civil War will be on displayed in the Medical College Library until the end of January. The first exhibit is an traveling display called Life and Limb: the Toll of the American Civil War. This exhibition was developed and produced by the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health.
Submitted by chh4011 on December 21, 2012 - 7:08am
Happy Holidays from the staff of the Medical Center Archives. We will be closed on December 24-26, and December 31-January 1. Enjoy the scene of the Cornell University-New York Hospital School of Nursing's Candlelight Ceremony, ca. 1940s.
Submitted by chh4011 on November 20, 2012 - 6:57am
Enjoy this image of the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses Class of 1924 Thanksgiving Dance, held on November 28, 1922.
Submitted by chh4011 on November 16, 2012 - 6:25am
A new exhibit has been installed in the 1300 York Avenue Lobby honoring the 70th anniversary of the Ninth General Hospital, which was organized by New York Hospital during World War II.
Submitted by chh4011 on October 24, 2012 - 6:22am
Dr. Tauber's lecture has been cancelled due to transportation complications in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. It will be rescheduled at a later date.
Please join us for our next lecture on Wednesday, January 23, at 4:30 p.m. David B. Levine will present on: The Civil War and its Casualties. More details to follow closer to the date.
The Heberden Society and the Division of Medical Ethics jointly present:
Alfred I. Tauber, M.D.
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Boston University
Submitted by chh4011 on October 19, 2012 - 10:18am
The Weill Cornell Medical College Alumni Association will present Special Achievement Awards to four distinguished alumni on October 20. An exhibit of photographs and documents featuring the award recipients is now on display in the Weill Cornell Medical College main lobby at 1300 York Avenue.
Submitted by chh4011 on September 12, 2012 - 6:31am
Curtis Hart, M.Div., Lecturer in Public Health, Psychiatry, and Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Religion and Health, will present the first Heberden Society Lecture of the 2012-13 academic year on Thursday, September 27, 2012, at The New York Academy of Medicine.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Famous Patient
Thursday, September 27. 6:00 p.m. (Light refreshments served at 5:30)
Submitted by chh4011 on September 5, 2012 - 2:15pm
Are you interested in the history of medicine? Then you'll want to attend the Heberden Society lectures!
