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Tufts Medical Center / Robert Bloomberg and Daniel Bird ; foreword by Michael Wagner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bloomberg, Robert, author.
- Bird, Daniel, active 2015, author.
- Series:
- Images of America.
- Images of America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitals--Massachusetts--Boston--History.
- Hospitals.
- Tufts Medical Center--History.
- Tufts Medical Center.
- Boston Floating Hospital for Infants and Children--History.
- Boston Floating Hospital for Infants and Children.
- Boston.
- Medical Subjects:
- Boston.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The story of Tufts Medical Center and the Floating Hospital for Children encompasses the history of medicine in Boston. It was founded in 1796 as the Boston Dispensary, where district physicians provided free medical care to the poor through annual subscriptions from wealthy Boston families, including such luminaries as Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. Fueled by a huge influx of immigrants at the turn of the 20th century, the city of Boston rapidly expanded and diversified. So too did the hospital, whose growth included the addition of evening clinics to serve the working poor. The Floating Hospital for Children started in 1894 as a ship outfitted as a hospital to take the city's sick children out on Boston Harbor to receive the benefits of fresh ocean air and the attention of a volunteer medical staff. In the 1930s, it merged with the Boston Dispensary and the Pratt Diagnostic Clinic along with Tufts University's Medical School to form the nucleus of today's Tufts Medical Center, a national leader in health care, teaching, and research.
- Contents:
- The Boston Dispensary
- The Floating Hospital for Children
- Tufts Medical Center.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4396-5370-4
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