by Meg | Mar 6, 2017 | Architecture, Building, History of Maryland Med
Are you friends with MedChi, The Maryland State Medical Society on FaceBook? If you aren’t, you should be, and if you are, you might have seen our #TBT (Throw-Back Thursday) photographs.Each Thursday, we post a picture and an explanation of it. We are hoping to...
by Meg | Feb 9, 2017 | History of Maryland Med, Physicians, Portraits
While most people know Horace H. Hayden as the founder of the first dental school in America, he’s got another claim to fame!Dr. Hayden was one of the founders of the Maryland Academy of Sciences and served as its president in 1825. In 1820, as a pioneer...
by Meg | Jan 20, 2017 | Archives, History of Maryland Med
Happy 218th Birthday to MedChi! via GIPHY
by Meg | Aug 26, 2016 | Archives, Ephemera, History of Maryland Med, On My Desk
One of our generous members kindly dropped off a print for us the other week, and I’ve just had the chance to take a really good look at it. It is essentially a view from the old Church Home & Hospital, from where Johns Hopkins is situated today. You can see the...
by Meg | Jul 14, 2016 | Cultural Exchange, Events, History of Maryland Med
MedChi hosted our first ‘pop-up” lecture on July 13th, and it was a stellar success! More than 150 people registered for the event, and we were still receiving requests for tickets up until 15 minutes before it started! Osler Hall was filled with members of the public...
by Meg | Jun 30, 2016 | History of Maryland Med, Physicians
With the lecture about the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, just under two weeks from now, I thought I would give you a bit of background about them. These fascinating Nutshell Studies were created in the 1940’s by Francis Glessner Lee, an heiress to the...
