In honor of Women’s History Month,CRN is featuring historical photos from the BWH Archives of women physicians, scientists, healthcare workers and staff. Please click on the photo to view its caption or view photos and captions in this photo gallery.  

Dr. Victoria Maxwell Cass, MD, MPH (1914-1998) pathologist and educator. Served as Associate Director of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and Acting Director of the PBBH 1957-1958.
Dr. Olive Watkins Smith, PhD (1901-1983), the first woman to attain a PhD in Biochemistry from the Division of Medical Sciences at HMS, was the Director of the Fearing Research Laboratory at the Free Hospital for Women.
Free Hospital for Women, Miss Sara Danziger, Technician, Path Lab, circa 1940
Dr. Olive Watkins Smith in Fearing Research Laboratory, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital circa 1934
Mildred B. Codding, observes and draws a surgical procedure, circa 1930s
Women Scientists in a Laboratory, Robert B. Brigham Hospital (c1950s)
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital’s well-known medical Illustrator, Mildred B. Codding, observes and draws a surgical procedure, circa 1930s. Codding illustrated many books and journal articles for Harvey Cushing and other PBBH MDs, including the renowned Atlas of Surgical Operations by Robert M. Zollinger and Elliott C. Cutler
Dr. Walter’s Lab, 1964. New laboratory facilities on top floor of Administration Building. Dr. Ruth Kundsin, at far right, pioneering microbiologist, worked at Peter Bent Brigham, now Brigham and Women’s Hospital, for 51 years and was the hospital epidemiologist from 1970 to 1982.
Carrie Hall founded the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital School of Nursing in 1912 and formalized education for nurses. She expanded classroom education, developing a three-year curriculum with lectures on pharmacology, basic sciences, practical nursing and surgical and medical disease. The school graduated its first class of 16 nurses in 1915.Hall, who helped set the Brigham’s model for high standards, trained nurses in proper hygiene, patient care, record-keeping and ward cleanliness, which was essential in preventing infection from spreading. Hall also served on the front in the Brigham’s Base Hospital Number 5, and then was appointed chief nurse of the American Red Cross in Great Britain during World War I.
Carrie Hall surrounded by the first class of graduating nurses, 1915

 

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