BWH Celebrates Women in Medicine and Science
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.

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

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.