Its Roots in the Harvard Surgical Service
at the Boston City Hospital

William V. McDermott

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Table of Contents
Prologue • Origins, Inception, Conceptions, and Directions: The "Deaconess" Era, 1896-1929 • Consolidation and Growth, 1929-1941 • The War Years, 1941-1945 • Postwar Years, 1946-1953 • Expansion, Development, and Change, 1954-1973 • Harvard Surgery at the City Hospital, 1864-1963 • The Development of the Fifth (Harvard) Surgical Service, 1863-1973 • Years of Transition, 1973-1985 • The New Era, 1985-1995 • Notes and Index

1995, viii+204pp, Illus.
ISBN 0-88135-173-3, $19.95

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