Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club

The Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club was a society devoted to studying the history of medicine. Founded on 10 November 1890 by more than 30 people including William Osler, William H. Welch, William Stewart Halsted, and Howard A. Kelly,^[1] its first meeting was held at the library of the Johns Hopkins Hospital on 30 November.^[2] As a precursor to the William H. Welch Institute of the History of Medicine founded at Johns Hopkins in 1929, the Historical Club was instrumental to the development of the discipline of medical history.^[3]

References

Notes

1. Miller 1971, p. 51, note 23.
2. Chesney 1943, p. 166.
3. Flexner 1946, p. 141.

Works cited

• Chesney, Alan Mason (1943), The Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine: A Chronicle, Volume 1: Early Years (1867–1893), Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
• Flexner, Abraham H. (1946), Daniel Coit Gilman: Creator of the American Type of University, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company.  – via Questia (subscription required)
• Miller, Genevieve (1971), "Henry E. Handerson's German Correspondents: Letters of Baas, Sudhoff, Oefele", Medizinhistorisches Journal, 6 (1): 45–52, JSTOR 25803312.  – via JSTOR (subscription required)