144 days ago by Harvard University Press

On January 22nd, 1913, a Mary Agnes Turner was the first patient admitted to the newly completed Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. After the birth of her first child the veins in her legs had begun to swell, and long hours on her feet as a maid only made things worse. By 1913, at age 45, her va ...

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