by Will Doss An oil portrait of John B. Murphy, MD, donated to the medical school by his great granddaughter Theodore Roosevelt had a penchant…
by Nora Dunne A still from one of the newly digitized films shows Dr. McNealy demonstrating how to repair an inguinal hernia A gift from…
Dr. Beatrice Tucker (L), talking with a patient. The Chicago Maternity Center — which operated from 1895 until 1973 on the near-west side of Chicago…
Magnuson (right) presents President Harry Truman with a report of “The President’s Commission on the Health Needs of the Nation” in 1952. The Northwestern surgeon who,…
Williams, 1894. Provident Hospital in Chicago, the first black-owned and -operated interracial hospital and nurse training school, which Williams founded in 1891. Daniel Hale Williams,…
Above: Class in session at Feinberg School of Medicine, then called Chicago Medical College, which was located at 26th Street and Prairie Avenue from 1870…
Against all odds, Emma Reynolds pursues medicine and social reform Emma Reynolds took a winding but determined path to earn her Doctor of Medicine degree…
Above: Groundbreaking on the site of the Ward Building. Inset photo: The completed Ward Building in 1927. The Rise of Northwestern's Medical Center Nearly a…