Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.

Some major Boston area institutions — the Boston Athenaeum, Mass General and McLean Hospital ... made from trading opium with China in the 19th century. At that time, American merchants imported ...

Mass General Brigham, Massachusetts’ largest ... including the first successful use of anesthesia for surgery in the 19th century and the first successful human organ transplant in 1954.

For 100 years, the Journal’s publication of the Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital has helped to guide medical practice and build a global community of clinicians. The content is ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University said it has removed human skin from the binding of a 19th century book about ... a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked,” Harvard ...