Description
Collection includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, proof sheets, clippings,
photographs (primarily of surgical patients), scrapbook.
Background
Charles Brooks Brigham was born in Boston, MA, January 17, 1845. In 1892 he graduated
from the Boston Latin School, and proceeded to Harvard University, where he received his
B.A in 1866, and his medical degree, March 19, 1870. While a medical student he received
the first prize of the Boylston Medical Society (1868) for a paper, "Diabetes mellitus."