Boston Dispensary
Biography
Abstract:
The Boston Dispensary (BD) was founded in 1796 and was New England’s first permanent medical facility. In 1930 the BD joined the New England Medical Center consortium, partnering with the Boston Floating Hospital and the Tufts College School of Medicine. The BD was, over the course of the next thirty years, integrated into the Pratt Clinic/New England Center Hospital (PC/NECH). In 1965, the Tufts-New England Medical Center (T-NEMC) officially merged all of these organizations. T-NEMC was renamed the Tufts Medical Center in 2008, and is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
The Boston Dispensary (BD) was founded by Oliver Smith in 1796, and was the third dispensary established in the United States. Officially incorporated on February 26, 1801, the BD was the first of the New England Medical Center consortium organizations to be founded. The consortium itself was formed in 1930 and is now known as the Tufts Medical Center.
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Drawing of Benjamin Dearborn dated 1803
Drawing of Benjamin Dearborn dated 1803, 1880 -- 1960
Drawing of Benjamin Dearborn by L. Lemet
Ear ache, 1912-02
Boy (with mother?), with ear ache, crossing Ash Street to Boston Dispensary building.
Education, 1955-06-10
BD graduating class of 35 medical lab technicians.
Elmer Barron, 1930
Elmer W. Barron (center), Pediatrician-in-Chief, on rounds in the Boston Dispensary's children's hospital ward, stops to review a baby's case with members of the medical and nursing staff.
Entrance to the Boston Dispensary
Entrance to the Boston Dispensary, 1910
Boston Dispensary: patients approaching Dispensary entrance at Ash and Bennett streets.
