Keen minds to explore the dark continents of disease

The Massachusetts General Hospital is the oldest and largest of the teaching hospitals of Harvard Medical School. Founded in 1811, the MGH has witnessed many medical discoveries in 200 years that have led to improvements in patient care. Central to its clinical, educational, and research missions have been its pathologists and Pathology department. Beginning with the first clinician-pathologists in the mid-nineteenth century, MGH Pathology has profoundly influenced medicine at the hospital and throughout the world. This book tells the stories of the pathologists and the Pathology laboratories at the MGH, bringing notable events, discoveries, and individuals to life in print for the first time. The history of MGH Pathology over the past nearly 200 years has featured pioneers in the field of pathology, biomedical discoveries and clinical innovations. The present book features 25 chapters, including: • The various eras of the MGH Pathology, from the early surgeons and physicians who practiced pathology to the highly subspecialized pathology department of the present day • Biographies of Reginald Heber Fitz, James Homer Wright, Tracy Burr Mallory, Benjamin Castleman, Austin L. Vickery,