Boston Medical Library

[2] James Read Chadwick, a gynecologist, collected books, pamphlets, and medical periodicals and make this material accessible to the practicing physician.

[5] Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Parkman Professor of Anatomy and Physiology at Harvard,[3] served as the BML's first president and writer Librarian.

It was housed in a new building named for Lever Brothers executive Francis A. Countway,[6] whose sister, after his death, gave $3.5 million of his fortune toward the library.

[3] In 1999, the Rare Books and Special Collections Department of the Countway Library assumed custodial responsibility for the Warren Anatomical Museum.

Among its holdings is the skull of Phineas Gage,[7] whose life after a traumatic brain injury contributed significantly to medical science.