Harry Mortimer Archer (April 23, 1868 – May 17, 1954) was a professor of Medicine, and the chief surgeon of the Fire Department of New York City.
[1] Following his death a letter to The New York Times, from Richard C. Patterson Jr., one of his colleagues, described how Archer had attended every fire in the city for seventy-five years.
Patterson wrote that Archer had found drugs that helped the victims of smoke inhalation, and had developed special surgical tools for treating the victims of fires.
In 1920 the Department created an award, in his name, that was given to other brave men and women.
[5][6] There is an area of the Phoenix's Hall of Flame Fire Museum devoted to Archer, and his medical innovations.