The History of Boston

In 1912, the New England Journal then called the Boston Medical Journal a daily broadsheet. It threw itself a centennial birthday full of unbridled optimism with pay-ins to American success at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. The last 100 years have introduced antibiotics, open heart surgery, CT scanners and MRI machines,. chemotherapy, monoclonal antibodies, solid organ transplants; elimination of smallpox.