Basement

A screenshot of a camera reflected in a hallway security mirror

The making of this tour

A title page reading Services at the Laying of the Corner Stone of the Massachsuetts General Hospital

The lost cornerstone

Two high schoolers and an adult lean over a mannequin on a stretcher.

Mannequin for simulation training

The old nurses’ dining room in a nurse’s words

Research at MGH

Man kneeling over photo studio set-up

Origins of the photo lab

Technician in EEG laboratory

Early location of EEG laboratory

laundry room

Approximate site of hospital’s first laundry

Saul Hertz, MD, tests how much radiation his subject (colleague Doris Darby) absorbed when using radioiodine as a tracer.

Approximate site of former thyroid clinic

Can of ether

Can of ether