1929

Dedication of Welch Medical Library and Institute of History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, with Welch (per Rockefeller Foundation [RF] stipulation) the first Professor of the History of Medicine. Welch chose his successor, Henry Sigerist (Karl Sudhoff’s successor at the Univ. of Leipzig), who came to Hopkins in 1932 (Brown & Fee, 340-342). In 1933, Sigerist began publication of the Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine (as special supplement of the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital (343); in 1939 it was renamed the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and became the official organ of both the American Association for the History of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Institute (348).