In November 1849, a sensational murder shook the city of Boston to its core. It all began when Dr. George Parkman, a scion of one of Boston's richest families, suddenly vanished. One week later ...

Courtesy, Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine The nineteenth century, in which George Parkman and John Webster learned medicine, was a pivotal time for the ...

Arrest of Prof. J. W. Webster!," they had every reason to be especially shocked. For Dr. George Parkman was one of Boston's leading citizens, and John White Webster was Erving Professor of ...