Saul Jarcho papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS 2/157

Scope and Contents

The collection contains Saul Jarcho's files on three paleopathology projects, 1961-1975. Series 1 contains four folders of correspondence, 1966-1968, concerning the formation of the International Paleopathology Association. The bulk of this correspondence is between Jarcho and Abner Irving Weisman, who founded the Association in 1966. The International Paleopathology Association seems to have been discontinued circa 1968.

Series 2 contains Saul Jarcho's correspondence files, 19611970, and a preliminary plan, 1964, for a study center known as the Registry of Human Paleopathology, which Jarcho conceived, designed, and promoted. Most of the correspondence concerns Jarcho's attempts to secure support for the Registry. Although, in the 1960s, Harvard University expressed interest in the project, the Registry of Human Paleopathology was never established.

Three holograph lectures on the history of paleopathology delivered by Saul Jarcho at sessions of the Smithsonian Institution's Seminar Series in Paleopathology, 1972 andj1974, along with related correspondence and illustrative and reference materials, 1971-1975, are preserved in Series 3.

Dates

1961 - 1975

Creator

Jarcho, Saul (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Saul Jarcho, New York physician and historian of medicine, cardiology and pathology, was born on 25 October 1906. In 1948, he married Irma Seijo; the Jarchos had two children.

Jarcho received an A.B. in 1925 from Harvard University and an M.A. in 1926 and an M.D. in 1930 from Columbia University. He was licensed to practice medicine in 1930 and served an internship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. From 1936 to 1942, Jarcho taught pathology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia. In 1948, he became associate physician to Mount Sinai Hospital.

Saul Jarcho was vice president and president of the American Association for the History of Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1977 and resigned in 1989. He served as editor of the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine and editor in chief of the Transactions and studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

Extent

2 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Custodial History

The collection of Saul Jarcho's papers on paleopathology projects were donated to the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Saul Jarcho on 12 November 1980.

The collection was processed and catalogued in 1990.