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United States Army 95th Evacuation Hospital reports
Collection
Identifier: MSS 387
Overview
The 95th Evacuation Hospital’s official station was set up at Fort Breckenridge, Kentucky on August 25, 1942. In April 1943, the Hospital shipped out to North Africa from New York City. The unit served as support to the U.S. Fifth Army through the end of the North Africa campaign, as well as Italian campaigns at Naples-Foggia, Anzio, and Rome-Arno. In August 1944, the Hospital was reassigned to the U.S. Seventh Army, and supported it through campaigns in southern France, the Rhineland,...
Dates:
1944 - 1945
United States Army Diet Table for General Hospitals
Item
Identifier: MSS 362
Scope and Contents
A chart created by the United States Surgeon General's office detailing the components of daily meals for full diets and half diets; perhaps meant to guide hospitals in feeding patients.
At the top of the document, it states: "Articles composing the different diets for the day - Avoirdupois weight."
At the top of the document, it states: "Articles composing the different diets for the day - Avoirdupois weight."
Dates:
1862-10-28
United States Colored Infantry, 28th Regiment of Company G muster roll
Item
Identifier: MSS 1/005-01
Overview
One volume. Muster roll ledger recording details of Company G of the 28th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry. This ledger records the physical descriptions, entry and discharge dates, and details of the deaths of those who succumbed to enemy action or illness. Also of note are interesting manuscript medical treatments for cholera, whooping cough, etc.
Dates:
1863-1865
United States Insole Company letter
Collection
Identifier: MSS 371
Overview
United States Insole Company Papers contains a letter sent from the United States Insole Company in 1886. The United States Insole Company sold magnetic medical equipment to treat a multitude of ailments. The letter solicits interest in a free pair of magnetic insoles. This collection was discovered during a survey in the summer and fall of 2015.
Dates:
1886-04-26
W. B. Harer papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1992-5-1
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of papers of W. Benson Harer which includes appointment books, certificates, photographs, patient records, and drug evaluation reports. The drug evaluation reports (1955-1960) include reports for Schering; Smith, Kline & French; Squibb; Merck and others. There are patient records dating between 1944-1955, and appointment books listing the names of patients and amount paid between 1948-1967. Also included is an account book of office expenses (1949-1954) and photographs...
Dates:
1924-1967
W. S. W. Ruschenberger papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/012
Scope and Contents
This collection of Ruschenberger's papers contains personal correspondence.
The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from Ruschenberger
to his wife, Mary B. Wister, 1843-1848, and to his mother, Ann,
1826-1846. Although the correspondence with his wife is primarily
concerned with domestic issues, principally the birth of their daughter,
Fanny, these letters also describe a trip Ruschenberger made to Saratoga
Springs in 1843 and are filled with information on basic medical...
Dates:
1822 - 1851
W. Sampson Handley manuscript on the origin of bone deposits in breast cancer
Item
Identifier: MSS 427
Overview
William Sampson Handley MD, MS, FRCS (12 April 1872 – 1962) was an English surgeon who influenced the development of cancer surgery.
Paper originally published in the Surgical Clinics of North America, vol. VII, no. 1 (February 1927): 47.
Previously catalogued as 10a 288.
Paper originally published in the Surgical Clinics of North America, vol. VII, no. 1 (February 1927): 47.
Previously catalogued as 10a 288.
Dates:
circa 1927
Waldo E. Nelson papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1998-008
Scope and Contents note
The Waldo Emerson Nelson papers contain a variety of materials relating to Emerson's professional career. The collection includes an oral history taken by the American Academy of Pediatrics. There are transcripts of speeches from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, as well as post-retirement visits and speeches. Topics covered in the speeches include pediatrics, fluid therapy, cerebral palsy and infectious diseases. Some film and glass slides that accompanied his talks are present. The collection also...
Dates:
1924-1997
Walter B. Shelley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/147
Scope and Contents
This collection of 54 letters, 1951-1954, to Walter B. Shelley
from dermatologists around the world, contains biographical
information which was used in Shelley's Classics in clinical
dermatology (1953). Most of the correspondents convey photographs
and information on their own life, career, and work or that
of relatives.Correspondents are: Stuart D. Allen, Paul Blum, Aldo Castellani,
Helen O. Curth, Niels Danbolt, Oskar Gans, Henri Gougerot, Sir
Archibald Gray, Sven...
Dates:
1951 - 1954
Walter Freeman autobiography
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/014-02
Scope and Contents
Unbound typescript autobiography of Walter Freeman, written 1961-1970, discussing Freeman’s life, Keen
and Freeman families, his father, Walter J. Freeman, and Freeman’s work in neurology, neuropathology,
psychosurgery, and schizophrenia. Notable subjects are: Freeman’s work and disagreement with James W.
Watts on prefrontal and transorbital lobotomy; the second International Neurological Congress (1935);
Freeman’s follow-up studies of lobotomy patients; establishment of the El Camino Hospital...
Dates:
1961 - 1970
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