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Fulton, John F. (John Farquhar), 1899-1960

 Person

Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:

Henrietta C. Bartlett papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 336
Abstract: Collection includes letters to Bartlett from various correspondents, concerned mainly with bibliographical matters, relating especially to Shakespeare and his period. Correspondents include Joseph Quincy Adams, Tucker Brooke, Beverly Chew, George Watson Cole, Harvey Cushing, John Drinkwater, John Farquhar Fulton, W. W. Greg, Geoffrey Keynes, Amy Lowell, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow, Julia Marlowe, William Allan Neilson, Alfred Edward Newton, Alfred William Pollard, Seymour de Ricci, Otis...
Dates: 1471-1961

Correspondence relating to the Servetus Bible (Lvgdvni : Apud Hvgonem à Porta, 1542), 1948 March 19-25

 Part of Collection — Box 270: [Barcode: 39002140920464], Folder: 29
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:

Typescript letters, signed, concerning Fulton's interest in obtaining a copy of the Servetus Bible from Joan Gili (The Dolphin Book Company, Ltd.) for the Historical Library at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Dates: 1948 March 19-25

Harvey Williams Cushing Papers in the Yale University Library

 Collection
Call Number: MS 160
Abstract: The Harvey Williams Cushing Papers in the Yale University Library are composed of correspondence, subject files, writings, family papers, artifacts, and writings about Harvey Cushing. The papers document the personal life and professional career of a medical giant and pioneer neurosurgeon. They reveal Cushing as a doctor, teacher, soldier, administrator, bibliophile, and scientist, whose diverse achievements are important to the histories of the Harvard Medical School, Peter Bent Brigham...
Dates: 1745-1965, bulk 1887-1939

Department of the History of Science and Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, records

 Collection
Call Number: RU 738
Abstract: The records consist of administrative files, reports, correspondence, and personnel and student records documenting the Department of the History of Science and Medicine (known as the Department of the History of Medicine prior to 1959) at the Yale Medical School. Included are the records of the department chairs John Farquhar Fulton, Frederick Lawrence Holmes, Derek John de Solla Price, and Lloyd Grenfell Stevenson, and the correspondence of professors George Rosen and Henry Ernest...
Dates: 1949-1981

Elizabeth Harriet Thomson papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1623
Abstract:

The papers are composed of correspondence and project files which document Elizabeth Thomson's research and writing on the history of medicine. Additional material concerns her editorial and administrative work for John Fulton in the Yale University Department of the History of Medicine.

Dates: 1945-1990

John Farquhar Fulton papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1236
Abstract: The papers contain correspondence, memoranda, writings, photographs, and memorabilia, which document the career of John Farquhar Fulton as a neurophysiologist, medical historian, and bibliophile. The files also include personal and professional letters which reflect his involvement in organizations and projects including his work with the National Research Council, particularly in aviation medicine and in editing a medical history of World War II. Fulton's writings concern physiological and...
Dates: 1892-1988, bulk 1920-1960

Fulton-Wheatland Family Correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 38
Abstract:

Lucia Pickering Wheatland married John Fulton, who was in Oxford on a Rhodes fellowship, in 1923. The collection contains correspondence from Lucia and John Fulton in Oxford to Lucia's parents, Richard and Mary Wheatland, in Massachusetts. John Fulton was named professor of physiology at Yale in 1929.

Dates: 1921-1930, bulk 1923-1925

Ross Granville Harrison papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 263
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, administrative and teaching files, and research materials which document the personal life and professional career of Ross Granville Harrison. Correspondence with many academic, medical, and scientific figures is included, as are the records relating to Yale University's Department of Zoology (1920-1938) and Osborn Zoological Laboratory (1919-1938). Drafts of writings, lectures and related visual materials, research files, and photographs are also...
Dates: 1820-1975, bulk 1889-1959

Robert J. T. Joy Student Notes from Yale School of Medicine

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 18
Abstract:

Robert J. T. Joy graduated from Yale School of Medicine in 1954. The collection contains his student notes.

Dates: 1950-1954

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis Papers

 Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 20
Abstract: The Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis Papers consists of correspondence, writings, financial records, and other papers documenting the personal and professional activities and interests of the American author, editor, and collector Wilmarth Lewis and his wife Annie Burr Lewis. At their home in Farmington, Connecticut, the Lewises created a world-renowned collection of eighteenth-century print, graphic, and manuscript material related to the English author, connoisseur, and collector Horace Walpole...
Dates: 1800-1980, bulk 1926-1979

George Richards Minot papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1327
Abstract:

The papers include reprints, clippings, correspondence with John Fulton, and biographical material of George R. Minot.

Dates: 1915-1950

Miscellaneous letters collection

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 49
Abstract:

Miscellaneous Letters Collection is a collection of hundreds of individual letters or small groups of letters, mostly by physicians and scientists, either donated to the Historical Library or purchased.

Dates: 1649-1961

Ashley W. Oughterson collection

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 51
Abstract:

The collection includes a small amount of correspondence; a notebook including Oughterson's account of his travel to and first days in Japan in 1945; a form for examining those exposed to the atomic bomb; clippings and articles about Oughterson; obituaries including a lengthy memoir published separately by John F. Fulton and Eugene Davidson; photographs; and articles on military medicine and the atomic and H-bomb collected by Oughterson.

Dates: 1943-1959

John Punnett Peters papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 897
Abstract:

The papers contain correspondence, reports, writings, and personal papers of John Punnett Peters. The papers primarily document his crusade for national health insurance and his support for progressive causes and include materials on his disloyalty charge. Copies of many of his writings and speeches and personal correspondence and papers are also included. These papers are part of the Contemporary Medical Care and Health Policy Collection.

Dates: 1889-2006

Theodore C. Ruch correspondence

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 37
Abstract: Theordore C. Ruch, physiologist and primatologist, received his Ph.D. at Yale in physiology in 1933. The collection contains both sides of the correspondence between Ruch and his mentor, John F. Fulton, as well as related correspondence to/from Ruch or Fulton and others. Subjects include the publishing of Ruch's Bibliographia primatologica in 1941, Ruch's work with Fulton on editions of William Henry Howell's Textbook of...
Dates: 1932-1960

Henry Ernest Sigerist papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 788
Abstract: The papers consist of correspondence, notes, writings, lectures, photographs, and miscellanea documenting the personal life and professional career of Henry E. Sigerist. His student and teaching activities, writings on the history of medicine, concern for public health policies in the United States and Asia, cold war political interests, and other professional and personal concerns are documented in the papers. Sigerist corresponded with several prominent figures in the field of medicine....
Dates: 1891-1991

Madeline Earle Stanton papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1482
Abstract:

The papers include correspondence, diaries, writings, memorabilia, and photographs documenting Madeline Stanton's bibliographic and administrative support of the work of Harvey Cushing and John Fulton, as well as her personal affairs.

Dates: 1916-1983

Iser Steiman papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 27
Abstract: The papers consist primarily of letters between Iser Steiman and John F. Fulton from 1943 to Fulton's death in 1960. Both sides of the correspondence are available as Steiman kept copies of his own letters. Other correspondents include Madeline Stanton, Harriet Thomson, and Wiliam C. Gibson. Topics include avaiation medicine; Steiman's translations of Soviet Russian works on military medicine; and history of medicine. Also part of the collection is a copy of a typewritten autobiography by...
Dates: 1943-1975, bulk 1943-1960

Edward Clark Streeter collection

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 25
Abstract: Edward Clark Streeter, 1874-1947, was a graduate of Yale College in 1898 who practiced medicine in Chicago in the early part of his career. After his move to Boston in 1907, he became a book collector, a historian of medicine, and a friend and collaborator of Harvey Cushing on historical projects. When he moved to Stonington, Connecticut in 1928, he was appointed from 1939 to 1933 visiting professor of history of medicine at Yale. In 1941, he donated his collection of weights and measures...
Dates: 1921-1948

Erik Waller collection

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1341
Abstract:

The collection consists of correspondence and printed matter which document Erik Waller's bibliophilia. The collection, which was assembled in the Yale Medical Historical Library, includes Waller's correspondence with Harvey Cushing and John Fulton.

Dates: 1927-1955