Scope and Contents
Professional papers of opthalmologist Arthur Meyer Yudkin, which includes correspondence with physicians, professors, patients, and other individuals, 1917-1942, as well as papers relating to Yudkin's "Lemon Juice Discovery" in 1939, in which he offered vitamins as a therapeutic measure for the treatment and prevention of ocular diseases.
Correspondents include ophthalmologist Percy H. Fridenberg, ophthalmologist Joseph Igersheimer, biochemist Lafayette B. Mendel, ophthalmologist Mark J. Schoenberg, and diabetes specialist William C. Stadie, as well as the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Connecticut Board of Education for the Blind, Connecticut School for the Blind (later known as Oak Hill School), and National Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
Dates
- 1917-1942
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred from the Yale University Historical Medical Library, 1980.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, followed by papers.
Extent
0.63 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
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Abstract
Professional papers of opthalmologist Arthur Meyer Yudkin, which includes correspondence with physicians, professors, patients, and other individuals, 1917-1942, as well as papers relating to Yudkin's "Lemon Juice Discovery" in 1939, in which he offered vitamins as a therapeutic measure for the treatment and prevention of ocular diseases.
Correspondents include ophthalmologist Percy H. Fridenberg, ophthalmologist Joseph Igersheimer, biochemist Lafayette B. Mendel, ophthalmologist Mark J. Schoenberg, and diabetes specialist William C. Stadie, as well as the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Connecticut Board of Education for the Blind, Connecticut School for the Blind (later known as Oak Hill School), and National Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
Arthur Meyer Yudkin (1892-1957)
Arthur Meyer Yudkin was born on December 31, 1892, in Ansonia, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale Sheffield Scientific School in 1914 and Yale School of Medicine in 1917. In 1925, he was hired onto the faculty of Yale School of Medicine. A specialist in ophthalmology, he was a president and founder of the New York Society for Clinical Ophthalmology. He died of a heart attack on May 2, 1957.
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This finding aid was revised in 2023.
- American Academy of Ophthalmology
- Connecticut. Board of Education of the Blind
- Fridenberg, Percy H., 1868-1960
- Igersheimer, Joseph, 1879-1965
- Lemon juice
- Medicine
- Mendel, Lafayette B. (Lafayette Benedict), 1872-1935
- National Society for the Prevention of Blindness
- Oak Hill School (Hartford, Conn.)
- Ophthalmologists -- Connecticut
- Ophthalmologists -- Connecticut -- 20th century
- Ophthalmologists -- New York (State)
- Ophthalmologists -- New York (State) -- 20th century
- Ophthalmology
- Physicians
- Schoenberg, Mark J., 1874-1945
- Stadie, William C., 1886-1959
- Vitamin C -- Therapeutic use
- Yale University. School of Medicine -- Faculty
- Yudkin, Arthur Meyer, 1892-1957
- Title
- Guide to the Arthur Meyer Yudkin Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- compiled by Staff of Manuscripts and Archives
- Date
- January 2004, updated April 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
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