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Ronald H. Fishbein collection on the Nathan Smith family

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 24
Abstract:

The collection contains materials collected by Ronald H. Fishbein (1931-2015) related to Nathan Smith (1762-1829) and his family. Nathan Smith was a physician, teacher, and author, who founded the Dartmouth Medical School and co-founded the Yale School of Medicine. Materials in the collection include family history manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence with Nathan Smith authors and biographers, and a typescript of an article by Fishbein.

Dates: 1830-2005

Helen Forbes collection on medical wives

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 31
Abstract: This collection documents some of Helen Forbes's activities as a medical faculty wife in the mid-twentieth century. Papers include lists of which faculty wives were responsible for daily student teas; account books and statistics on attendance at teas; newspaper clippings and other information on the annual Aesculapian Frolics; bylaws and a small amount of information and newspaper clippings on the activities of the Medical Dames/Wives; lists of married students; and a recetion for the...
Dates: 1947-1969

M. Felix Freshwater papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 55
Abstract: M. Felix Freshwater, M.D. (1948-2016) was a prominent plastic surgeon specializing in hand surgery and microsurgery. Freshwater graduated from the Yale School of Medicine in 1972, completed residencies at Yale New Haven Hospital and the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center, held fellowships at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the University of Louisville/Jewish Hospital in Louisville, KY, and was in private practice from 1979 to 2016 at the Miami Institute of...
Dates: circa 1940-2016

Fulton-Wheatland Family Correspondence

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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

Myron Genel papers

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Call Number: Ms Coll 71
Abstract: Myron Genel, M.D. is a professor emeritus of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. During his career at Yale, he was chief of the section of pediatric endocrinology, program director of the Children's Clinical Research Center, and Associate Dean, Government and Community Affairs. The collection documents Dr. Genel's work with organizations and government committees on a variety of topics including public health policies for pediatric medicine, fetal tissue research, gender...
Dates: 1974-2016

Arnold Gesell and Colleagues Publications collection

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Call Number: Ms Coll 41
Abstract: Arnold Gesell was head of the Psycho-Clinic and later of the Clinic of Child Development at the Yale School of Medicine from 1911 to 1948. Some of his former collaborators founded the Gesell Institute for Child Development in 1950 in New Haven to carry on his work. The collection contains non-book publications by Arnold Gesell and his collaborators as well as of some of the staff members of the Gesell Institute. Publications include not only reprints of professional articles, but also...
Dates: 1922-1991, bulk 1930-1959

Hall-Benedict Drug Company logbooks and ledgers

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Call Number: Ms Coll 66
Abstract:

The collection documents the business activities of the Hall-Benedict Drug Company, a pharmacy in New Haven, Connecticut, from 1909 to circa 1980. The collection contains prescription logbooks, financial ledgers in bound volumes and loose pages, customer account/address cards, and a newspaper article.

Dates: Circa 1909-1980

Bert Hansen collection of historical newspaper research

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Call Number: Ms Coll 72
Content Description:

The collection includes photocopies of articles with medical themes from historical newspapers created by Bert Hansen while conducting research for a publication on medical history and mass media. Topics include rabies (hydrophobia) and rabies vaccine; Louis Pasteur; diphtheria; smallpox; food safety; prevention of cruelty to animals; and various medical treatments. Most photocopies are from microfilm resources and have been annotated by Hansen.

Dates: 1880-1889

James Augustine Haran papers

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Call Number: Ms Coll 59
Abstract: The papers include degrees from Trinity College, Dublin; certificates of hospital training; Haran's appointment as Medical Officer in the East Africa Protectorate; various reports on the plague in Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, and the Gold Coast; his work during the war as Deputy Principal Medical Officer of the East African Protectorate; and other reports and correspondence. Of note are a map of Kisumu showing plague areas, and a broadside on the plague in the Gold Coast. The collection also...
Dates: 1890-1937

William Helfand collection of medical ephemera

 Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 8
Abstract: The collection contains printed ephemera related to medicine and pharmacy either arranged in albums by William Helfand or donated in loose form. These include trade cards (some on marijuana and street drugs), postcards, advertisements in various formats for patent medicines and devices, advertisements for cancer cures, playing cards, cards of famous scientists and physicians, stock certificates for pharmaceutical companies, photographs of old pharmacies, pharmacy prescription envelopes,...
Dates: 1817-2007

Ira V. Hiscock collection

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Call Number: Ms Coll 45
Abstract:

The collection contains public health surveys by Hiscock and others; some correspondence; materials related to Hiscock's activities in Yale-in-China and the World Health Assembly; materials on Hiscock's awards; photographs and memorabilia on the dedication of the Ira V. Hiscock Library; and memorabilia that were to be assembled in scrapbooks, especially from the period after his retirement.

Dates: 1914-1987, bulk 1930-1973

Hospital annual reports and ephemera collection

 Collection
Call Number: Pam Coll 2
Abstract:

Annual or biennial reports and other pamphlets issued by hospitals in China, Great Britain (especially London), and the United States. The states best represented are Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. Types of hospitals include general hospitals, specialty hospitals (children's, eye, lying-in, etc.), dispensaries, asylums, and homeopathic hospitals. About 200 hospitals are represented in this collection.

Dates: 1805-1969, bulk 1840-1900

G. D. Hsiung papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 48
Abstract:

G. D. (Edith) Hsiung was head of the Virology Laboratory at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, founder and director of the national Viral Reference Laboratory for the VA, and professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Yale. The collection includes correspondence, descriptions of her courses and special workshops, presentations, scrapbooks, photographs, reprints of articles, laboratory notebooks, and research manuscripts.

Dates: 1950-2006

Joan K. Jackson Diary on Stanley W. Jackson's Medical Training

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Call Number: Ms Coll 21
Abstract:

Joan K. Jackson, as a graduate student in sociology at McGill University, began a diary on the experiences and views of her husband Stanley K. Jackson and of his fellow students to their medical education at the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University. The diary covers Stanley W. Jackson's third and fourth years at McGill and a year of internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Dates: 1948-1951

Joan K. Jackson papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 54
Scope and Contents:

The papers include Joan Jackson's masters' degree research, her masters' thesis, correrspondence, presentations, grant applications, and publications, and a scrapbook documenting her successful career at University of Washington. The second part of the collection documents her role as a Class A Trustee (i.e. non-alcoholic) of the General Study Board of Alcoholics Anonymous from 1983 to 1992, incuding her presentations and publications.

Dates: 1946-2016

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

Kristaps J. Keggi Vietnam War service papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 29
Abstract:

Kristaps J. Keggi was a graduate of Yale and Yale School of Medicine who served as a surgeon during the Vietnam War in 1965-1966. He later became Professor of Orthopaedics at Yale School of Medicine. The collection contains contemporary correspondence, photographs, patient records (restricted), drawings of wound management, later reminiscences, and later drawings and presentation on Keggi's role in deveoping the anterior approach to total hip replacement, 1977-2018.

Dates: 1918-2018, bulk 1965-1966

Katharine Ketcham collection

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Call Number: Ms Coll 95
Content Description: The collection includes materials related to Katharine Ketcham (1915-1999), Yale School of Nursing class of 1939. Items include a manuscript diary dated July 1942-September 1944 written by Ketcham about her World War II experiences: training at Camp Edwards, travelling across the United States and awaiting assignment; voyage to New Zealand and experiences while serving as an RN, captain rank, attached to the United States Army 39th General Hospital, Yale Unit. Also included is a copy of a...
Dates: 1942-1952, circa 1998

Thomas L. Lentz collection on the history of cell biology and anatomy at Yale

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 57
Abstract:

Thomas L. Lentz served as professor of cell biology and associate dean of admissions at Yale School of Medicine. The collection contains autobiographical material on Dr. Lentz, his histories of cell biology and of histology at Yale, and reprints of his articles. Also included are teaching materials for Lentz's laboratory course on histology, published materials related to the Department of Cell Biology, and photographs of faculty members and students.

Dates: 1899-2015

Averill A. Liebow Collection

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 28
Abstract: Averill A. Liebow, professor of pathology at Yale School of Medicine, was a member of the Joint Commission for the Investigation of the Effects of the Atomic Bomb in Japan organized by Col. Ashley W. Oughterson, on leave from Yale. Liebow spent four months in Hiroshima beginning in October 1945 and kept a diary. The collection contains photographs and documents from an exhibit on the Joint Commission and the medical effects of the bomb in Hiroshima that was prepared for the Medical Library...
Dates: 1945-1966, bulk 1945-1966