Medicine -- United States
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Beer family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 73
Overview:
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, photographs, printed material, and other papers documenting the personal lives and professional careers of the Beer family. Extensive files of correspondence and papers for family members from the 1850s through the 1980s detail the lives and activities of such family members as William Collins Beer, a lobbyist for J.P. Morgan and Company, International Harvester Company, and the government of Italy, and a close friend of Mark Hanna; Thomas Beer, a...
Dates:
1740-1981, bulk 1827-1981
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Beer family papers
Job Clark papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 18
Overview:
Notebooks of an early student at the Yale Medical School (ca.1815) on lectures by Silliman, Ives & Smith; notebooks on his medical practice; medical reference and prescription notebooks; Ravenna, Ohio, meteorological journals; miscellaneous medical notes and printed material. An addition to the collection comprises personal correspondence of Job Clark and family members, as well as journal entries and writings.
Dates:
1810-1882
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Job Clark papers
M. Felix Freshwater papers
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 55
Overview:
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 Hand...
Dates:
circa 1940-2016
Alexander Bryan Johnson papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 741
Overview:
The papers consist almost entirely of letters between Alexander Johnson and members of his family, with a small number relating to his business affairs and publications. Also included is a genealogical chart showing the ancestry of his first wife, Abigail Louisa Adams.
Dates:
1823-1861
Miscellaneous letters collection
Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 49
Overview:
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
Bernadotte Perrin papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1018
Overview:
Student notes on lectures in literature and the classics Perrin attended in Berlin (1876-1878), notes for lectures at Adelbert College and Yale University, corrected proofs for a volume of Plutarch's Lives, and miscellaneous personal papers, largely relating to Perrin's office as writer of the presentations for the honorary degrees at Yale University commencements (1902-1911). Included also is a small amount of correspondence about his publications and five...
Dates:
1876-1914
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Bernadotte Perrin papers
Theophil Mitchell Prudden papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1051
Overview:
Chiefly correspondence relating to medicine, public health and details on laboratory techniques at the turn of the century.Important medical correspondents include Richard H. Derby, Alva H. Doty, Henry Hun, Abraham Jacobi, Charles McBurney, W.P. Northhrup, Edward L. Trudeau, Ira Van Gieson, William Henry Welch, and in Germany, Julius Arnold, Robert Koch and Rudolf Virchow. Prudden's interest in the Indians of Southwestern United States is documented in his correspondence with anthropologists...
Dates:
1872-1925
Henry Ernest Sigerist papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 788
Overview:
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. These...
Dates:
1891-1991
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Henry Ernest Sigerist papers
Dr. Thomas Siveter papers
Collection — Box 1
Call Number: Ms Coll 92
Scope and Contents:
The collection includes materials from Iowa physician Thomas Siveter (1800-1893), a prominent surgeon in Salem, Iowa from 1845-1893 and a founding member of the Iowa State Medical Society. The collection includes a patient logbook, advertisements for medications and medical products, correspondence, and a few items of ephemera.
Dates:
circa 1880 - 1882
Benajah Ticknor papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 495
Overview:
Journals, letterbook, medical notes, and essays of Benajah Ticknor, doctor and surgeon with the U.S. Navy. Of primary importance are the journals which describe journeys made by Ticknor with the Navy to South America, the Far East, and Europe.
Dates:
1818-1852
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Benajah Ticknor papers
Edwin Richard Weinerman papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 692
Overview:
Correspondence, consultations, surveys, writings, printed material, and other papers of Edwin Richard Weinerman. Material primarily reflects Weinerman's interest in public health and deals with his activities both as a consultant and administrator with various public and private health careorganizations, including the U. S. Public Health Service, Permanente Health Plan, American Public Health Association, and the Yale-New Haven Hospital. A significant part of the collection also relates to...
Dates:
1908-1970