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Medicine -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

American Association for the History of Medicine records

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1266
Abstract:

The records include programs and correspondence of the American Association for the History of Medicine.

Dates: 1940-1969

Stanley B. Burns, M.D., historic medical photography collection

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 76
Abstract: The collection includes photographic plates and prints collected by Stanley B. Burns, M.D., that document medical practice and medical practitioners circa 1840 through the 1970s. The collection includes items created using multiple photographic techniques and supports including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, lantern slides, photographic negatives, cartes de visite, cabinet photographs (cabinet cards), stereoscopic photographs, panoramic photographs, picture postcards, gelatin silver...
Dates: Circa 1840-1979

"The Doctor" by Sir Luke Fildes collection

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 69
Abstract: The collection consists of commercial reproductions of Sir Luke Fildes' painting "The Doctor." The painting, completed in 1891, depicts a seated physician attending an ill child in a modest cottage while her anxious parents wait in the background. It has been interpreted as representing the qualities of an ideal physician and has been widely reproduced in multiple formats for decorative and advertising purposes. Items in the collection include prints, advertisements, publications, stamps,...
Dates: circa 1891 - 2005

William Fergusson papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1287
Abstract:

The papers consist of letters and other materials which document the military career of William Fergusson, a British physician. The papers detail Fergusson's experiences in Portugal, during the Peninsular War, and include material relating to the administration of military hospitals. Typescripts of several items are included in the papers.

Dates: 1808-1814

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

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

Samuel Clark Harvey papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1244
Abstract:

Personal and professional papers of Samuel Clark Harvey.

Dates: 1796-1994, bulk 1907-1953

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

Arnold Carl Klebs papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1297
Abstract:

The papers consist of correspondence, research notes, manuscripts, printed matter, and photographs.

Dates: 1850-1947

John Edward Lane papers

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 338
Abstract: Correspondence and research files. Correspondence includes letters to Lane, with copies of some of his replies, regarding the Beaumont Medical Club, and in response to articles by Lane on William Henry Carmalt, Jean-Francois Coste, Robert Willan, and other subjects. Research files include articles, clippings and notes, in folders entitled "Medical History - General","Medical History - France - École de Médicine, Montpellier", "Medical History - France - St. Louis Hospital, Paris",...
Dates: 1902-1933

Gustaf E. Lindskog Papers

 Collection
Call Number: Ms Coll 34
Abstract:

Thoracic surgeon Gustaf Lindskog was a member of the Department of Surgery from 1933 until his retirement in 1971. He chaired the department from 1948 to 1966. The collection consists primarily of his reports as head of the Thoracic Surgery Service of New Haven Hospital, talks including history of surgery lectures given at Yale, medical illustrations, and reprints. The restricted boxes contain Lindskog's notes on his surgical operations on named patients.

Dates: 1929-1987

Program in History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, prize-winning essays

 Collection
Call Number: RU 1056
Abstract:

The materials consist of history of science and medicine prize-winning essays written by Yale College seniors.

Dates: 2007

Gloria Robinson student papers

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Call Number: Ms Coll 87
Abstract: Gloria Robinson (1924-2017) was a painter and medical illustrator. After completing a PhD in History of Science and Medicine from the Yale School of Medicine in 1969 she was a research affiliate and lecturer in the Yale History of Medicine Department and author of A Prelude to Genetics: Theories of a Material Substance of Heredity From Darwin to Weissman. The collection contains notes, papers, and syllabi from the History of Medicine course she attended in...
Dates: 1963-1964

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

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 Papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 1667
Abstract:

The papers are composed of letters addressed to Edward Clark Streeter from Fielding H. Garrison and others.

Dates: 1914-1932

Benajah Ticknor papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 495
Abstract:

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

Arthur Jack Viseltear papers

 Collection
Call Number: MS 811
Abstract:

The papers document Arthur Jack Viseltear's scholarship and professional interests in the field of public health. They include materials related to his teaching and research, documentation of his professional activities, and personal papers which include his diaries from 1974 to 1989. Unpublished writings include research notebooks for his biography of C.-E. A. Winslow and tapes and transcripts of interviews for his study of the contemporary Yale School of Medicine of his time.

Dates: 1953-1990