National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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Material assembled by Jaroslav Nemec as part of his work at the National Library of Medicine. Included are short biographies of important figures in forensic medicine, a directory of institutes of legal medicine, two narrative articles, and correspondence and other material resulting from a project to identify all conference, congresses, and meetings on legal medicine.

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Michael Ellis DeBakey made significant contributions to cardiovascular medicine throughout his long career at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Personal material, correspondence, administrative and medical records, writings, conference and awards files, subject files, photographs, audiovisual media, and artifacts gathered from DeBakey's home document his personal life and career as a surgeon, inventor, and medical statesman.

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Collection of items gathered for their autographs of significant figures in the history of medicine, the NLM, and world history.

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Miscellaneous reel-to-reel tape recordings pertaining to the history of the National Library of Medicine found in HMD.

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Dr. Jarcho's principal fields of interest include internal medicine and medical history. He has published more than 200 articles and sixty book reviews on clinical medicine, pathology, the history of medicine, paleopathology, and cartography. A sizable part of the collection consists of correspondence relating to the subject of the history of medicine and to the activities of the National Library of Medicine.

Abstract The suit charged that the libraries had violated the company's copyright by duplicating for interlibrary loan articles from journals published by Williams & Wilkins. The case was settled by a split decision of the Supreme Court upholding the appeals court verdict that found for the government. Included are files from Martin Cummings and Scott Adams, the Director and Deputy Director of the Library, and Albert Berkowitz, the Reference Services Division Section Chief, as well as subject and...

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Material Wyndham Miles accumulated during the course of preparing the history.