Abstract
Correspondence, personal diaries, and recollections of director of Medical Society of District of Columbia, 1938-1963.
Dates
- 1937-1979
Extent
0.42 Linear Feet (1 box)
Creator
- Wiprud, Theodore, 1891-1978 (Person)
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
Language of Materials
Collection materials primarily in English
Restrictions
Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access.
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Biographical Note
Theodore Wiprud served as executive director and secretary of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia from 1938 to 1963. During that period he was also managing editor of the Medical Annals of the District of Columbia.
Collection Summary
Includes correspondence, memoranda, diaries, "profiles" of physicians, and draft titled Inside organized medicine. Materials relate to the economics of medical care, national health insurance, and the development of a national health program. Correspondents include Michael M. Davis, Oscar Ewing, Morris Fishbein, Paul R. Hawley, Ross McIntire, Paul V. McNutt, James C. Magee, William J. Mallory, Joseph W. Martin, Jr., James E. Murray, Howard A. Rusk, Howard Schriver, Frank C. Watters, and Olin West. Letters from Howard McC. Snyder pertain to the illness of President Eisenhower in 1955. Subjects of profiles are Raymond G. Arveson, Daniel LeRay Borden, Ralph M. Caulk, Arthur C. Christie, Frank D. Costenbader, W. Montague Cobb, Coursen Baxter Conklin, Edward Young Davidson, Morris Fishbein, Walter Freeman, Robert H. Groh, Clifton R. Gruver, William P. Herbst, Raymond T. Holden, R. Arthur Hooe, Oscar B. Hunter, Hugh H. Hussey, Joseph S. Lawrence, Francis Xavier McGovern, William Johnston Mallory, Thomas E. Mattingly, W. Cabell Moore, Thomas A. Neill, John Benjamin Nichols, Thomas Parran, Herbert P. Ramsey, Donald Harrison Stubbs, Olin West, and Wallace M. Yater.
Abstract
Correspondence, personal diaries, and recollections of director of Medical Society of District of Columbia, 1938-1963.
Physical Location
Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine
General
- Processed by
- HMD Staff; Jim Labosier
- Processing Completed
- 2004
- Encoded by
- Jim Labosier
Creator
- Wiprud, Theodore, 1891-1978 (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Theodore Wiprud Papers, 1937-1979
- Status
- Unverified Partial Draft
- Author
- Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
- Date
- 2004
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English
- Edition statement
- 1.0
Collecting Area Details
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