NLM History of Medicine Finding Aids

John Adriani Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS C 453

The collection contains little material from Adriani's youth, and none from his childhood. Most of the collection reflects Adriani's career in anesthesiology after it began to flower in the late 1940s. The great bulk of the material dates from between the 1950s and the 1980s, and it consists mostly of typed correspondence, memoranda, reports, manuscripts and printed materials. Adriani maintained a personal correspondence for many years with FDA officials, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and Congressional staff as well as with other physicians. The collection will be of use to those researching the history of anesthesiology, nurse-anesthesia, medical education, the pharmaceutical industry and its regulation by the government, hospital administration, and health-care policy and planning in mid-twentieth century America.

Restrictions: Portions of the collection are restricted according to HMD's Access to Health Information of Individuals. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For access to the policy and application form, please visit https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/phi.pdf.
Dates: Creation: 1925-1988
Extent: 50 Linear Feet (123 boxes)
Related Names: Adriani, John, 1907-1988; Arens, James F. (James Frederick), 1934-; Batten, Douglass H.; Cohn, Isidore, 1921-; Drapanas, Theodore, 1930-; Keats, Arthur S. (Arthur Stanley), 1923-; Keown, Kenneth K., 1917-; McQuillen, Florence A.; Ochsner, Alton, 1907-; Parmley, Ray T. (Ray Tim), 1919-; Rovenstine, Emery Andrew, 1895-1960.; Sappenfield, Ralph S., 1907-; Shirkey, Harry Cameron; Thomas, Charles C. (Charles Crankshaw), 1904-; Thomas, Payne E.L. (Edward Lloyd), 1919-; Volpitto, Perry P.; Winnie, Alon P.; Academy of Anesthesiology; American Association of Nurse Anesthetists; American Board of Anesthesiology; American Medical Association; Council on Drugs (American Medical Association); American Society of Anesthesiologists; American Society of Regional Anesthesia; Arnar-Stone Laboratories; Charity Hospital (New Orleans, La.); Charles C. Thomas, Publisher; Columbia University. College of Physicians and Surgeons; Gulf South Research Institute; Health Education Authority of Louisiana; Louisiana State Medical Society; LSU School of Medicine, New Orleans; McNeil Laboratories; Sharp & Dohme; Squibb Institute for Medical Research; Tulane University. School of Medicine; United States. Food and Drug Administration; United States Pharmacopœial Convention; W.B. Saunders Company; Winthrop Laboratories, Inc.
Language of Materials: English
Script: Latn

Personal and Biographical, 1925-1988

Series

The Personal Series contains items on Adriani's personal life, his education and training, and highlights of his professional career. It would be valuable to the researcher interested in biographical details of Adriani's life. Among the notable items in the series are a group of family letters written by Eleanor Adriani in the early 1940s; compositions written by Adriani for his high school English classes in the mid-1920s; notes from his medical school classes in the late 1920s and early 1930s; a detailed handwritten notebook outlining the epidemiology, pathology, clinical course, and treatment of various diseases (undated, probably 1930s); an account of Adriani's surgical internship at the French Hospital in New York City (1934-36); a file of correspondence among his former residents, Glace E. Bittenbinder, Ray Parmley and John Parmley regarding plans for his fifteenth anniversary at Charity Hospital in 1955; photographs of Adriani and information on his awards. Also found in the series are press clippings and copies of articles about Adriani and his various awards, his Congressional committee testimony, his public statements, and other events.