Box 2

Collection Summary From the Collection: Patient records, correspondence, administrative records, lectures, writings, and motion picture films and videos document the surgical, teaching, hospital administrative, and editorial and writing career of pediatric surgeon Mark M. Ravitch, perhaps best known as an expert on the correction of chest-wall deformities in children and as a pioneer in the use of mechanical suturing in surgery. The collection is especially rich in surgical records and patient/physician correspondence, records of...