James Ewing Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: MS C 92

Collection Summary

Letters from Col. William Otway Owen seeking the services of Dr. Ewing for the Army Medical Museum. Ewing was professor of pathology at Cornell University. Correspondence documents Ewing's acceptance, the contract terms of his work, an article for Military Surgeon he wrote, asking assistance for collecting and arranging pathological material from WWI to become part of Army Medical Museum. Papers include two drafts of "The place of pathological anatomy in military medicin" and one draft of "Military aspects of status lymphaticus."

Dates

Creation: 1918-1919

Extent

0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)

Creator

Ewing, James, 1866-1943 (Person)

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite. History of Medicine Division. National Library of Medicine

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English

Restrictions

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Biographical Note

James Ewing was the first chair of Clinical Pathology at Cornell University. He founded the Journal of Cancer Research, and was a founding member of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Cancer Society.

Colonel William Otway Owen graduated from the University of Virginia Department of Medicine, 1878. He joined the U.S. Army Medical Corps as assistant surgeon in 1882. A professor of anatomy at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Colonel Owen also served as Curator at Army Medical Museum 1916-1918. Among his writings are: A chronological arrangement of congressional legislation relating to the Medical Corps of the United States Army from 1785 to 1917 (1918), The Medical department of the United States army (legislative and administrative history) during the period of the revolution (1776-1786) (1920).