Joseph J. Kinyoun Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS C 464

Abstract

Physician, bacteriologist, first director of the Hygienic Laboratory. M.D. from Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1882; Ph.D., Georgetown University, 1896. From 1887 to 1899 directed Hygienic Laboratory for the Marine Hospital Service, and from 1899 to 1901 directed plague activities in San Francisco.

Dates

Creation: 1899-1939

Extent

0.4 Linear Feet (1 box)

Creator

Kinyoun, Joseph J. (Joseph James), 1860-1919 (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

Born in East Bend, N.C., on 25 November 1860, Joseph James Kinyoun was raised in Centre View, Missouri. After studying for a year at the St. Louis Medical College, he attended the Bellevue Hospital Medical College where he received his M.D. degree in 1882. He also studied at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities, receiving a Ph.D. degree from the latter in 1896. He joined the Marine Hospital Service in 1886 and the following year established in a one-room laboratory on Staten Island, N.Y., the Hygienic Laboratory, later to become the National Institutes of Health. Kinyoun served as its director until 30 April 1899 at which time he was directed to assume command of the San Francisco Quarantine Station. He was soon embroiled in a controversy over the nature and extent of an outbreak of bubonic plague in San Francisco, was relieved of his duties on 6 April 1901, and resigned from the service on 19 April 1902. After serving for a short time as research director for the H.K. Mulford Co. of Glenolden, Pa., he returned to Washington where he took up a private practice, directed the bacteriological laboratory for the District of Columbia, and, at the time of his death on 15 February 1919, was serving as the director of the Army Medical Museum.

Collection Summary

Correspondence, clippings, photographs, and reprints relating primarily to Kinyoun's service in San Francisco as director of the Marine Hospital Service's efforts to combat bubonic plague. Also includes Kinyoun's own reprints and some later clippings on Henry Rose Carter and the H.R. Carter Laboratory. The Kinyoun papers in the National Library of Medicine consist of a small collection of manuscript items, reprints, and photographs primarily relating to Kinyoun's experience in San Francisco. Of particular note are the three long typed copies of letters detailing Kinyoun's experiences with the plague. A large collection of reprints of articles by others accompanied the donation; these have been transferred to the library's printed collections.

Additional Description

Abstract

Physical Location

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

Provenance

Papers were collected by Kinyoun's daughter, Alice Houts, and loaned to Dr. Robert Hudson before their final deposit in the National Library of Medicine. The bulk of Dr. Kinyoun's personal papers (seventy-five file boxes of correspondence to Dr. Kinyoun from other Public Health Service officers) is thought to be destroyed.

Related Material

An earlier donation of photographs from Houts is found in the Prints and Photographs collection. Many books from Kinyoun's personal library were given by Mrs. Houts to the Clendenning Medical Library in Kansas City.

Separated Material

The following reprints were removed from the collection and transferred to the library's printed collections:

Abstract of Sanitary Reports 7:39 (23 Sept. 1892)
Barker, Lewellys F., and Joseph Marshall Flint, "A visit to the plague districts in India." New York Medical Journal, February 3, 1900 [2 copies]
Barker, Lewellys F., "Syphilis and internal medicine." New York Medical Journal [incorporating the Philadelphia Medical Journal and the Medical News], February 26, 1916
Barker, Lewellys F. "Theodore Caldwell Janeway," Science N.S. 47: 1212 (March 22 1918): 273-279.
Bourges, H., ed. Suite de Monographies Cliniques sur les Questions Nouvelles en Médecine en Chirurgie, en Biologie, no. 20: La Peste (épidémiologie--Bactériologie--Prophylaxie). Paris: Masson et Compagnie, 1899
Carroll, James, "The treatment of yellow fever." Journal of the American Medical Association, July 19, 1902 [2 copies]
Carroll, James, "The etiology of yellow fever." Journal of the American Medical Association, November 28, 1903
Carroll, James, "A brief review of the aetiology of yellow fever." New York Journal and Philadelphia Medical Journal [consolidated], February 6 and 13, 1904
Carter, H. R., "A note on the spread of yellow fever in houses: extrinsic incubation." Medical Record, June 15, 1901
Carter, H. R., "Some characteristics of stegomyia fasciata which affect its conveyance of yellow fever." Medical Record, May 14, 1904
Flexner, Simon, and Lewellys F. Barker, "A contribution to our knowledge of epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis." American Journal of the Medical Sciences, February and March, 1894
Flexner, Simon, "A study of the bacillus (leptothrix?) pyogenes filiformis (nov. spec.) and of its pathogenic action." Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1:2, 1896
Flexner, Simon, "Aoyoma's report on the bubonic plague." Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, Nos. 66-67, September-October, 1896
Fraenkel, Carl, and Richard Pfeiffer, Mikrophotographischer atlas der bakterienkunde. Berlin: Verlag von August Hirschwald, 1890
Gorham, F. P. "Some biochemical problems in bacteriology." Science, XXXV:897, March 8, 1912
Guitéras, John. "Observations on the marrow of the bone and the spleen in a case of leukemia." Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, 1895
Kitasato, S., T. Takaki, K. Shiga, and G. Moriya, Bericht über die Pestepidemie in Kobe und _saka. Office of the Minister of the Interior: Tokyo, 1900.
Magruder, G. Lloyd, "The milk supply of Washington, D.C." Journal of the American Medical Association, September 28, 1907
McCulloch, Champe Carter, "The scientific and administrative achievement of the medical corps of the United States Army." Scientific Monthly, May 1917
McCulloch, Champe Carter, "Sanitation in the trenches." Journal of the American Medical Association, July 14 and July 21, 1917
Nocht, and G. Giemsa."über die Vernichtung von Ratten an Bord von Schiffen als Massregel gegen die Einschleppung der Pest." Arbeiten aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte, XX:1, 1903
Official list of medical officers of the U.S. Marine-Hospital Service. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1888.
Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States. Official List of Commissioned and other Officers of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service of the United States. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1909
Rangé, C. "étude sur l'épidémie de fiévre jaune ayant sévi aux îles du salut (Guyane)." Arch. de Méd. Nav., February 1886
Ravenel, Mazyck P. "Report on the comparative study of various forms of tuberculosis." American Medicine, X:24, December 9, 1905
Raynaud, L. Essais de sérothérapie contre le typhus exanthématique [pamphlet]. Algiers: Charles Zamith et Compagnie, 1896.
Reed, Walter, James Carroll, A. Agramonte, and Jesse W. Lazear, "The etiology of yellow fever: a preliminary note." Philadelphia Medical Journal, October 27, 1900
Reed, Walter, James Carroll, and Aristides Agramonte, "The etiology of yellow fever: an additional note." Journal of the American Medical Association, February 16, 1901
Reed, Walter, "The propagation of yellow fever; observations based on recent researches." Medical Record, August 10, 1901
Reed, Walter, and James Carroll, "The prevention of yellow fever." Medical Record, October 26, 1901
Rosenau, M. J. "Preliminary note on the viability of the bacillus pestis." Public Health Reports, May 25, 1990 (reprinted Bulletin of the Hygienic Laboratory)
Russell, F. F. "Anti-typhoid vaccination. The immediate results of the administration of 3900 doses." Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin, XXI:228, March 1910
Schroeder, E. C. "Some observations on rabies." Twenty-third Annual Report on the Bureau of Animal Industry [U.S. Department of Agriculture], 1906
Thayer, William Sydney, "Note on the value of guaiacol applied externally as an antipyretic." The Medical News, March 31, 1894
Thayer, William Sydney, "An address on malarial fever delivered before the Cleveland Medical Society." Cleveland Journal of Medicine, June 1897
Thayer, William Sydney, "On nephritis of malarial origin." Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, 1898
Thayer, William Sydney, "On the parasites of malarial fever." Yale Medical Journal, January 1898
Thayer, William Sydney, "Remarks on typhoid fever." St. Paul Medical Journal, April 1902
Vaughan, George Tully, "A new operation for the radical cure of inguinal hernia." Journal of the American Medical Association, July 25, 1896
Walter Reed: A Memoir [pamphlet]. Washington: Walter Reed Memorial Association, 1904
Welch, William H. "Bacteriological investigations of diphtheria in the United States." American Journal of the Medical Sciences, October 1894