Biographical sketches on note cards for AMA-member physicians that died between 1906-1969.

Contains biographical data on physicians graduating from American medical schools whose names are not in American Medical Association directories.

Biography of S. M. Bemiss, a Kentucky physician who later served in the Confederate army, taught at the Universities of Louisville and Louisiana, edited the New Orleans medical and surgical journal, and served as chairman of the Yellow Fever Commission and the committee on contagious diseases of the National Board of Health.

Clippings relate chiefly to his "fixed period" address at Johns Hopkins in 1905, and his death in 1919.

Correspondence, biographical data, and draft. Letters refer chiefly to literature by Kagan, published or in process of publication.

Sketches requested of U.S. naval medical officers by the Surgeon General of the Army in 1933.

Consists of an unpublished manuscript describing the life of William Thornton, physician, painter, inventor, and architect. Thornton was architect of the Capitol until 1802.

Correspondence, personal diaries, and recollections of director of Medical Society of District of Columbia, 1938-1963.

Typescript biographical sketch of Thomas Lawson, Surgeon General of the United States Army.