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Yellow Fever

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Ernest Truby papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 16
Abstract

Lt. Albert Truby worked with Walter Reed's yellow fever experiments at Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba.

Dates: 1898-1954
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Correspondence of C.B. White

 Collection
Identifier: HMD MS ACC 701
Abstract

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Correspondence to and from C.B. White, medical purveyor in charge of the New Orleans area for the U.S. Army, 1864-1867. Separated from MS C 81, John Shaw Billings Papers.

Dates: 1864-1867
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Estudio subre las causas de la fiebra amarilla o vomito Negro y de las fiebres paludeas en la Ysla de Cuba, y su remedio, acaso el unico, Habana / Juan Carbonell y Marti

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 223
Abstract

Carbonell y Marti's Study of the causes of yellow fever or black vomit and other fevers on the island of Cuba.

Dates: 1879
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Fred Lowe Soper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 359
Abstract Dr. Fred Soper joined the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1920 and engaged in the hookworm campaigns in Brazil and Paraguay (1920-1927). From 1927-1942 he was Regional Director of the IHD, at Rio de Janeiro, and was active in the study and control of yellow fever and malaria. Dr. Soper was Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for three terms (1947-1959). The collection contains an extensive file of publications, notes, and other data relating to yellow...
Dates: 1919-1975
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

George B. Lawson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 79
Abstract

Contains a draft paper on yellow fever by Lawson with annotations by Robert P. Cooke; reprint of "The inside history of a great medical discovery," by Aristides Agramonte (1915), with signed note by the author; and letters written to Lawson by Mrs. Warren G. Jernegan. Warren G. Jernegan was a volunteer in the yellow fever experiments in Cuba.

Dates: 1915-1931
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

George Miller Sternberg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 100
Abstract

Contains correspondence, documents, certificates, and printed matter. Correspondence consists chiefly of congratulatory letters on becoming Surgeon General, acknowledgments for reprints, and letters from senators and congressmen pertaining to promotion to grade of major general. Printed matter consists of book reviews and information relating to inventions of Sternberg.

Dates: 1861-1917
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 212
Abstract The Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Incorporated (GMITP) was founded in 1921 and was named after William C. Gorgas. Gorgas was a U.S. Surgeon General and was known throughout the world as the conqueror of the mosquito and the malaria and yellow fever it transmits. His pioneer efforts in halting an epidemic of yellow fever enabled the United States to complete the Panama Canal. Its mission was to create a health education program to train researchers in tropical...
Dates: 1899-1992
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Havana Yellow Fever Commission Reports

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 31
Abstract

Contains reports, correspondence, printed matter, and statistics (1856-79) on yellow fever. Some of the reports and correspondence are addressed to Stanford E. Chaille.

Dates: 1856-1879
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Henry Rose Carter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 160
Abstract

Primarily reprints of articles by Carter and others on the epidemiology of yellow fever and malaria. Also contains some correspondence and notes.

Dates: 1899-1968
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

J. Austin Kerr letter : TLS, Chevy Chase, Maryland, to Ramon Cordoba Palacio, Medellin, Colombia

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 456
Abstract

Reminiscence of J. Austin Kerr's activities with yellow fever for the Rockefeller Foundation in Colombia during the 1930s.

Dates: 1974
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections