History of Medicine

The collection documents a small portion of the personal life and professional activities of Dr. Neumann.

Jean Francois Coste,1741-1819, served as director of the medical staff and chief physician for the French expeditionary forces aiding America in the war of independence. Harold Justin Abrahams, 1901-, was a research associate at the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia specializing in the history of chemistry and the history of medicine.

Typescript. Capitulo 1: Los medicos en el descubrimieto de America; capitulo 2: La primeras epidemias en las misiones guaranies siglo XVI.

James Harvey Young (b. 1915) is an internationally recognized authority on American food and drug regulation and the history of health quackery in the United States. The collection consists of the research correspondence that comprised Dr. Young's office files.

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Includes materials from AAHM, SFCP, National Library of Medicine programs, miscellaneous history of medicine societies and on the history of medicine in general. Materials dated from the tenure as vice president, president, and immediate past president Dr. Jeanne L. Brand and includes her correspondence.

Original typescript drafts and notes compiled by the author.

Consists of correspondence relating to a survey of Saint Hildegard manuscripts.

Dr. Jarcho's principal fields of interest include internal medicine and medical history. He has published more than 200 articles and sixty book reviews on clinical medicine, pathology, the history of medicine, paleopathology, and cartography. A sizable part of the collection consists of correspondence relating to the subject of the history of medicine and to the activities of the National Library of Medicine.

Subjects include family background, education, service in World War I and II, Dr. Bayne-Jones' association with the Johns Hopkins University Medical School, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Yale University School of Medicine, New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, Tulane University School of Medicine, U. S. Army Surgeon General's Office, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Correspondence, printed matter, and completed survey forms relating to a survey of medical history teaching in the United States and Canada