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History of Medicine

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Felix J. Neumann Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 394
Abstract

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

Dates: 1883-1979 (bulk 1883-1935)

Harold J. Abrahams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 174
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1968

Historia de la medicina en Uruguay / Rafael Schiaffino

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 240
Abstract

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

Dates: c.1930

James Harvey Young Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 502
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1943-1997

Miscellaneous materials of the American Association for the History of Medicine

 Collection
Identifier: HMD MS ACC 664
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1984-1990

Percy Moreau Ashburn Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 27
Abstract

Original typescript drafts and notes compiled by the author.

Dates: 1913-1947

Rendell Rhoades Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 356
Abstract

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

Dates: 1949-1952

Saul Jarcho, M.D. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 384
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1917-1989

Stanhope Bayne-Jones Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 155
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1852-1969

Teaching of Medical History in the United States and Canada: field survey collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 427
Abstract

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

Dates: 1947-1971