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Biography

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Biographical sketch of Sir William Osler

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 173
Collection Summary

A nine-page reminiscence of Dr. William Osler's life and work written October 6, 1923 by Arthur L. Knight, who was a contemporary and friend of Dr. Osler.

Dates: 1923

Biography of George Walter McCoy / by Charles Armstrong

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 83
Collection Summary

Correspondence between NLM and the author and two drafts and a bibliography about George Walter McCoy.

Dates: 1960

Carl Gottfried Hartman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 262
Abstract

Contains copies of Dr. Hartman's biographical notes and typed autobiography, reprints of his articles and two of books Hartman authored.

Dates: 1905-1966

Emerson Crosby Kelly Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 338
Abstract

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

Dates: c.1977

Fifty years of medicine: a philosophical approach

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 324
Collection Summary

Covering his own professional career, Moxness recalls the significant developments in military and civilian medical education in the United States from 1925 to 1974.

Dates: 1974

Jaroslav Nemec Medico-Legal Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 430
Abstract

Material assembled by Jaroslav Nemec as part of his work at the National Library of Medicine. Included are short biographies of important figures in forensic medicine, a directory of institutes of legal medicine, two narrative articles, and correspondence and other material resulting from a project to identify all conference, congresses, and meetings on legal medicine.

Dates: 1959-1991

Josephus Reynolds addresses

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 179
Abstract

Two speeches written and delivered by Josephus Reynolds.

Dates: 1930, 1967

Leonard C. McPhail Diary

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 88
Abstract

Includes biographical data and typescript of diary. McPhail was assistant surgeon, U.S. Army. Diary records his journey leading to the signing of a treaty with the Comanches.

Dates: 1835-c.1939

Life of William Darlington, addressed to W. Townsend

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 56
Collection Summary

Biography is written on envelopes addressed to W. Townsend, cashier, Bank of Chester County, West Chester, Pa.

Dates: 1853

Medical leader of the nineteenth century : career of Dr. Samuel Merrifield Bemiss : in summary

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 454
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1969