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Public Health
Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:
The Surgeon General Has Determined. . .
Thomas B. Marquis Papers
Dr. Marquis practiced medicine in Montana, was with the U. S. Medical Corps during World War I, and became government physician on the Tongue River-Cheyenne Indian reservation. Because of his interest in Indian subjects he eventually gave up his medical practice and devoted full time to gathering historical data and writing.
U.S. Army Medical Corps Lecture Collection
Lectures, talks, and statements on various public health, preventive medicine, sanitation, and personnel hygiene topics relevant to World War II military operations given by U.S. Army Medical Corps officers.
U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare, National Blood Policy Records
Reports, documents, correspondence, memoranda, and printed matter. A sizable number of the items are copies. In 1972 President Richard Nixon called for an "intensive study" and requested a plan for developing a "safe, fast, and efficient nationwide blood collection and distribution system."
U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare Secretaries' Speeches
Collection of speeches by HEW Secretaries, and Surgeon General Luther L. Terry. Copies of speeches delivered by Secretaries Anthony J. Celebrezze (1962-1965), John W. Gardner (1965-1967), Wilbur J. Cohen (1968-1969), Robert Q. Marston (1971-1972), Joseph A. Califano (1977-1979), and Surgeon General Terry (1961).
U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Society Archives
Annual meeting programs and photographs, newsletters, history and constitution and some correspondence of the Society.
Vernon E. Wilson Papers
Dr. Vernon E. Wilson (1915-1992) was a nationally known leader in medical education and an innovative administrator of medical programs in academia and government. Although the collection covers the years 1953 through 1981, the bulk of the records were created in the 1970s.
W. H. Sebrell Papers
Sebrell was appointed director of the National Institutes of Health in 1950.
Warning: The Surgeon General May Be Good for Your Health
Warren Palmer Dearing Papers
Correspondence, documents, reports, and printed matter. Papers on a variety of subjects relating to public health, health education, medical administration, federal health legislation, and civil defense.