Physicians

Society and Executive Board meeting minutes, committee records, subject files, correspondence, mailings, event fliers, publications, newsletters, financial ledgers, legal briefs, and published legal proceedings document the formal operations of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. The Medical Society of the District of Columbia (MSDC) is a professional advocacy organization for physicians practicing in and around the District of Columbia.

Clippings relate chiefly to his "fixed period" address at Johns Hopkins in 1905, and his death in 1919.

Correspondence, biographical data, and draft. Letters refer chiefly to literature by Kagan, published or in process of publication.

Sketches requested of U.S. naval medical officers by the Surgeon General of the Army in 1933.

Consists of an unpublished manuscript describing the life of William Thornton, physician, painter, inventor, and architect. Thornton was architect of the Capitol until 1802.

Correspondence, personal diaries, and recollections of director of Medical Society of District of Columbia, 1938-1963.

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.

Typescript biographical sketch of Thomas Lawson, Surgeon General of the United States Army.

UNPROCESSED COLLECTION. Pertains to the history of the Allergy Round Table.