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South America

 Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

"Drug hunters : the Mulford biological explorations of the Amazon basin", / Lucile Quarry Mann

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 458
Abstract

Unpublished manuscript history of the 1921 Mulford biological exploration.

Dates: [1977?]
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Eugene P. Campbell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 467
Abstract Dr. Campbell earned a M.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1933 and a master's in public health from the Pennsylvania School of Public Health in 1942. When the Second World War broke out, he was teaching epidemiology there and wanting to contribute to the war effort, he went to work for the fledgling Institute of Inter-American Affairs (IIAA). The papers date from the 1940s to the 1970s and consist of Campbell's journals and their accompanying photographs, correspondence, reports and...
Dates: 1941-1986
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Official diary of the Mulford biological exploration of the Amazon Basin / by Henry Hurd Rusby

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 457
Abstract

Typescript copy of the diary kept by H. H. Rusby from June 1 to Dec. 29, 1921.

Dates: 1921
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections

Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS C 69
Abstract

Sawyer is best known for his role in developing a vaccine for yellow fever and working to eradicate the disease as a public health threat while working for the Rockefeller Foundation's West Africa Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates: 1879-1995
Found in: Archives and Modern Manuscripts Collections