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James Bumgardner Murphy Papers, Circa 1918-1950

Title: James Bumgardner Murphy Papers Circa 1918-1950

A pathologist and cancer specialist, James B. Murphy spent most of career associated with the Rockefeller Institute (1911-1950) investigating the role of lymphocytes in tuberculosis, x-ray mutagenesis, and the nature of malignant tumors in fowls. The Murphy Papers contains professional correspondence and research notes relating to James B. Murphy's cancer research at the Rockefeller, and information on several of the organizations to which he contributed or belonged, including the American Association for Cancer Research; American Bureau for Medical Aid to China; American Cancer Society; Bar Harbor Medical and Surgical Hospital; Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory; Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer (New York City, ca. 1932-1950); National Advisory Cancer Council; and the New York Academy of Medicine (1923-1950). Murphy helped to develop mobile laboratories for hospitals in France during World War I.

ArchivalResource: 15.5 Linear feet

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Opie, Eugene Lindsay, 1873-1971. Papers, [ca. 1919]-1971.

Title: Papers, [ca. 1919]-1971.

This collection contains correspondence, notebooks, lab notes, articles, reprints, and photographs. Opie spent most of his career at the Rockefeller Institute where he did much of his research on the study of influenza, tuberculosis, blood diseases, poliomyelitis, and viruses. There are many lab notes for this period. His work at Washington University, St. Louis, is documented, as are his efforts to alleviate turberculosis in Jamaica, among Philadelphia schoolchildren, and in New York City. His interest in China can be seen in the material on the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, the United China Relief, and Chinese medicine in general.

ArchivalResource: ca. 16,000 items (37 linear ft.)

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Olitsky, Peter K. Papers, 1917-1964.

Title: Papers, 1917-1964.

This collection consists chiefly of papers and correspondence relating to his work in developing vaccines for various viruses and bacteria, such as encephalitides, typhus, rickettsioses, poliomyelitis, meningococcus, and trachoma. Also includes materials on intraperitoneal protection tests, records of experiments on production of intranuclear inclusions by means of chemicals, results of work by Dr. Harold R. Cox on viruses, medical research during World War II, and materials relating to the Rockefeller Institute. There are also corrected proofs of "Viral Encephalitides" (Springfield, Ill., 1958).

ArchivalResource: ca. 2,500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/154298201 View

Russell, Frederick F. (Frederick Fuller), 1870-1960. Frederick F. Russell Papers, 1898-1958.

Title: Frederick F. Russell Papers, 1898-1958.

Scope and contents: Papers, correspondence, presentations, appointments, and awards document the medical career of Frederick Fuller Russell. The majority of the collection covers his public health work concerning typhoid and yellow fever. Of significant interest are the file folders "Typhoid Proceedings and Memos", and "Papers, Presentations, and Awards". These papers document his early research and the subsequent implementation of the U.S. Army's typhoid vaccination of 1911.

ArchivalResource: 0.47 linear ft. (1 box)

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Peter K. Olitsky papers, 1917-1964, 1917-1964

Title: Peter K. Olitsky papers, 1917-1964 1917-1964

This collection consists chiefly of papers and correspondence relating to his work in developing vaccines for various viruses and bacteria, such as encephalitides, typhus, rickettsioses, poliomyelitis, meningococcus, and trachoma. Also includes materials on intraperitoneal protection tests, records of experiments on production of intranuclear inclusions by means of chemicals, results of work by Dr. Herald Rea Cox on viruses, medical research during World War II, and materials relating to the Rockefeller Institute. There are also corrected proofs of "Viral Encephalitides" (Springfield, Ill., 1958).

ArchivalResource: 6.0 Linear feet, Ca. 2,500 items

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Murphy, James B. (James Bumgardner), 1884-1950. Papers, [ca. 1918]-1950.

Title: Papers, [ca. 1918]-1950.

In addition to materials relating to his cancer research, there is information in the collection on many of the organizations he contributed to, was a member of, or for whom he served in various official capacities. These include American Association for Cancer Research; American Bureau for Medical Aid to China; American Cancer Society (formerly, American Society for the Control of Cancer); Bar Harbor Medical and Surgical Hospital; Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory; Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer (New York City, ca. 1932-1950); National Advisory Cancer Council; New York Academy of Medicine (1923-1950). Outside of his cancer and medical studies, Murphy helped to develop mobile laboratories for hospitals in France during World War I.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15,000 items (15 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86165436 View

Carter, Henry Rose, 1852-1925. Papers of Henry Rose Carter, 1775-1947 (bulk 1905-1930).

Title: Papers of Henry Rose Carter, 1775-1947 (bulk 1905-1930). 1775-1947.

The papers include correspondence relating to Carter's work on yellow fever and malaria as a surgeon in the Marine Health Service (later United States Public Health Service) and notes for drafts of his "Yellow Fever, an Epidemiological and Historical Study of its Place and Origin"(Baltimore: The Williams and Wilkins Company, 1931). Included are photographs of and clippings about Carter, in addition to a small collection of reprints and publications by Carter and others. Also included is the correspondence of his daughter, Laura Armistead Carter with Frederick F. Russell and other members of the Rockefeller Foundation International Health Division, Wade Hampton Frost, of Johns Hopkins University, and others concerning her collaboration with Frost in the editiing and publication of Carter's book. The collection also includes a series of eighteenth-century to mid-nineteenth-century documents (e.g. plats, wills, indentures and receipts, 1775-1856) principally belonging to Carter's great-grandfather George Mason of Spotsylvania and Caroline Counties, Virginia and to Mary Ann Brown, sister of Carter's mother. Major correspondents include: Ronald Ross, Joseph Augustine Le Prince, Juan Guiteras, and Leland Ossian Howard.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft. (7 boxes, ca. 600 items)

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Hench, Philip S., 1896-1965. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection, 1806-1995, bulk 1863-1974

Title: Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995

The Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection documents the work of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission, the legacy of the commission’s discoveries, the lives of individuals who were connected to the commission, and twentieth century campaigns to shape public memory of the commission. Items in the collection date from 1800 to 1998, with the bulk of the items dating from 1864 to 1974. A wide range of formats are represented in the collection including, but not limited to the following: articles, artifacts, audiocassettes, bills (legislative records), biographies, charts (graphic documents), correspondence, diaries, editorials, interviews, journals (periodicals), magazines, maps, medical records, military records, negatives (photographic), notes, photographs, reports, reprints, scrapbooks, and speeches. Unique materials in the collection are supplemented with copies of original documents and photographs housed in other institutions (e.g the U.S. National Archives). Most of the materials in the collection were collected or created by Nobel laureate Philip Showalter Hench while researching the history of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission.

ArchivalResource: 67 linear feet; 153 boxes

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Eugene Opie Papers, Circa 1919-1971

Title: Eugene Opie Papers Circa 1919-1971

Eugene Opie spent most of his career as a pathologist at the Rockefeller Institute engaged in research on the influenza, tuberculosis, blood diseases, poliomyelitis, and viruses. His work at Washington University, St. Louis, is documented, as are his efforts to alleviate tuberculosis in Jamaica, among Philadelphia schoolchildren, and in New York City. The Opie collection contains correspondence, notebooks, lab notes from his days at Rockefeller, articles, reprints, and photographs. Opie's long interest in China is reflected in material on the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, the United China Relief, and Chinese medicine in general There is also significant documentation on the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, the Milbank Memorial Fund, and other institutions. There are also reports of approximately 300 clinical autopsies performed at the Base Hospital, Camp Pike, Ark., of soldiers who died in the flu epidemic of 1918. Also there are notes of Opie's course in pathology at the University of Pennsylvania.

ArchivalResource: 37.0 Linear feet; 37 linear feet

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Russell, Frederick F. (Frederick Fuller), 1870-1960. Notes on lecture on bacteriology by Frederick Fuller Russell / taken by Glenn I. Jones at the Army Medical School, 1909-1910.

Title: Notes on lecture on bacteriology by Frederick Fuller Russell / taken by Glenn I. Jones at the Army Medical School, 1909-1910.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14295163 View