Francis Gilman Blake papers 1908-1953

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Francis Gilman Blake papers 1908-1953

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1281

The papers consist of laboratory notebooks, lecture notes, patient charts, correspondence and photographs, primarily documenting the medical career of Francis Gilman Blake, including his tenure as Dean of the Yale School of Medicine and medical research. Also included is correspondence to his wife documenting his personal life.

9 linear feet (16 boxes)

eng,

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6351227

Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Blake, Francis Gilman, 1887-1952.

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Francis Gilman Blake was born on February 22, 1887, in Mansfield Valley, Pennsylvania. After his father died when he was three, his family moved to Massachusetts. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth in 1908 and spent the next year tutoring a schoolboy in Maine in order to pay for Harvard Medical School, from which he received his M.D. in 1913. For the next three years, Blake worked as an intern at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He met Dorothy P. Dewey, a nurse in training at Peter Bent Brigham, wh...