Papers, 1908-1990.

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Papers, 1908-1990.

TheEdward H. Kass Papers, 1908-1990, are the result of the teaching, research and professional activities of Edward Harold Kass, William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Channing Laboratory at Boston City Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a specialist in infectious diseases.

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Edward Harold Kass (1917-1990), William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was an infectious diseases specialist in Boston, Mass. whose epidemiological research focused on antimicrobial agents, pyelonephritis, hypertension, and toxic shock syndrome. Kass was appointed Research Fellow at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital in 1949, and became director of the Channing Laboratory at Boston City Hospital in 1963. In 1977 Kass moved with the Channin...