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Papers, 1930-1991.

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The Anne Pappenheimer Forbes Papers, 1930-1991, are the result of Forbes's research and teaching activities as Clinical Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and as an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mass. The bulk of the collection falls between 1953 and 1975 and includes data, statistics, graphs, notes, correspondence, and lecture notes from her career as an endocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1939 to 1978. Research topics include Cushing's, Klinefelter's, and Turner's syndromes, amenorrhea, bone diseases, osteoporosis, and chromosomal abnormalities. The collection also contains lecture outlines and notes from Forbes's tenure at Harvard Medical School and personal correspondence and notes.

6.2 cubic feet in 6 record cartons, 1 half legal document box.

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