McKeen Cattell Papers, 1909-1987 (inclusive).

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McKeen Cattell Papers, 1909-1987 (inclusive).

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Papers pertain primarily to Cattell's research projects, his involvement in the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and Chemotherapy (ACCPC), the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), and the Therapeutic Research Foundation; editorial work; lecturing in Japan, Austria, and Columbia; and teaching and administrative work in the Department of Pharmacology at Cornell University Medical College. Also includes personal correspondence of McKeen Cattell and some correspondence between Walter B. Cannon and James McKeen Cattell (father of McKeen Cattell), as well as J. M. Cattell's lecture notes and World War I photographs.

23 cubic feet in 23 records center cartons.

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Cattell, McKeen, 1891-

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Cattell (1891-1983) (Harvard, M.D. 1924) joined the Department of Physiology at Cornell after graduating from Harvard and became chairman of the Department of Pharmacology in 1937. With Harry Gold, he initiated studies on the pharmacology of digitalis. Cattell's knowledge of muscle physiology led to research on the specific action of digitalis drugs in increasing the strength of heart-muscle contractions. With Gold, he founded the American College of Clinical Pharmacology in 1963 and edited its ...