Shobal Vail Clevenger papers, 1864-1924.

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Shobal Vail Clevenger papers, 1864-1924.

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Contains correspondence, photos, articles, notes, memoranda, documents, clippings, and printed matter. Many letters relate to Clevenger's association with the Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane. Much of the correspondence is to Victor Robinson and contain reminiscences and opinions on various subjects, including scientists and physicians.

0.63 linear ft. (2 boxes)

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Eastern Hospital for the Insane, Kankakee, Ill.

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Clevenger, Shobal Vail, 1843-1920

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Clevenger was a surveyer, editor, reformer, psychiatrist and author. His medical contributions were chiefly in the field of neuro-pathology. A biography by Victor Robinson, Don Quixote of Psychiatry, was published in 1919. Son of a Cincinnati stonecutter-turned-sculptor, Shobal Vail Clevenger, Jr. (1843-1920) was born during a family visit to Italy. He grew up in various places ⁶ Ohio, Alabama, New Orleans and St.Louis. He became a surveyor for the U.S. Engineer Corps during the Civil War. After...

Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947

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Victor Robinson (1886-1947), son of a Russian physician, was born in the Ukraine. He studied pharmacy at New York University and the New York College of Pharmacy and law at Columbia University. Robinson received his doctor of medicine degree from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery (now Loyola University) in 1917. He founded the journal Medical Life, the first in the English language on the history of medicine, and helped organize the History of Science Society in 1924. In 1932 he photog...