Rudolph Matas papers, ca. 1860-1960.

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Rudolph Matas papers, ca. 1860-1960.

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The collection consists of biographical and personal documents and papers of Rudolph Matas; a large correspondence, personal and professional, from 1875-1957; medical practice and clinical histories (1881-1940), sketches and photographs of medical cases; teaching lectures and notes; diaries (1879-1956); speeches; patient account books (1942-1947); history of medicine manuscript; Charity Hospital history; Louisiana State Medical Society and Orleans Parish Medical Society materials; published articles of Dr. Matas and others; photographs, oral history, phonograph records, biographical bibliograpy of Louisiana physicians and Tulane Medical School items (1834-1950s).

55 linear feet (51 record storage boxes)

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7116956

Tulane University, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library

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Matas, Rudolph, 1860-1957

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Rudolph Matas was a prominent New Orleans, La., surgeon. During his career, he served as director of the NEW ORLEANS MEDICAL AND SURGICAL JOURNAL and Professor of Surgery at Tulane University, a post he held until he became Emeritus Professor in 1927. He also was a surgeon and consultant at Charity Hospital, Touro Infirmary, and the Ear, Eye, Nose and Throat Hospital of New Orleans. Matas continued his surgical practice and civic and academic pursuits until the age of 92, five years before his d...

Louisiana State Medical Society

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Tulane University. School of Medicine

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Charity Hospital (New Orleans, La.)

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The Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, was founded as L'Hôpital des Pauvres de la Charité in 1736, the bequest of shipbuilder Jean Louis. Subsequent buildings were erected in 1743, 1785, 1815, 1832, and 1939. The hospital, which was the city's only facility for the mentally ill until a state asylum opened in 1848, admitted men, women, and children throughout the 1840s. The institution later came under the jurisdiction of Louisiana State University. The Charity Hospital building sat unoc...