Joseph Goldberger papers, 1891-1949 [manuscript].

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Joseph Goldberger papers, 1891-1949 [manuscript].

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The collection chiefly consists of personal and professional correspondence of and about Goldberger. Materials document his field work and research in connection with pellagra, typhus, dengue, yellow fever, and other epidemic diseases throughout the southern United States, Mexico, and the West Indies. Included are letters from Goldberger to his wife, Mary Farrar Goldberger of New Orleans, her papers after his death concerning his biography, and two scrapbooks of clippings and photographs.

About 975 items (1.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Goldberger, Mary Farrar.

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Goldberger, Joseph, 1874-1929

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Joseph Goldberger was a physician, medical researcher, and epidemiologist with the United States Public Health Service, 1899-1929. From the description of Joseph Goldberger papers, 1891-1949 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23907223 Joseph Goldberger was born in Hungary but immigrated to New York as a child. He was educated there and later practiced medicine in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., before joining the United States Public Health Service in 1899. During his time with the Public...