Records of the Dept. of Pathology, 1899-1942 (inclusive), 1910-1942 (bulk).

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Records of the Dept. of Pathology, 1899-1942 (inclusive), 1910-1942 (bulk).

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Contains office files of William T. Councilman and S. Burt Wolbach, including correspondence, course material, examinations, student grades and reports (1899-1926), applications, budget information, and letters of recommendation. Correspondence pertains to pathology research (such as Wolbach's work on typhus); involvement in various committees, the Promotion Board, and the Harvard Cancer Commission; cooperative work in pathology with several Boston area hospitals; student matters, such as grant awards; participation in professional societies; and departmental activities. Correspondents include Medical School Deans Henry A. Christian and David L. Edsall, A. Lawrence Lowell, members of other departments at Harvard, and colleagues.

27 boxes and 3 v.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Councilman, W.T. 1854-1933.

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Wolbach, S. Burt (Simeon Burt), 1880-1954

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Wolbach (Harvard, M.D. 1903) was Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1922 to 1947; pathologist-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham, Boston Lying-in, and Children's Hospitals in Boston, Mass., until 1947; and director of Division of Nutritional Research at Children's Hospital from 1947 until 1954. His research was on infectious diseases, vitamin deficiency, and experimental pathology. From the description of Papers of Simeon Burt Wolbach, 1901-1961 (in...

Harvard Cancer Commission.

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Harvard Medical School. Dept. of Pathology.

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The Pathological Anatomy Department of Harvard Medical School was established in 1847 with John B. S. Jackson's faculty appointment; in 1854 the professorship was endowed and the teaching of pathology was combined with course work in physic and in clinical medicine. Following Jackson, Reginald Heber Fitz was department head from 1879 to 1892. William Thomas Councilman succeeded Fitz in 1892 and began formal integration of clinical pathological work with academic study. In addition t...