Papers of David Linn Edsall, ca. 1881-ca. 1964 (inclusive).

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Papers of David Linn Edsall, ca. 1881-ca. 1964 (inclusive).

Contains office files, manuscripts of publications and speeches, biographical notes, reprints, and family papers pertaining to Edsall's professional and personal life.

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Medicine.

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Aub, Joseph Charles, 1890-1974.

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Edsall, David Linn, 1869-1945

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Edsall (1869-1945) (University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1893) was dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1918 to 1935 and dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from its beginnings in 1921 to 1935. Following graduation from medical school, he worked for four years in a hospital laboratory, then began teaching at University of Pennsylvania (1899-1911) and Washington University in St. Louis (1911-1912); he came to Harvard as the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine (1912-1923). His deanship, ...

Locke, Edwin Allen, 1874-1971.

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United States. National Resources Planning Board

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Massachusetts general hospital

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Dr. James Jackson and Dr. John C. Warren initially sought funds for a hospital in Boston, Mass. which would also be made available to student s of the Harvard Medical School for clinical training. It was incorporated in 1811 as Massachusetts General Hospital, and in 1817 Jackson and Warren were appointed as acting physician and surgeon, respectively. The first patients were admitted in 1821. McLean Hospital was chartered in 1811 and opened in 1818 as the psychiatric facility of Massachusetts Gen...

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Tileston family.

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Harvard Medical School.

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Flexner, Abraham, 1866-1959

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Abraham Flexner was an educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, 1959. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122473834 Educator. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309737398 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham Flexner : oral history, [195-?]. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat r...

Christian, Henry A. (Henry Asbury), 1876-1951

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Civil War corporal, 35th New York Infantry, Company A, 1861-1863. From the description of Document, 1863 June 5. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287268 Christian (Johns Hopkins, M.D. 1900; Harvard, A.M. 1903) held the Hershey Chair of Theory and Practice of Physic and served as Dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1908 to 1912. He was also physician-in-chief at Carney Hospital from 1907 to 1912 and at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital from 1910 to ...

Edsall, Margaret Harding Tileston, 1867-1912.

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Edsall was born in Salem, MA; lived on a farm in Concord, MA until the age of 15; graduated from Radcliffe in 1895; traveled in Europe; taught school in Philadelphia; married David Linn Edsall, a physician and biomedical researcher; had three sons; and died of pneumonia at the age of 45. From the description of Diaries, 1878-1912 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122656872 ...

American Red Cross

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Rockefeller Foundation

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Edsall, David Linn, 1869-1945

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Edsall (1869-1945) (University of Pennsylvania, M.D. 1893) was dean of the Harvard Medical School from 1918 to 1935 and dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from its beginnings in 1921 to 1935. Following graduation from medical school, he worked for four years in a hospital laboratory, then began teaching at University of Pennsylvania (1899-1911) and Washington University in St. Louis (1911-1912); he came to Harvard as the Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine (1912-1923). His deanship, ...

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National Committee for Resettlement of Foreign Physicians.

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Edsall family.

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