Papers of McKeen Cattell, 1923-1976 (bulk).

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Papers of McKeen Cattell, 1923-1976 (bulk).

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Papers pertain primarily to Cattell's research projects, his involvement in the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and Chemotherapy (ACCPC), the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET), and the Therapeutic Research Foundation; editorial work; lecturing in Japan, Austria, and Columbia; and teaching and administrative work in the Department of Pharmacology at Cornell University Medical College. Also includes personal correspondence of McKeen Cattell and some correspondence between Walter B. Cannon and James McKeen Cattell (father of McKeen Cattell), as well as J. M. Cattell's lecture notes and World War I photographs. Research project files contain charts and experimental data, notes and drafts of writings, bibliographies and reprints reflecting McKeen Cattell's research on the action of digitalis drugs in increasing the strength of heart-muscle contractions, and other studies on the pharmacology of digitalis. Related materials are research reports and correspondence with faculty at Cornell, such as Janet Travell and Harry Gold, and correspondence with Japanese scientists and colleagues concerning work on digitalis drugs. Departmental records include correspondence with pharmaceutical companies concerning fund raising for research and general records relating to curriculum matters, conferences at Cornell, etc. Cattell's professional activities are documented in correspondence about the founding of ACCPC; his service as president and trustee of ASPET and editing of the Society's journal, involvement in international pharmacology congresses, and work on governmental committees. Also contains minutes of meetings of the Biological Codification Panel and Committee on Growth of the National Research Council, which were held in the late 1940s to persuade the federal government to fund basic biomedical research; and correspondence and related material pertaining to advisory work for National Institutes of Health and committees of the New York Academy of Medicine, and consulting for private industry. Other material documents Cattell's travels as a visiting lecturer to Japan (1950) under the auspices of the U.S. Army, and to Austria (1947) and Colombia (1948) for the Unitarian Service Committee Medical Mission; as well as his lecturing in the U.S., and various social activities.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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