Reminiscences of Frank Brown Berry : oral history, 1972.

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Reminiscences of Frank Brown Berry : oral history, 1972.

Family background; boyhood; Harvard College and Medical School, 1910-17; respiratory experiments under Walter Boothby, World War I; United States Army Medical Corps, France, 1918-19; training in surgery and internal medicine; thoracic surgery; World War II; 9th Evacuation Hospital, North Africa and Italy; treatment of chest wounds, blood supplies, penicillin; consultant surgeon, 7th Army, France and Germany, 1943-45; postwar German medical facilities; Bellevue Hospital, 1946-54.

Transcript: 193 leaves.Tape: 1 cassette.

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