Reminiscences of Alan Gregg : oral history, 1956.

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Reminiscences of Alan Gregg : oral history, 1956.

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Early life and education at Harvard College and Harvard Medical School; internship at Massachusetts General Hospital; experiences in World War I; work for Rockefeller Foundation as a public health officer in Brazil, 1919-1922; work in Division of Medical Sciences, New York, 1923-1925; survey of medical needs of Colombia, 1924; beginnings of survey of medical education in Italy, 1925; Rockefeller Foundation; legal medicine.

Transcript: 259 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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