Reminiscences of Alphonse Raymond Dochez : oral history, 1955.

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Reminiscences of Alphonse Raymond Dochez : oral history, 1955.

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Undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins; work at Rockefeller Institute, 1907-19 (pneumococcus and hemolytic streptococcus); work in 1920s on scarlet fever and early experiments on common cold; reflections on Physicians and Surgeons during the 1920s and 1930s; World War II; Office of Scientific Research and Development.

Miscellaneous papers relating to oral history.

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

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

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