Papers, 1854-1915 and undated.

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Papers, 1854-1915 and undated.

Papers include documents and correspondence relating to matters personal and professional. Mitchell's principal correspondents include his relative Mitchell Henry, his publisher Frank H. Scott, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jeffries Wyman, Charles-Eduoard Brown-Seguard, Louis Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Anna Eliot Ticknor, W. T. Gairdner, Louis Lee Lawrence, Charles Leonard Moore, Julian Stafford Corbett, Harrison S. Morris, T. Lauder Brunton, William Osler and Hideyo Noguchi, among others. A complete list of correspondents and brief descriptions of the content of the letters are available. Papers are arranged chronologically. The principal language is English, although there are some letters in French and German.

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Mitchell, Silas Weir, 1829-1914

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Silas Weir Mitchell was a Philadelphia physician and author. After graduating from medical school, he studied in Europe, joined his father's practice, and ran Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia during the Civil War, becoming the preeminent American neurologist of his generation. In addition to numerous medical papers and texts, he published popular novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Born on 15 Feb. 1829, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a son of physician John Kear...

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

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Swiss-American zoologist and geologist. Professor of zoology and geology at Harvard University. Louis Agassiz was born in Môtier-en-Vuly, Switzerland. He studied at the universities of Zürich, Erlangen (Ph.D., 1829), Heidelberg, and Munich (M.D., 1830). Agassiz studied medicine briefly but turned to zoology, with a special interest in fishes and fossils, while studying under the French naturalist Cuvier. In 1832 he became professor of natural history at the University of Neuchâtel, Sw...

Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907

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Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and college president, was born in Boston, December 5, 1822 and married the Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz in 1850. She was an educational reformer, member of the Woman's Education Association, but never an advocate of women's suffrage or of co-education. ECA administered the Agassiz School for Girls from 1855 to 1863. She was one of the managers of the program for the Private Collegiate Instruction for Women (also known as the Harvard Annex); was p...

Ticknor, Anna Eliot, 1823-1896

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907

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Professor of medicine. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Glasgow, to Prof. Knight, 1896 Jan. 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269568661 Epithet: physician; KCB 1898 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000388.0x00017e ...

Brown-Séquard, Charles-Edouard, 1817-1894

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French physiologist, neurologist and endocrinologist. From the description of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard papers, 1871-1889, and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 31383182 Brown-Sequard was elected to the Academie des Sciences in 1886. From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 703640281 From the description of Letter : [Paris], 1886 Jun 18. (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 7021624...

Noguchi, Hideyo, 1876-1928

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Moore, Charles Leonard, 1854-

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Corbett, Julian Stafford, 1854-1922

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Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith), 1856-1948

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Harrison Smith Morris was born in Philadelphia on October 4, 1856, the son of George Washington and Catharine (Harris) Morris. He had two younger sisters, Matilda Harris Morris and Jane Walters Morris, who never married. At the age of sixteen he went to work for the Reading Coal & Iron Company to help support his parents, who were in ill health. In 1893 he became the managing director of the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, a position which he held until 1905. Morris also ...

Brunton, T. Lauder (Thomas Lauder), 1844-1916

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Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1844-1916, was born in Scotland, but spent the majority of his career in London. In 1867 he discovered that amyl nitrate effectively relieved pain of angina pectoris. Brunton is credited with developing the discipline of pharmacology. From the description of Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton correspondence, 1881-1912. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14312157 From the guide to the Sir Thomas Lauder Brunton Correspondence, 1881-1912, (His...

Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919

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Born in Ontario, Canada, Dr. Osler was received his medical from McGill University in 1872. He became Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's first professor of medicine in 1889. Author of The Principles and Practices of Medicine (1892), Osler has been celled the father of psychosomatic medicine and the "most influential physician in history." From the description of Sir William Osler press clippings, 1905-1920. (National Library of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 14312601 ...

Wyman, Jeffries, 1814-1874

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Wyman (Harvard, M.D. 1837) was Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1874 and taught anatomy and physiology in the medical school of Hampden-Sydney College, Richmond, Va., from 1843 to 1847. In 1866 he became curator of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard and went on expeditions to Florida, Labrador, South America, and other places to collect material for the museum. He wrote extensively and lectured on comparative anatomy and paleontology. ...