Papers, 1910-1947 and undated.

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Papers, 1910-1947 and undated.

Material includes 9 TLS and 2 ALS. Most letters are addressed to Victor Robinson, as editor of the journal "Medical life." One letter is addressed to William J. Robinson, editor of "The critic and guide." Correspondents include Otto Juettner, his wife Estelle, Henry E. Sigerist, Arturo Castiglioni, G. C. Grippen, J. R. de la Torre-Bueno, Sarah I. Morris and Alfred A. Knopf. Grippen requests a review of Sir Marc Armand Ruffer's book, "Studies in the palaeopathology of Egypt." Torre-Bueno requests a review of E. B. Krumbhaar's English translation of Castiglioni's work, "A history of medicine." Juettner submits his work, "Daniel Drake and his followers" for review. Material also includes a bookplate and Christmas card of Castiglioni as well as a newsprint article regarding and the program of a farewell dinner for Sigerist.

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Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947

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Victor Robinson (1886-1947), son of a Russian physician, was born in the Ukraine. He studied pharmacy at New York University and the New York College of Pharmacy and law at Columbia University. Robinson received his doctor of medicine degree from the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery (now Loyola University) in 1917. He founded the journal Medical Life, the first in the English language on the history of medicine, and helped organize the History of Science Society in 1924. In 1932 he photog...

Juettner, Otto, 1865-1922

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Otto Juettner, a German-born physician, was a noted Cincinnati researcher in physiological therapy and the use of x-rays. He was editor of the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THERAPY, founded the Cincinnati Post- graduate School of Physiological Therapeutics in 1903 and spoke to medical groups in New York, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Baltimore. He wrote at least three books: DANIEL DRAKE AND HIS FOLLOWERS, PHYSICAL THERAPEUTIC METHODS IN TREATMENT, and THE MAN HIMSELF: ESSAYS ON THE SEXUAL HYGIENE OF M...

Krumbhaar, E. B. (Edward Bell), 1882-1966

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Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1882-1966) was a distinguished pathologist and cardiac physician, as well as one of Philadelphia’s leading historians of medicine. A founder of both the Section on Medical History of the College of Physicians and the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM), Krumbhaar also served as president of the College and of the AAHM. Krumbhaar was born on August 1, 1882 in Philadelphia. He graduated from the Groton School in Massachusetts; from...

Sigerist, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1891-1957

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Henry E. Sigerist was born in Paris, France in 1891. He studied in Europe, served in the Swiss Army Corps, and received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in 1917. He was lecturer and professor of history of medicine at Zurich (1921-1924) and the University of Leipzig (1925-1932). He then served as professor and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University (1932-1947), before becoming a research associate at Yale University (1947-1957). Sigerist published ...

Robinson, William J. (William Josephus), 1867-1936

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Castiglioni, Arturo, 1874-1953

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Arturo Castiglioni was born on April 10, 1874, in Trieste, Italy. He received his medical degree from the University of Vienna in 1896. Between 1899 and 1938, he served as chief medical officer with various steamship lines. A scholar in the history of medicine, he held chairs in that field at universities in Siena, Padua, and Perugia. He was at the Yale School of Medicine as a research associate and lecturer between 1940 and 1947. Castiglioni died on January 21, 1953, in Milan, Italy. ...

Ruffer, Marc-Armand 1859-1917

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Torre-Bueno, J. R. de la (José Rollin), 1871-1948

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Knopf, Alfred A., 1892-1984

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Alfred A. Knopf and his wife, Blanche Knopf. From the description of Letters, 1928-1944, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155870929 Publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Alfred A. Knopf : oral history, 1961. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309743309 American publisher. From the description of Typed letters signed (1...