Max M. Peet papers, 1925-1948.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Max M. Peet papers, 1925-1948.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34421667

The collection consists primarily of typed manuscripts of articles, correspondence, surgical illustrations and some photographs related to Peet's career as a surgeon and medical researcher. Included are typed manuscripts of articles concerning the surgical treatment of hypertension and subdural hematoma; and a transcript of a lecture delivered by Peet on infantile paralysis in 1939. Also includes one folder of miscellaneous correspondence from the period 1928-1945 related mainly to Peet's work on splanchnicectomy, and five photographs-three portraits of Peet (one with his wife) and two of Peet participating in a surgical operation.

.3 linear ft.

Bentley Historical Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7362188

Bentley Historical Library

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

University of Michigan.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f803v2 (corporateBody)

Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

University of Michigan. Medical School

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65q8qp9 (corporateBody)

See the historical sketch in the finding aid for the Medical School (University of Michigan) Records. From the guide to the Medical School (University of Michigan) publications, 1849-1999, (Bentley Historical Library University of Michigan) While the University of Michigan's charters of 1817 and 1837 both called for the inclusion of medical education within the curriculum, no action was taken to carry out this mandate until 1848. On January 19 of that year the r...

Peet, Max Minor

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t47q8k (person)

Surgeon and professor of surgery at the University of Michigan Medical School; inventor of an operation to reduce high blood pressure (splanchnicectomy) and considered one of the world's foremost neurosurgeons in his time; distinguished ornithologist; also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and was chief surgeon at Philadelphia General Hospital. From the description of Max M. Peet papers, 1925-1948. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34421667 From the descri...