Ogden C. Bruton Papers, 1925-1994.

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Ogden C. Bruton Papers, 1925-1994.

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The collection focuses on Dr. Bruton's medical career as a distinguished pediatric chief of pediatric service at Walter Reed Army Hospital from 1946-1959 and Army major colonel, who first reported a children's disease in 1951 which he named agammaglobulinemia. Many black and white photographs and color ones of Dr. Bruton's family and his career with the patient, Joseph S. Holtoner, Jr. the only patient to submit a photograph of himself with this disease. Family Correspondence and magazine articles highlight Dr. Bruton's outstanding achievements in high school, college, medical school and medicine.

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Walter Reed Army Medical Center

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Bruton, Ogden C. (Ogden Carr), b. 1908.

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Biographical Sketch: Dr. Ogden Carr Bruton (b. 1908) was born in Mount Gilead, NC. He entered Trinity College (later to become Duke University) at age 16, and graduated from the School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University in the Class of 1933 with honors. Dr. Bruton served three separate tours of duty at Walter Reed Hospital. He went to Europe during World War II briefly and to Tripler General Hospital from 1955-1958 and finally back to Walter Reed for the final time in 1958. He also spent 1946 in...