Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, M.D. (1916-2003) : Manuscript Collection No. 54

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Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, M.D. (1916-2003) : Manuscript Collection No. 54

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This collection holds photographs of Dr. Desmond as a medical student, Naval officer, and a faculty member of Baylor College of Medicine. The main portion of her papers deal with her work at Jefferson Davis Hospital, including grants she received from the John A. Hartford Foundation, and at Texas Children's Hospital. Some background material and photographs of the illustrations she used in the book, Newborn Medicine and Society: European Background and American Practice (1750-1975), are included. Reprints of her published articles are included.

3.5 linear feet

Houston Academy of Medicine, Texas Medical Center, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7782492

Houston Academy of Medicine, Texas Medical Center, Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library

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Desmond, Murdina MacFarquhar

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Murdina MacFarquhar Desmond, M.D., FAAP (Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics) was a member of a 1950s team that developed an infection control plan for hospital- acquired staphylococcous infection for newborns. Dr. Desmond began the first neonatal intensive care unit in the nation at the former Jefferson Davis Hospital and worked with affected babies at the hospital during the 1963-64 rubella outbreak. In 1973, she became director of the Leopold Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics...

Jefferson Davis Hospital (Houston, Tex.)

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Texas Children's Hospital

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John A. Hartford Foundation

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Baylor College of Medicine. Dept. of Pediatrics.

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