Charles-Edward Amory Winslow papers, 1874-1977 (inclusive), 1915-1945 (bulk).

Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Health

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St 1869, c 420 established the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics, generally known as the State Board of Health. It was abolished by St 1879, c 291, which transferred its functions to the State Board of Health, Lunacy, and Charity. St 1886, c 101 renamed that body the State Board of Lunacy and Charity and reestablished the State Board of Health. The board was succeeded in turn by the State Department of Health (St 1914, c 792) amd the Department of Public Health (S...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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The Department of General Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) did not officially exist until 1882. Courses in general studies were offered as early as 1865, when the MIT Catalog offered a curriculum option called the Course in Science and Literature. At that time, all regular MIT students were required to take “general studies” classes from the Course in Science and Literature, in addition to English, history, and modern languages. In 1882 the Course in Scienc...

Williams, Linsly R. (Linsly Rudd), 1875-1934

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Rufus Ivory Cole served as the the director and physician-in-charge (1909-1937) of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the first hospital in the United States devoted primarily to the investigation of disease. Cole's medical research centered on problems relating to immunity to diseases of the respiratory system, particularly pneumonia From the guide to the Rufus Ivory Cole papers, ca. 1900-1966, 1900-1966, (American Philosophical Society) ...

Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947

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Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was an economist and professor of political economy at Yale University from 1898 to 1935. He specialized in monetary economics and in the application of mathematical techniques to the solution of economic problems. From the description of Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122314185 From the guide to the Irving Fisher papers, 1932-1938, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) ...

Pond, Martin Allen, 1912-

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Martin Allen Pond (1912-) graduated from Yale University (B.S. in Engineering, 1935; M.P.H., 1936) and was instructor in Public Health (1936-1941), assistant professor (1941-1942, 1946-1948), lecturer (1948), and sanitary inspector for the Department of University Health (1946-1948). He served in the U.S. Public Health Service as director of the health and sanitation program in war housing built by the Federal Public Housing Authority (1942-1946); assistant chief sanitary engineering officer; ch...

Shepard, Charles Edward, 1898-

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Platt, Philip Skinner, 1889-

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American public health official; member of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, American Relief Administration, American Red Cross, and United States Army Sanitary Corps in Europe, 1916-1919. From the description of Philip Skinner Platt papers, 1916-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754868966 Biographical/Historical Note American public health official; member of the Commission for Relief in Belgium, American Relief A...

Mountin, Joseph W. (Joseph Walter), 1891-1952

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Joseph Walter Mountin (1891-1952) was born and educated in Wisconsin. He received his medical degree from Marquette University School of Medicine in 1914. During World War I he joined the U.S. Public Health Service. Mountin was special assistant to the commissioner of the Tennessee State Health Department from 1927 to 1931. During the 1930s he worked in and eventually became director of the PHS Office of Studies of Public Health Methods. In 1946, while director of the PHS's States Relations Divi...

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Edmund W. Sinnott was president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at the time of this correspondence. Walter G. Berl was an editor for the Association. From the description of Letters, 1948-1971, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155878457 ...

Parran, Thomas, 1892-1968

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Physician, Government executive. From the description of Reminiscences of Thomas Parran : oral history, 1962. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122451560 Thomas Parran, Jr. was born on September 28, 1892 and raised near St. Leonard's, Maryland, on his family's tobacco farm. He attended St. John's College in Annapolis (1911, A.B.; 1915, A.M.). Finances influenced his decision to attend Georgetown (1915, M.D.) and to follow with an...

Prescott, Samuel Cate, 1872-1962

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Biggs, Hermann M. (Hermann Michael), 1859-1923

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Folks, Homer, 1867-1963

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Social worker. From the description of Homer Folks papers, 1890-1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 495526581 From the description of Reminiscences of Homer Folks : oral history, 1949. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734081 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Social worker. From the guide to the Homer Folks Papers, 1890-1963., (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) ...

Falk, I. S. (Isidore Sydney), 1899-1984

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Public health specialist. From the description of Reminiscences of Isidore Sydney Falk : oral history, 1963. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122481519 Isidore Sydney Falk, bacteriologist, public health medical economist, and social security expert, received his Ph.B. from Yale in 1920, and his Ph.D. in 1923. Falk was a professor of bacteriology at the University of Chicago from 1923-1929; a research associate at the Milbank Memorial Fund fr...

Emerson, Haven, 1874-1957

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of Haven Emerson : oral history, 1950. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309730504 ...

Sedgwick, W. T. (William Thompson), 1855-1921

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Biologist; taught chemistry, biology, public health at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1883-1921; biologist for Massachusetts Board of Health, 1888-1896; curator, Lowell Institute in Boston, 1897-1921; trustee and director of several health-related institutions; advisor to state and federal government. From the description of William Thompson Sedgwick papers, 1864-1922 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702166869 Biologist; taught chemistry, biol...

Sand, René, 1877-1953

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Kligler, Israel J. (Israel Jacob), 1889-1944

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Thompson, William Boyce, 1869-1930

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Baumgartner, Leona, 1902-1991

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Leona Baumgartner (1902-1991), A.B., 1923, University of Kansas; M.A., 1925, University of Kansas; Ph.D., 1932, Yale University; M.D., 1934, Yale University, was the first female Commissioner of Public Health for New York City, 1954 to 1962, and later became an Assistant Director of the Agency for International Development (AID), a position she held until 1965. She was named Visiting Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Boston, in 1966, where she served until her retirement in...

Rettger, Leo F. (Leo Frederick), 1874-1954

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Leo F. Rettger was born in Huntington, Indiana on March 17, 1874. He graduated from Indiana University (B.A., 1896; M.A., 1897) and Yale University (Ph.D., 1902). Rettger taught at Yale University from 1902-1942, and served as chairman of the Department of Bacteriology from 1928-1931 and 1933-1942. He held the title of professor emeritus from 1942 until his death in New Haven, Connecticut on January 7, 1954. From the description of Leo Frederick Rettger papers, 1921-1942 (inclusive)....

Klem, Margaret C., 1896-

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Cross, Wilbur L. (Wilbur Lucius), 1862-1948

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Epithet: of the `Yale Review' British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000297.0x000284 Cross was Governor of Connecticut. From the description of Proclamation of Thanksgiving day for the state of Connecticut : DS, 1936. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26525875 Wilbur Lucius Cross was born in Gurleyville, Connecticut, on April 10, 1862. He received his B.A. from Yale in 1885...

Zimand, Savel, 1891-....

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Zimand was a journalist and health educator whose papers reveal his interest in foreign affairs, health education and social welfare. From the description of Savel Zimand papers, 1917-1959. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63285886 Savel Zimand was born in Iasi, Romania, on May 14, 1891. After studying at the University of Berlin's Seminar of Oriental Languages and the Höhere Webeschule from 1909 to 1912, he emigrated to the United Sta...

Bigelow, George Hoyt, 1890-

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Reed, Lowell J. (Lowell Jacob), 1886-

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Fuller, George W. (George Washington), 1868-

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Nutting, M. Adelaide (Mary Adelaide), 1858-1948

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Nurse, nursing educator. Nutting was the Director of the Dept. of Nursing Education at Teachers College, and the first nurse to achieve the rank of professor. From the description of Papers, 1868-1948. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122589078 ...

Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943

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Tobey, James A. (James Alner), 1894-

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Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...

Leavell, Hugh Rodman, 1902-1976

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Davis, Michael Marks, 1879-1971

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Michael Davis was one of the major figures in health care policy in the United States. He served as chairman of the Executive Committee of the Committee for the Nation's Health (CNH), incorporated in 1946 and abolished in 1956. Davis received a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1906. In Boston and then in New York, Davis led movements to extend dispensary services to people of moderate means. He later served as director of medical services for the Julius Rosenwald Fund and chaired the foundation-funded Com...

Horwood, Murray P. (Murray Philip), 1892-

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Dublin, Louis I. (Louis Israel), 1882-1969

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Dr. Dublin, vice president and statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, was with that institution from 1909-1952. His analytic studies on birth rates, vital statistics trends, suicide, accident rates, mortality rates of whites and African-Americans, and the increasing population of aged Americans raised awareness of the implications these areas had on national medical care, including prevention and costs. He was president, or director, of various public health institutions, inclu...

Winslow, Anne Rogers.

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Fulton, John F. (John Farquhar), 1899-1960

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John Farquhar Fulton was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 1, 1899. He received B.S. and M.D. degrees from Harvard, and a M.A. and D. Phil. from Oxford. He was appointed Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale in 1929 and in 1951 became the first Sterling professor of the history of medicine. During World War II, Fulton served on the National Research Council. He was an authority on comparative physiology of the primate brain, neurophysiology, aviation medicine, and medical history. He co...

Yale University. School of Medicine. Dept. of Public Health.

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Frankel, Lee Kaufer, 1867-1931

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Lee Kaufer Frankel (1867-1931) Dr. Lee Kaufer Frankel was born in Philadelphia on August 13, 1867, the son of Louis and Aurelia Lobenburg Franken. He attended public schools as the Rugby Academy of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1887 with a B.S. and again in 1891, when he received a Ph.D. He specialized in chemistry and was an instructor in chemistry at the university from 1888 until 1893. He practiced...

Wilson, D. Bruce, 1894-

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Winternitz, M. C. (Milton C.)

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Milton C. Winternitz: teacher of pathology at Johns Hopkins Medical School, 1907-1917; pathologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1910-1917; pathologist, City Hospital, Baltimore, 1910-1917; professor of pathology and bacteriology, Yale University, 1917-1950; professor emeritus, 1950-1959; dean of Yale Medical School, 1920-1935; administrator of various institutes and organizations; author of several books on medical topics. From the description of Milton Charles Winternitz papers, 1898-...

Peters, William Wesley, 1882-

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Hayhurst, Emery Roe, 1880-1961

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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. ...

Park, William Hallock, 1863-1939

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Physician. Park was an alumnus of City College, Class of 1883. From the description of Memorabilia, 1926-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155503609 ...

Bundesen, Herman N. (Herman Niels), 1882-1960

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Wald, Lillian D., 1867-1940

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Director of Henry Street Settlement in New York City. Miss Wald retired from active directorship in 1932. From the guide to the Lillian D. Wald Papers, 1895-1936, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Lillian D. Wald (1867-1940), a public health nurse and social worker in New York City on the Lower East Side, was a pioneer in American social work and public health. She founded the Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of...

Kingsbury, John Adams, 1876-1956

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Social worker and social reformer. From the description of John Adams Kingsbury papers, 1841-1966 (bulk 1906-1939). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979825 Biographical Note 1876, Aug. 30 Born, Horton, Kans. 1897 Graduated, Yakima High School, Yakima, Wash. ...

Blake, Francis Gilman, 1887-1952.

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Francis Gilman Blake was born on February 22, 1887, in Mansfield Valley, Pennsylvania. After his father died when he was three, his family moved to Massachusetts. He received his A.B. from Dartmouth in 1908 and spent the next year tutoring a schoolboy in Maine in order to pay for Harvard Medical School, from which he received his M.D. in 1913. For the next three years, Blake worked as an intern at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He met Dorothy P. Dewey, a nurse in training at Peter Bent Brigham, wh...

Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949

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Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1949), physician and educator, served as the U.S. Secretary of the Interior from 1929 to 1933. From the description of Wilbur, Ray L. (Ray Lyman), 1875-1949 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10582818 American educator; United States secretary of the interior, 1929-1933; president, Stanford University, 1916-1943. From the description of Ray Lyman Wilbur papers, 1906-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867219 ...

Teleky, Ludwig, 1872-1957

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Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America.

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Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965

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In 1925, Mary Breckinridge founded the Frontier Nursing Service to provide infant and maternal care in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky. She was the granddaughter of Kentucky statesman and former vice-president of the United States, John Cabell Breckinridge. From the description of Letter, 1960, July 12. (Kentucky Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 38488930 ...

Wolman, Abel, 1892-

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Engineer and educator. From the description of Papers of Abel Wolman, 1904-1975. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131685 Sanitary engineer. From the description of Reminiscences of Abel Wolman : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309734659 Biographical Note: Trained as a civil engineer, Wolman spent his career merging engineering with hygiene and public health issues. His areas of expertise...

Hiscock, Ira V. (Ira Vaughan), 1892-

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Bacteriologist; member of the Conn. Dept. of Health, 1914-1917; from 1920-1960, professor of public health, Yale University; innovator in the areas of public health surveys and state and local health councils; frequent consultant and volunteer to local, state, and national social welfare agencies. From the description of Ira Vaughan Hiscock papers, 1918-1979 (inclusive), 1925-1939 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702205907 From the guide to the Ira Vaughan Hiscock pape...

Rosenau, M. J. (Milton Joseph), 1869-1946

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Milton J. Rosenau was commissioned as an assistant surgeon in the U.S. Marine Hospital Service (now the U.S. Public Health Service) in 1890. In 1899, he was appointed director of the Hygienic Laboratory of that service. He was instrumental in 1922 in the establishment of the Harvard University School of Public Health and, in 1940, became first dean of the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. From the description of M. J. Rosenau papers, 1871-1940 (bulk 1900-19...

Sheps, Cecil G. (Cecil George), 1913-2004

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Stokes, Anson Phelps, 1874-1958

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Anson Phelps Stokes was born on April 13, 1874, in New Brighton, Staten Island, New York. He received degrees from Yale University (B.A., 1896) and the Episcopal Theological School (B.D., 1900). He served as Secretary of Yale University (1899-1921) and was active on several University committees and organizations. Phelps also served as Canon of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Washington, D.C. (1924-1939) and was active on a variety of educational commissions and as a trustee of the Phel...

Sydenstricker, Edgar, 1881-1936

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American National Red Cross

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American charitable organization. From the description of American National Red Cross records, 1906-1995. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754867267 Historical Note The American Red Cross is a humanitarian organization led by volunteers and guided by its Congressional Charter and the Fundamental Principals of the International Red Cross Movement. The Federal Charter states it is a nonprofit, tax-exempt, charitable organizat...

Hartford (Conn.). Board of Health.

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Leathers, Waller S. (Waller Smith), 1874-1946

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Jean, Sally Lucas, 1878-1971

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Sally Lucas Jean, pioneer health educator, was director of the Child Health Organization of America, 1918-1923; a supervisor of health education for the U.S. Indian Service, 1934-1935; and consultant in heath education in many countries, 1920s-1950s. From the description of Sally Lucas Jean papers, 1914-1966 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25740286 Sally Lucas Jean served as a board member of the American Association for Gifted Children and promoted programs concerned with...

Finley, John H. (John Huston), 1863-1940

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President of City College, 1903-1911. From the description of Papers, 1907-1964, 1963-1964 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155502699 American editor, educator, and author. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York], 28 January 1934, to Harry Harkness Flagler, 1934 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270577340 John Huston Finley (1863-1940) was an educator, editor, author, and civic leader. He was president of Knox Colle...

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 ...

Huizenga, Lee Sjoerds, 1881-1945.

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Paul, John R. (John Rodman), 1893-1971

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John Rodman Paul was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on April 18, 1893. He earned his bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1915 and his M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1919. He came to the Yale School of Medicine in 1928 as assistant professor. Paul studied infectious diseases and was particularly known for his work on poliomyelitis, as well as for the epidemiology of mononucleosis and hepatitis. He also developed the concept of clinical epidemiology. Paul died on May ...

Day, George Parmly, 1876-1959.

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George Parmly Day was born in 1876 and received a B.A. from Yale University in 1897. In 1907 Day organized the Yale Publishing Association, which became the Yale University Press in 1908. Day served as its president until 1944. In 1910 Day became treasurer of Yale and served as a successful fundraiser until 1942. He was one of four brothers described in his brother Clarence Day, Jr.'s Life With Father. George Parmly Day died in New Haven, Connecticut on October 24, 1959. From the des...

Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970

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Dr. Stanhope Bayne-Jones, Chairman of the Advisory Editorial Board of the History of Preventative Medicine in the U.S. Army in World War II, has been one of the NLM's most distinguished scholars-in-residence. A graduate of Yale University, Dr. Bayne-Jones received the M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University Medical School in 1914; during subsequent years he achieved eminence not only as a physician and soldier, but also as an educator and researcher. He served as Dean of the Yale University Sc...

American Public Health Associaton.

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Palmer, George T. (George Truman), 1887-1971

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Freeman, Allen W. (Allen Weir), 1881-1954

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Allen Weir Freeman (1881-1954), physician and epidemiologist, was a pioneer in public health administration and education. He was educated at the University of Richmond and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. He served as medical inspector of the Richmond City Health Department; first assistant commissioner of health for Virginia; epidemiologist, U.S. Public Health Service; dean, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health; president, American...

Goldman, Franz, 1895-1970.

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Goodrich, Annie Warburton, 1866-

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Gunn, Selskar M. (Selskar Michael), 1883-

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Wells, William Firth, 1887-

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Williamson, Pauline Brooks

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Blumer, George, 1872-1962

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George Blumer was born in Darlington, England, on March 16, 1872. His family immigrated to the United States in 1886, settling in Sierra Madre, California. He received his medical degree from Cooper Medical College in 1891. After working for some time in San Francisco, Blumer went east to work at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Between 1896 and 1903, he served as director of the Bender Laboratory in Albany, New York. To help his ailing father, Blumer returned to San Francisco and stayed there...

Committee on the Cost of Medical Care

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Ravenel, Mazÿck Porcher

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Osborne, Henry Fairfield, 1857-1935

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Shryock, Richard Harrison, 1893-1972

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Shryock was a member of the Dept. of History at Duke University. From the description of Papers, 1927-1971 (bulk 1927-1931). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 231410108 Richard Harrison Shryock was a medical historian and was Librarian of the American Philosophical Society from 1958 to 1965. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1918-1972]. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122489498 From the guide to the National ...

Greenburg, Leonard, 1892-

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Public health official; C.E., Columbia School of Engineering 1915; Ph.D., Yale, 1923, M.D., 1930; worked for U.S. Public Health Service, 1918-1932; Clinical Professor of Public Health, Yale, 1923-1950; director, Industrial Hygiene, New York State Dept. of Labor; Commissioner, Air Pollution Control, City of New York, 1952-1960; professor and chairman, Dept. of Preventive & Environmental Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1960-1966, emeritus, 1967- From the description ...

Winslow, C.-E. A. (Charles-Edward Amory), 1877-1957

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Charles-Edward Amory Winslow was born in 1877. He received degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) in 1898 (B.S.) and 1899 (M.S.). He taught at the University of Chicago, the College of the City of New York, Columbia University, and Yale University. Winslow also served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Bacteriology (1916-1944), as a member of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia, as president of the American Public Health Association (1926), as editor of the Americ...

United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Daley, Allen, Sir.

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Angell, James Rowland, 1869-1949

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Professor at the University of Chicago, later President of Yale University. From the description of James Rowland Angell letters, 1880-1945. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34418550 Born May 8, 1869, Burlington, Vermont; psychologist, educator; B.A., University of Michigan, 1890, M.A. 1891; M.A., Harvard, 1892; taught at the University of Chicago and was acting president, 1918-1919; president of the Carnegie Corporation, 1920-1921; president of Yale University,...

Bristol, Leverett Dale, 1880-1957

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Chapin, Charles V. (Charles Value), 1856-1941

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Charles V. Chapin: Superintendent of Health, Providence, R.I. From the description of Report concerning the state board of health / [Charles V. Chapin]. [1912?] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 49480067 Physician, public health officer, educator,and writer. From the description of Papers, 1901-1939. (Brown University). WorldCat record id: 145430096 Charles V. Chapin (1856-1941) was born in Providence, Rhode Island to Joshua Bickne...

Greenway, James C. (James Cowan), 1903-1989

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Hitchens, A. Parker (Arthur Parker), 1877-1949

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Bishop, E. L. (Eugene Lindsay), 1886-

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Historical Sketch: In 1930 President Hoover gathered professional leaders in a variety of fields to serve on the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection. It evaluated the national state of child care and protection and, through its reports, made recommendations for child welfare services on all governmental levels. Dr. Eugene Lindsay Bishop (1886-1951) was commissioner of the Tennessee State Health Department in 1930. He served on the conference's Committee on Public Health Organiz...

Commonwealth Fund.

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The Commonwealth Fund was established in 1918 with an endowment of ten million dollars from Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness (nee Anna M. Richardson).Its charter was broad: "to do something for the welfare of mankind." TheFund's earliest activities were directed towards supporting the American Relief Administration in its post-war program of civilian relief in Austria and Eastern Europe. Edward Harkness, who led the Fund from 1918 to 1940, encouraged the development of programs in child welfare, child g...

Madsen, Thorvald Johannes Marius, 1870- .

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Stewart, Isabel Maitland

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Professor of nursing. From the description of Oral history interview with Isabel Maitland Stewart, 1960. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309744049 Nurse, nursing educator. Maitland (1878-1963) was professor of nursing education at Teachers College, 1917-1947; Chair of the Dept. of Nursing Education at Teachers College, 1925-1947. From the description of Papers, 1912-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 1...

New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor

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Nicoll, Mathias, 1868-1941.

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American Association for the United Nations

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Formerly the League of Nations Association, in 1945 the name was changed to the American Association for the United Nations. In 1964, the AAUN merged with the Peoples Section for the United Nations and the United States Committee for the United Nations to form the United Nations Association of the United States of America. From the description of Collection, 1945-1964. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 26885535 ...

Connecticut. State Department of Health

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Simmons, James Stevens, 1890-1954

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Brig. Gen. James Stevens Simmons (1900-1954) served as the first Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health from 1946 to 1954, when the institution becam an independent part of Harvard University. During World War II, he was Chief of Preventative Medicine for the U.S. Army. In 1949, he edited and published Public Health in the World Today. From the description of Personal and Professional Records, 1942-1949. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 231054705 ...

Frost, Wade Hampton, 1880-1938

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No biographical information is available. From the description of Wade Hampton Frost fonds. n.d. (Dalhousie University, Killam Memorial Library). WorldCat record id: 229205599 ...

Gardner, Lester D. (Lester Durand), 1876-1956

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Descendants of David Scott, 1753-1813, of Scotch-Irish origins, who moved from Pennsylvania to Kentucky and married Nancy Welch. A grandson, Robert Scott, was a businessman in the iron industry in Ohio and Robert's daughter, Nancy, married Marshall Field of Chicago. From the description of Scott family genealogical files, 1790-1932. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 489139121 ...

Watkins, John Hamilton, 1900-

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Halverson, Wilton L.

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Stimson, Julia C. (Julia Catherine), 1881-1948

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Nurse. Stimson was Superintendent of the Army Nurses Corps during World War I and Dean of the Army School of Nursing. She was a graduate of New York Hospital Training School for Nurses, 1908. From the description of Papers, 1875-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122343182 ...

Walker, Harold Harmon, 1903-

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