Erik Waller collection, 1927-1955 (inclusive).

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Erik Waller collection, 1927-1955 (inclusive).

The collection consists of correspondence and printed matter which document Erik Waller's bibliophilia. The collection, which was assembled in the Yale Medical Historical Library, includes Waller's correspondence with Harvey Cushing and John Fulton.

.50 linear ft. (1 box)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8023063

Yale University Library

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Waller, Erik, 1875-1955

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Erik Axel Waller was born on November 29, 1875 at Unum, Sweden. He received his medical degree in 1900 from the University of Uppsala where he later taught anatomy and physiology. From 1909 to his retirement in 1933, he was physician and surgeon-in-chief at Lidkoping. He was the Librarian of the Swedish Medical Library Association in Stockholm from 1940 until his return to Lidkoping in 1951. Waller died on January 30, 1955. From the description of Erik Waller collection, 1927-1955 (i...

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...

Cushing, Harvey, 1869-1939

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Harvey Williams Cushing was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 8, 1869. He graduated from Yale College in 1891 and in 1895 received his M.D. and A.M. degrees from the Harvard Medical School. He served on the staff of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital from 1901 to 1912, where he devoted himself to neurological surgery. In 1912 he was appointed professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and in 1913 surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, posts which he held until 1932. During W...

Uppsala universitetsbibliotek. Bibliotheca Walleriana

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