Papers, 1919-1951.

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Papers, 1919-1951.

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Contains correspondence with research institutes, laboratories, hospitals, colleagues, public health departments, US governmental agencies, publishers, and granting foundations describe Aycock's research on polio, leprosy, and other contagious diseases. Correspondence and class lectures document Aycock's teaching activities at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Unpublished writings, notes, drafts, and speeches record his research on the host factors and comparative analysis of polio, leprosy, measles, mumps, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, yellow fever, and the body's natural resistance to disease.

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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