Papers, 1916-2003.

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Papers, 1916-2003.

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Contains correspondence, memoranda, articles, certificates, clippings, notes, plaques, reports, film reels, videotapes, and photographs resulting from Finland's research, academic, and clinical activities and his investigative work on antibiotic effectiveness, drug combinations, and diagnosis of pneumonias at Boston City Hospital and the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory. Charts, correspondence, graphs, laboratory notebooks, and notes document Finland's studies, as well as experiments conducted by fellows and trainees under his direction, and record test protocols and results achieved in his laboratory. Itineraries, photographs, publications, memoranda, minutes, and reports document involvement in professional organizations, such as the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Lederle Medical Faculty Awards, and the Veterans Administration. Also includes correspondence, lists, and notes from Finland's fundraising effots on behalf of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.

38.5 cubic ft. in 35 record cartons, 3 document boxes, 2 half document boxes, 1 legal document box, 3 flat oversize boxes.

Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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Harvard University, Medical School, Countway Library

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United States. Veterans Administration

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Finland, Maxwell.

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Maxwell Finland (1902-1987), SB cum laude, 1922, Harvard College; MD, 1926, Harvard Medical School, was George Richards Minot Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a specialist in infectious diseases. Finland's work focused on the safety and effectiveness of antibiotics, particularly the dangers of unscientific marketing my drug campanies and indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the treatment and prevention of disease. Finland was also on the staff of Boston City Hospital from 1927...

Boston City Hospital. Harvard Medical Unit

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Lederle Laboratories

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Minot, George Richards, 1885-1950

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George Richards Minot (1885-1950), AB, 1908, Harvard College; MD, 1912, Harvard Medical School, was a hematologist and Director of the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital. Minot was also Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His research focused on blood and nutrition, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1934 for discovering that liver extract cured pernicious anemia. From the description of Papers, 1891-1951. (Harvard Universi...

Castle, William B. (William Bosworth), 1897-

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Physician. From the description of Reminiscences of William Castle: oral history, 1987. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122441462 William Bosworth Castle (1897-1990), MD, 1921, Harvard Medical School, was George Richards Minot Professor of Medicine and Francis Weld Peabody Faculty Professor of Medicine, and directed the Harvard Medical Services at Boston City Hospital from 1940 to 1963. Castle's research focused on blood diseases including ...

Channing Laboratory

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Harvard Medical School.

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Thorndike Memorial Laboratory

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Infectious diseases society of America

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Kass, Edward H. (Edward Harold), 1917-

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Edward Harold Kass (1917-1990), William Ellery Channing Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, was an infectious diseases specialist in Boston, Mass. whose epidemiological research focused on antimicrobial agents, pyelonephritis, hypertension, and toxic shock syndrome. Kass was appointed Research Fellow at the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory at Boston City Hospital in 1949, and became director of the Channing Laboratory at Boston City Hospital in 1963. In 1977 Kass moved with the Channin...

Davidson, Charles S. (Charles Sprecher), 1910-2000

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Davidson (McGill, M.D. 1939) taught at Harvard Medical School from 1945 and became William B. Castle Professor of Medicine in 1973. He was associate director of Thorndike Memorial Laboratories from 1963 to 1973 and was associated with the Clinical Research Center at M.I.T. His research was in nutrition, metabolism, and liver diseases. From the description of Papers of Charles Sprecher Davidson, 1949-1983 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 281438775 ...