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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Note

Collection Summary

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Restrictions

Series Descriptions

Personal and Biographical

Correspondence, 1917-1989

Miscellaneous Subject Files and Publications, 1936-1979

1990 Accession, 1967-1990

Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
Processed by James Kopp, Sarah Anne Goodman and Theodore Burch, Dr. Manfred Wasserman Supervisor - 1981; Mildred Asbell - 1991; Processing completed 1991
Encoded by Dan Jenkins, Electronic Scriptorium


Descriptive Summary
	Collection Number:	MS C 384
	Creator:	Jarcho, Saul
	Title:	Saul Jarcho, M.D. Papers
	Dates:	1917-1989
	Quantity:	33 boxes
	Abstract:	Dr. Jarcho's principal fields of interest include internal medicine and medical history. He has published more than 200 articles and sixty book reviews on clinical medicine, pathology, the history of medicine, paleopathology, and cartography. A sizable part of the collection consists of correspondence relating to the subject of the history of medicine and to the activities of the National Library of Medicine.

Biographical Note

Dr. Saul Jarcho was born in New York City on October 25, 1906, and received his A.B. degree from Harvard University, a Master of Arts degree in Latin Literature from Columbia University, and his M.D. degree from Columbia in 1930. He then interned at the Lying-In Hospital and Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York between 1930 and 1933. From 1934 until 1942 he was an instructor at The Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities. During World War II he was assigned to duty at the Army Medical School and subsequently to the Medical Intelligence Division of the Office of the Surgeon General. His long association with the New York Academy of Medicine began in 1940, and he became Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine in 1967.

Dr. Jarcho's principal fields of interest include internal medicine and medical history. He has published more than 200 articles and sixty book reviews on clinical medicine, pathology, the history of medicine, paleopathology, and cartography. He has been an active member of numerous professional organizations, including the American College of Physicians, the College of Physicians, the New York Historical Society, the Society of Tropical Medicine, and the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM). The AAHM Garrison lecturer in 1963, he was also president of the Association from 1968-70.

Dr. Jarcho has been a consultant to several federal agencies. Among them are the Office of the Surgeon General of the Army, the National Institutes of Health, the Smithsonian Institution and the National Library of Medicine. From 1961-65 he was a member of NLM's Board of Regents.

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Collection Summary

Biographical data, correspondence, and reprints.

A sizable part of the collection consists of correspondence relating to the subject of the history of medicine and to the activities of the National Library of Medicine. The 1990 accession to the collection includes material on the history of Egyptian medicine, the Loeb Classical Library, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

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Restrictions

Collection is not restricted. Contact the Reference Staff for information regarding access. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

Copyright

NLM does possess copyright to the collection. Contact the Reference Staff for details regarding rights. For online customer service, please visit custserv@nlm.nih.gov.

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Index Terms
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	MeSH Subjects
		History of Medicine
	Corporate Names
		National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Jarcho, Saul. Saul Jarcho, M.D. Papers. 1917-1989. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; MS C 384.

Provenance

The papers of Dr. Saul Jarcho were first given to the National Library of Medicine by Dr. Jarcho in November, 1980. Additional accessions, extending the coverage of the collection through 1981, were received and added to the collection in 1985 and 1986. An accession including files on Egypt, the Loeb Classical Library, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia was received in 1991.

Accruals

Additional accessions are being made to this collection. Detailed content lists are available at the Library.

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Series Descriptions



Personal and Biographical
1		Biographical data
1		Personal correspondence, undated and 1940-1978
1		Membership; appointments
1		Contributions made to libraries
1		Condolences on death of Julius Jarcho, 1963
1		Licenses
1		Recommendations
1		Photographs: class photograph, Dr. Jarcho and Associates, 1917
1		Business correspondence
1		U.S. Army, memos and travel orders, 1941-1945
1		College Paper

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Correspondence, 1917-1989
	Correspondence: Individuals

2		Ackerknecht, Erwin H.
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspondence)
2		Adams, Scott
2		Anderson, Gaylord W.
2		Annan, Gertrude L.
2		Armelagos, George J.
2		Armstrong, R. Warwick
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia Correspondence)
2		Bachrach, Clifford A.
2		Baehr, George
2		Baker, Hinton
2		Bean, William B.
2		Beatty, William K.
2		Bell, Whitfield J., Jr.
2		Binford, Chapman H.
3		Blake, John B.
3		Blum, Lester
3		Blumberg, Joe M.
3		Bodemer, Charles
3		Bond, William H.
3		Boorstin, Daniel J.
3		Bowditch, Sally
3		Brand, Jeanne L.
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspodence and the NLM PL480 folders)
3		Brieger, Gert H.
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspondence)
3		Brodman, Estelle
3		Bruce-Chwatt, L.J.
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspondence)
4		Burns, Chester R.
4		Burrell, Craig
4		Busacihi, Vincenzo
4		Cassedy, James H.
4		Chapman, Carleton B.
4		Clarke, Edwin
4		Cockburn, T. Aidan
4		Cook, Sherburne F.
4		Corner, George W.
4		Corning, Mary E.
4		Cowen, David L.
4		Coyl, Edwin B.
4		Craig, Howard
4		Cranefield, Paul F.
4		Cummings, Martin M.
5		Dack, Simon
5		Dammin, Gustave and Anita
5		Danson, Edward B.
5		Duffy, John
5		Eckman, James
5		Evans, Alfred S.
5		Farrington, Irma
5		Feinstein, Alvan R.
5		Fitts, Francis M.
5		Follis, Richard H.
5		Futcher, Palmer H.
5		Gabaldon, Arnoldo
5		Galdston, Iago
5		Gandevia, Bryan
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
5		Gebbard, Bruno
5		Ghalioungui, Paul
			(see also Egypt subseries)
5		Guerra, Francisco
5		Gutman, Alexander B.
6		Hannaway, Caroline
6		Haury, Emil W.
6		Henze, Carlo
6		Hoogstrall, Harry
6		Hooker, Davenport
6		Howells, W.W.
6		Hubbard, John P.
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspondence)
6		Hudson, Robert P.
6		Jackson, William A.
6		Jellison, William L.
6		Joy, Robert J.T.
6		King, Lester
6		King, Lester
6		Kotrc, Ronald
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspondence)
6		Koudelka, Janet
6		Krogman, Wilton M.
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspondence)
6		Lambert, Samuel W.
6		Lansing, Dorothy I.
6		Leake, Chauncy D.
6		Leibowitz, Joshua O.
6		Lesky, Erna
6		Light, James F.
6		Lipkin, Mack
6		Long, Esmond R.
6		Lyons, Albert S.
7		McCormack, James E.
7		McCue, Daniel L.
7		McDaniel, Walton B.
7		McDermott, Walsh
7		MacDougall, Curtis D.
7		MacDougall, Curtis D.
7		Meyerhoff, Erich
7		Miller, Genevieve
7		Moller-Christensen, Villem
7		Mora, George
7		Morria, Ann
7		Moseley, John E.
7		North, Catherine M. and Richard A.
7		Ober, William B.
7		Olch, Peter D.
7		Phillips, Joanne H.
7		Potter, Paul
			(see also Loeb Classical Library subseries)
7		Poynter, F.N.L.
7		Price, Robin
7		Puckrein, Gary
7		Rather, Lelland J.
7		Ravitch, Mark M.
7		Richards, Dickinson W.
7		Riese, Hertha
7		Risse, Guenter B.
7		Rogers, Frank B.
8		Roland, Charles G.
8		Rosen, George
8		Rosenberg, Charles
8		Ross, Daniel G.
8		Sager, Robert V.
8		Saltzman, Samuel L.
8		Sanders, Murray
8		Sandison, A.T.
8		Schullian, Dorothy
8		Seijo, Irma
8		Shah, Mazhar H.
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspondence)
8		Sharpe, William D.
8		Shelly, Harry and Ellen
8		Shryock, Richard H.
8		Siegel, Rudolph E.
8		Simon, Norman
8		Snapper, Isidore
9		Stannard, Jerry
9		Starr, Nathan C.
9		Stevens, Geraldine
9		Stevenson, Lloyd G.
9		Stewart, Harold L.
9.		Stewart, Ileen E.
9		Stewart, T. Dale
9		Stewart, Zeph
9		Straight, William M.
9		Striker, Cecil
9		Struthers, Minnie H.
9		Stuart, Kenneth
9		Suarez, Ramon M.
9		Talbott, John H.
9		Temkin, Owsei and C. Lillian
			(see also Loeb Classical Library subseries)
10		Thomson, Elizabeth H.
10		Thomson, Stewart C.
10		Turner, Arthur R.
10		Veith, Ilza
10		Waaler, Erik
10		Wallis, Helen
10		Wangensteen, Owen H.
10		Waring, Joseph I.
10		Weiner, Dora B.
10		Weisman, Abner I.
10		Wells, Calvin
			(see also College of Physicians of Philadelphia correspondence)
10		Wells, James M.
10		Well, Warner
10		Wilde, Anne F.

11		Williams, David M.J.
11		Wilson, Leonard G.
11		Wolf, Stewart G., Jr.
11		Wolfe, Richard J.
			(see also Loeb Classical Library subseries)
11		Worth, C. Brooke
11		Wright, John K.
11		Young, James Harvey
11		Zimmerman, Michael R.
11		Zorgniotti, Adrian
	Correspondence: Institutions

11		Albert Einstein College of Medicine
12		American Association for the History of Medicine
12		American Association for the History of Medicine
12		American College of Physicians
12		American Geographical Society
12		American Medical Association
12		Armed Forces Institute of Pathology
12		Doctors Hospital, New York
12		Harvard University
12		Medical Library Association
12		Mount Sinai Hospital
13		Mount Sinai Hospital
13		National Library of Medicine
13		New York Academy of Medicine
13		New York Academy of Medicine
13		Perspectives in Biology
	Correspondence: General

14		A - Bet
15		Bi-C
16		D-Get
17		Gha - I
18		J - L
19		M - O
20		P - R
21		S - T
22		U - Z

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Miscellaneous Subject Files and Publications, 1936-1979
23	Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria: program, correspondence and photos, May 1948
23	Klippel-Feil Syndrome: correspondence, 1940-1941
23	Requests for Reprints
23	Class notes, 1942-1943
23	Lectures
24	Unpublished manuscript: "History of Medicine in the United States (1958); first draft and revised versions, 1958
25	Reprints, 1939-1969
26	Reprints, 1970-1980
26	Book Reviews, 1937-1979
26	Miscellaneous manuscripts and papers, 1940-1973
27	Unpublished research material on Giusepe Zambeccari - notes, transcriptions, translations, photographs, and photostats, collected by Dr. Jarcho.,
27	The Leech, Cardiff (Wales) Medical Student's Club Journal, (Incomplete), 1958-1976
		Contains articles by "S.N. Gano", pseudonym for Dr. Jarcho.

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1990 Accession, 1967-1990
		History of Cartography, Pisa Conference, 30 May - 5 June 1981

28	1		Programs, May - June 1981
28	2		Italian Maps Article, May - June 1981
28	3		Reference Material, May - June 1981
28	4		Correspondence, 1981-1982
		Egypt, 1978-1982

28	5		Site Visit Report, March 1978
28	6		Site Visit Report, Nov. 1978
				(see also Manuscripts subseries for paper on mummies)
28	7		Correspondence, Sept. - Nov. 1978
28	8		Correspondence, Dec. 1978
28	9		Correspondence, Jan - April 1979
28	10		Correspondence, May - Aug. 1979
28	11		Correspondence, Sept. - Dec. 1979
28	12		Correspondence, Feb. - April 1980
28	13		Correspondence, May - Sept. 1980
28	14		Correspondence, 1981
28	15		Avicenna Project Review, 1978
28	16		"Mummies" manuscript (delivered in Toronto), 1981
			Coptic Bibliography, 1978-1979
					Includes correspondence with Leslie MacCoull and the Society for Coptic Archaeology, Cairo
28	17			Coptic bibliography, 1979
28	18			Correspondence, 1978
28	19			Correspondence, Jan. - April 1979
28	20			Correspondence, May - Dec. 1979
28	21			Correspondence
		Manuscripts and Papers, 1978-1980

29	1		Winship Lecture (Medical Books), 1978
29	2		"History of concepts of heart failure", 1978-1979
29	3		"Some experiences of a medical historian," AAHM, 1980
29	4		Morgagni, 1982
		Loeb Library, 1967-1990

29	5		Coorrespondence, 1967-1968
29	6		Correspondence, 1971
29	7		Correspondence, 1973
29	8		Correspondence, 1975-1976
29	9		Correspondence, 1977
29	10		Correspondence, 1978-1980
29	11		Correspondence, 1981
29	12		Correspondence, 1982-1990
29	13		Hippocrates, 1975
		1982 Correspondence

29	14		Correspondence - A
29	15		Correspondence - B-Bl
29	16		Correspondence - Br-By
29	17		Correspondence - C
29	18		Correspondence - D
29	19		Correspondence - E
30	1		Correspondence - F
30	2		Correspondence G
30	3		Correspondence - H
30	4		Correspondence - I
30	5		Correspondence - J
30	6		Correspondence - K
30	7		Correspondence - L
30	8		Correspondence - M
30	9		Correspondence - N
30	10		Correspondence - O
30	11		Correspondence - P
30	12		Correspondence - R
30	13		Correspondence - S
30	14		Correspondence - T-V
30	15		Correspondence - W
30	16		Correspondence - Y-Z
30	17		Correspondence - Family
30	18		NLM PL480 translation program (Wolff on cancer): correspondence, 1974-1984
30	19		NLM PL480 translation program (Wolff on cancer): correspondence, 1985-1990
30	20		Miscellaneous Papers: Projects, 1982-1985
30	21		Miscellaneous Papers: Mysteries, 1973
		College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1975-1987

31	1		Correspondence, 1975
31	2		Correspondence, March - May 1977
31	3		Correspondence, June - Aug. 1977
31	4		Correspondence, Oct. 1977
31	5		Correspondence, Nov. - Dec. 1977
31	6		Correspondence, Jan. - March. 1978
31	7		Correspondence, April - June 1978
31	8		Correspondence, July - Dec. 1978
31	9		Correspondence, Jan. - April 1979
31	10		Correspondence, June - Sept. 1979
31	11		Correspondence, Oct. 1979
31	12		Correspondence, Nov. - Dec. 1979
31	13		Correspondence , Jan. 1980
31	14		Correspondence, Feb. - March 1980
31	15		Correspondence, April 1980
31	16		Correspondence, May - Aug. 1980
31	17		Correspondence, Sept. 1980
31	18		Correspondence, Oct. 1980
31	19		Correspondence, Nov. - Dec. 1980
31	20		Correspondence, Jan. 1981
31	21		Correspondence, Feb. 1981
32	1		Correspondence, March 1981
32	2		Correspondence, April - May 1981
32	3		Correspondence, July - Aug. 1981
32	4		Correspondence, Sept. 1981
32	5		Correspondence, Oct. - Dec. 1981
32	6		Correspondence, Jan. 1982
32	7		Correspondence, Feb. - March 1982
32	8		Correspondence, April 1982
32	9		Correspondence, June - July 1982
32	10		Correspondence, Aug. 1982
32	11		Correspondence, Sept. 1982
32	12		Correspondence, Oct. 1982
32	13		Correspondence, Nov. 1982
32	14		Correspondence, Dec. 1982
32	15		Correspondence, Jan. 1983
32	16		Correspondence, Feb. 1983
32	17		Correspondence, March 1983
32	18		Correspondence, April 1983
32	19		Correspondence, May - July 1983
32	20		Correspondence, Aug. 1983
32	21		Correspondence, Sept. 1983
33	1		Correspondence, Oct. - Dec. 1983
33	2		Correspondence, Jan. - Feb. 1984
33	3		Correspondence, Mar. - July 1984
33	4		Correspondence, 1985-1987
33	5		Transactions and Studies mailing lists, 1980-1982
		Avicenna, Trilingual Reconciliation

33	6		Book III, Fen IX, Tractus I, Chapter II
33	7		Book III, Fen XI, Tractus I, Chapter V
33	8		Book III, Fen IX, , Tractus I, Chapter VIII
33	9		Book III, Fen IX, Tractus I, Chapter IX
33	10		Book III, Fen XI, Tractus, II, Chapter I
33	11		Book III, Fen XI, Tractus II, Chapter II
33	12		Book III, Fen XI, Tractus II, Chapter VI
33	13		Book III, Fen XI, Tractus II, Chapter VII

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Finding Aid to the Saul Jarcho Papers, 1917-1989

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Restrictions

Restrictions

Copyright

Personal and Biographical

Correspondence, 1917-1989

Miscellaneous Subject Files and Publications, 1936-1979

1990 Accession, 1967-1990