Browse History of Medicine Finding Aids
There are 219 items in this collection Browsing Creators starting with f.
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| Creator / [Collection date] | Item information |
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| Faust, Ernest Carroll, 1890- / [1918-1966] |
Title: Ernest Carroll Faust Papers 1918-1966
Extent: 2.88 linear feet (7 boxes, 7 vols.) Call Number: MS C 170 Abstract: Zoologist and parasitologist working for the Rockefeller Institute in China and later professor and head of Tulane's Department of Tropical Medicine and Tulane-Colombia Program in Medical Education. |
| Frank, Lawrence Kelso, 1890-1968 / [1914-1974] |
Title: Lawrence K. Frank Papers
1914-1974
Extent: 11.3 linear feet Call Number: MS C 280 Abstract: Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, talks, drafts, reprints and printed matter. Among the organizations and conferences represented are the Gesell Clinic, the Yale University Child Study Center, the Cornell-N. Y. Hospital Institute of Child Health, the World Health Organization and the 1940 White House Conference. A sizable portion of the correspondence and reprints pertain to individual projects and publications. |
| Fredrickson, Donald S. / [1910-2002 (bulk 1960-1999)] |
Title: Donald S. Fredrickson Papers 1910-2002 (bulk 1960-1999)
Extent: 55.4 linear feet (53 boxes) Call Number: MS C 526 Abstract: Donald Sharp Fredrickson (1924-2002) was an American physiologist and science administrator who made contributions to American medicine over the course of four decades, first as a laboratory scientist, then as a leader of several prominent medical research institutions. As director of the National Institutes of Health from 1976 to 1981, Fredrickson mediated between scientists and the federal government during contentious, far-ranging debates over the direction of medical research policy, research funding, and the dangers of genetic engineering. The collection consists of a wide range of materials related to Fredrickson's scientific and administrative careers |
| Freis, Edward D. / [1926-2004] |
Title: Edward D. Freis Papers
1926-2004
Extent: 18.3 linear feet (21 boxes) Call Number: MS C 550 Abstract: A pioneer in the study of hypertension, Edward D. Freis, M.D., is best known for leading the 5-year Veterans Administration Cooperative Study on Antihypertensive Agents which proved the value of antihypertensive drugs in decreasing morbidity and mortality; this study was the first multi-clinic, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial of its kind. Freis's collection of articles, photographs, scrapbooks, and subject files chronicle his sixty-year career in the study of hypertension and hemodynamics. |
| Furman, Bess, 1894-1969 / [1962-1969] |
Title: Bess Furman (Armstrong) Papers - Project materials pertaining to a history of the U.S. Public Health Service
1962-1969
Extent: 32 MS boxes Call Number: MS C 202 Abstract: Manuscript copy, and related materials, of Furman's history of the Public Health Service, 1798-1948, ending with the administration of Dr. Thomas Parran. |
