Browse History of Medicine Finding Aids
There are 219 items in this collection Browsing Creators starting with p.
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| Creator / [Collection date] | Item information |
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| Page, Irvine H. / [1917-1989] |
Title: Irvine H. Page, M.D. Papers
1917-1989
Extent: 10.8 linear feet (12 ms boxes, 51 volumes, case items) Call Number: MS C 386 Abstract: Irvine H. Page, M.D., was born in 1901 in Indianapolis. From 1931 to 1937 while working with Dr. Donald Van Slyke at the Rockefeller Institute Dr. Page began a life-long series of investigations on hypertension. A large portion of the collection relates to the National Academy of Sciences. The collection also contains volumes of laboratory data and notes taken by Page from chemistry lectures in college, notes on his unpublished history of hypertension research, and copies of his editorials and reprints. |
| Papez, James W., b. 1883 / [1898-1982] |
Title: James Wenceslas Papez Papers
1898-1982
Extent: 2.5 linear feet Call Number: MS C 416 Abstract: Neuroanatomist, member of the faculty of Emory University, 1914-1920, and Cornell Medical School, 1920-1950, and Director of the Laboratory for Biological Research, Columbus State Hospital, Ohio, 1951-1958. Contains correspondence, photographs, typescripts, diagrams, drawings, notes and printed matter chiefly documenting Papez' work in comparative neuroanatomy from 1920 to 1958, as well as his curatorship of the Wilder Brain Collection at Cornell University. |
| Pirquet von Cesanatico, Clemens Peter, Freiherr, 1874-1929 / [1903-1926] |
Title: Pirquet von Cesenatico Papers
1903-1926
Extent: 6.26 linear feet Call Number: MS C 141 Abstract: Clemens Peter Freiherr von Pirquet was the progeny of a Lower Austrian noble family, the term Freiherr corresponding to English baron. He was creator of a classical diagnostic test for tuberculosis in which tuberculin is applied to a superficial abrasion of the skin of the arm. |
| Pritchard, Elizabeth Gaitland, 1902-1963 / [1936-1959] |
Title: Elizsabeth G. Pritchard Papers
1936-1959
Extent: 30 MS boxes Call Number: MS C 187 Abstract: Reports, documents, memoranda, drafts, correspondence, and printed matter pertaining to the U. S. Public Health Service. Subjects include a history of the U.S.P.H.S. during World War II; policies and activities in Civilian Health Districts 1-10; medical and social aspects of tuberculosis, venereal disease, malaria, sanitation, and industrial health; the Emergency Medical Service; care of sick and wounded; civil defense; health problems relating to the use of gas; public health administration; staff meetings of the Surgeon-General's Office; and other aspects of public health work. |
