Browse History of Medicine Finding Aids
There are 219 items in this collection Browsing Creators starting with s.
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| Creator / [Collection date] | Item information |
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| Sawyer, Wilbur Augustus, 1879-1951 / [1879-1995] |
Title: Wilbur A. Sawyer Papers
1879-1995
Extent: 4.2 linear feet Call Number: MS C 69 Abstract: Sawyer is best known for his role in developing a vaccine for yellow fever and working to eradicate the disease as a public health threat whle working for the Rockefeller Foundation's West Africa Yellow Fever Commission. |
| Schwabe, Calvin Walter / [1944-1992] |
Title: Calvin Walter Schwabe Papers
1944-1992
Extent: 43 linear feet (34 boxes, 27 volumes) Call Number: MS C 490 Abstract: Dr. Calvin Schwabe, veterinarian and public health scientist, has been throughout his career a leading worker at the interface of human and veterinary medicine. Dr. Schwabe was a member of the medical and public health faculties of the American University of Beirut, where he developed a significant research program on hydatid disease and other parasitic zoonoses, founded a joint Department of Tropical Health within those two faculties in l957, and a Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics within the School of Public Health in l962. He also established the first department and graduate program in epidemiology within a school of veterinary medicine at the University of California, Davis. |
| Scott, Ernest Lyman, 1877-1966 / [1897-1966] |
Title: Ernest Lyman Scott Papers
1897-1966
Extent: 7 MS boxes Call Number: MS C 165 Abstract: Correspondence, transcripts of interview and conversations, laboratory notebooks, photos, testimonial volume, reprints and printed matter. Much of the material pertains to research and priority in the discovery of insulin. |
| Sebrell, William H. (William Henry), 1901- / [1915-1987] |
Title: W. H. Sebrell Papers 1915-1987
Extent: 4.2 linear feet (10 boxes) Call Number: MS C 354 Abstract: Sebrell was appointed director of the National Institutes of Health in 1950. |
| Senn, Milton J. E., 1902- / [1927-1983] |
Title: Milton J.E. Senn Papers
1927-1983
Extent: 5 linear feet Call Number: MS C 280a Abstract: |
| Senn, Milton J. E., 1902- / [1975-1978] |
Title: American Child Guidance Clinic and Child Psychiatry Movement Interview Collection
1975-1978
Extent: 1.68 linear feet (80 interviews) Call Number: OH 76 Abstract: |
| Shannon, James A. (James Augustine), 1904- / [1924-1975] |
Title: James A. Shannon Papers
1924-1975
Extent: 30 MS boxes Call Number: MS C 363 Abstract: Correspondence, talks, articles, reports and documents, photographs, certificates and diplomas. Dr. Shannon was on the faculty of the New York University College of Medicine from 1929-46. In 1946 he joined the National Institutes of Health, and from 1955-68 Dr. Shannon was Director of the NIH. In 1970 he became Professor and Special Assistant to the President of the Rockefeller University. |
| Shear, Murray J. / [1908-1983] |
Title: Murray J. Shear Papers
1908-1983
Extent: 27.6 linear feet Call Number: MS C 548 Abstract: Correspondence, reports, minutes, reprints documenting Dr. Shear's professional activities with the National Cancer Institute, including interaction with the International Union Against Cancer and the American Association for Cancer Research. |
| Shelesnyak, M.C. (Moses Chaim), 1909- / [1946-1979] |
Title: Moses Chaim Shelesnyak Papers
1946-1979
Extent: 7.9 linear feet, 19 boxes Call Number: MS C 405 Abstract: Dr. Shelesnyak received his doctorate from Columbia University, and taught physiology, pharmacology, and human growth and development. Includes biographical data, correspondence files with individuals and organizations, U.S. Navy material relating to arctic research, meetings, and conference data, reviews, and publications. |
| Shorter, Edward / [1986-1987] |
Title: Edward Shorter "The Health Century" Oral History Collection
1986-1987
Extent: 0.75 linear feet Call Number: OH 136 Abstract: The collection consists of interviews conducted by Edward Shorter in preparation for his book The Health Century (1987). |
| Siegel, Henry / [1964-1985] |
Title: Henry Siegel Papers on alleged tubocurarine poisonings
1964-1985
Extent: 7.1 linear feet (17 boxes) Call Number: MS C 437 Abstract: Correspondence, autopsy report, depositions, and transcripts of court records accumulated by the pathologists hired by the defense in the trial of "Dr. X," Mario E. Jascalevich. |
| Sloan U.S. Army General Hospital / [1857-1866] |
Title: Sloan U.S. Army General Hospital Records
1857-1866
Extent: 1.2 linear feet Call Number: MSC 434 Abstract: Sloan General Hospital was a Union Army hospital, located in Montpelier, Vt. and was in operation between May 1864 and October 1865. |
| Society for Research in Child Development / [1963-1979] |
Title: Society for Research in Child Development - Frances K. Graham Presidential Papers
1963-1979
Extent: 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes) Call Number: MS C 435 Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, and reports of the society during Graham's tenure on the Governing Council and as president of the SRCD. |
| Society for Research in Child Development / [1920-1996] |
Title: Society for Research in Child Development Records
1920-1996
Extent: 16.17 linear feet Call Number: MS C 387 Abstract: Organizational records of the Society and material on membership, meetings, publications, and Society business. |
| Society of General Physiologists / [1945-1996] |
Title: Society of General Physiologists Archives
1945-1996
Extent: 4.6 linear feet (13 boxes) Call Number: MS C 469 Abstract: The Society of General Physiologists was organized in 1945 under the leadership of R. Chambers, E. N. Harvey, L. V. Heilbrunn and M. H. Jacobs. Its purpose was to promote and advance the subject of general physiology and to provide a structure for general physiologists of different training and backgrounds to meet and exchange ideas. The archives of the Society as found in the National Library of Medicine are an amalgam of several different collections of records. |
| Society of University Surgeons / [1939-1989] |
Title: Society of University Surgeons Archives
1939-1989
Extent: 10 MS boxes + 39 volumes Call Number: MS C 381 Abstract: Correspondence, data on meetings, and printed matter. The collection also includes some photographs, information on finances, and miscellaneous materials pertaining to the Society. |
| Sontag, Lester Warren, 1901- / [1933-1969] |
Title: Lester W. Sontag Papers
1933-1969
Extent: 0.42 linear feet Call Number: MS C 280f Abstract: |
| Soper, Fred L. (Fred Lowe), 1893- / [1919-1975] |
Title: Fred Lowe Soper Papers
1919-1975
Extent: 30 linear feet (75 boxes, 114 vols.) Call Number: MS C 359 Abstract: Dr. Fred Soper joined the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1920 and engaged in the hookworm campaigns in Brazil and Paraguay (1920-1927). From 1927-1942 he was Regional Director of the IHD, at Rio de Janeiro, and was active in the study and control of yellow fever and malaria. Dr. Soper was Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau for three terms (1947-1959). The collection contains an extensive file of publications, notes, and other data relating to yellow fever and malaria, including Gorgas Memorial Institute and Pan American Sanitary Bureau material. |
| Spiegelman, Sol, 1914- / [1929-1983] |
Title: Sol Spiegelman Papers
1929-1983
Extent: 113.5 linear feet (95 boxes) Call Number: MS C 561 Abstract: Sol Spiegelman (1914-1983) was an American microbiologist who made several important contributions in the fields of microbial genetics and cancer research, particularly the discovery of RNA/DNA hybridization and the first synthesis of an infectious nucleic acid. Biographical material, correspondence, laboratory notebooks, published and unpublished writings, academic course material, subject files, memoranda, and illustrations document Sol Spiegelman's professional career as a microbiologist. |
| Stanton, Mearl F. (Mearl Frederick), 1922-1980 / [1931-1980] |
Title: Mearl F. Stanton Papers
1931-1980
Extent: 4.2 linear feet (10 MS boxes) Call Number: MS C 432 Abstract: Stanton's early work at the National Cancer Institute was on chemically-induced carcinogenesis, after which he shifted to viral oncology. His last years were spent working on fiber carcinogenesis, and in particular on the carcinogenic effect of asbestos. |
| Sternberg, George Miller / [1861-1917] |
Title: George Miller Sternberg Papers
1861-1917
Extent: 0.63 linear feet Call Number: MS C 100 Abstract: Contains correspondence, documents, certificates, and printed matter. Correspondence consists chiefly of congratulatory letters on becoming Surgeon General, acknowledgments for reprints, and letters from senators and congressmen pertaining to promotion to grade of major general. Printed matter consists of book reviews and information relating to inventions of Sternberg. |
| Stetten, DeWitt, Jr. / [1936-1990] |
Title: DeWitt Stetten, Jr. Papers
1936-1990
Extent: 3.8 linear feet (9 boxes) Call Number: MS C 474 Abstract: DeWitt Stetten, Jr., informally know as Hans, was a noted biochemist and Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health. The collection primarily documents Stetten's post-NIH activities between 1979 and 1990 when he acted as a consultant to the NIH, especially through his personal correspondence which makes up the bulk of the collection. |
| Stewart, Harold L. (Harold Leroy), b. 1899- / [1946-1978] |
Title: Harold Leroy Stewart Papers
1946-1978
Extent: 75 MS boxes and case items Call Number: MS C 228 Abstract: Dr. Harold Stewart became Chief of the Laboratory of Pathology, National Cancer Institute, in 1939, and was appointed chief of the Pathological Anatomy Department, National Institutes of Health, in 1954. He retired from NIH in 1969. |
| Stolz, Lois Meek / [1917-1984] |
Title: Lois Meek and Herbert Rowell Stolz Papers
1917-1984
Extent: 6.7 linear feet (16 boxes) Call Number: MS C 414 Abstract: The collection includes the papers of Herbert Rowell Stolz. It also contains biographical and genealogical data, correspondence files with individuals and organizations, child development materials, lecture notes, talks, typescripts, reprints, and photographs. |
| Strickland, Stephen P. (Stephen Parks) / [1986-1987] |
Title: Stephen Strickland NIH Extramural Programs Oral History Collection
1986-1987
Extent: 0.63 linear feet Call Number: OH 137 Abstract: The collection contains transcripts of interviews conducted by Stephen Strickland between 1986-1987 as part of a project to write a history of the extramural programs at NIH. |
| Stubbs, George E. (George Eastman), 1839-1909 / [1854-1932] |
Title: George Eastman Stubbs Papers 1854-1932
Extent: 1.34 linear feet (3 boxes) Call Number: MS C 576 Abstract: Personal papers collection documenting a small portion of the life of Philadelphia physician George Stubbs, a principle founder of the Medico-Chirugical College in Philadelphia. |
| Swan, Henry, 1913 / [1935-1996] |
Title: Henry Swan II Papers 1935-1996
Extent: 14.65 linear feet (15 boxes) Call Number: MS C 575 Abstract: U.S. heart surgeon Henry Swan II made significant contributions to the development of open heart surgery techniques, particularly through his research in hypothermia and suspended circulation. Dr. Swan's professional career as a cardiac surgeon is documented in a collection of surgery records, correspondence, reprints, book drafts, speeches, reports, and biographical material. |
| Sydenham Hospital, Baltimore / [1909-1962] |
Title: Sydenham Hospital Records 1909-1962
Extent: 63.85 linear feet (150 boxes) Call Number: MS C 243 Abstract: The patient records of Sydenham Hospital offer an invaluable insight into the nature and treatment of communicable diseases in the pre-antibiotic era. |
