Oral Hiatory Rasearob Office
Columbia Univers f t y
      1958

Prefatory Note

'In the spring of 1956 Dr. Alan Gregg decided to record his memoirs

sith the Oral History Research Office as part of a pilot study undertaken into
;he history of contemporary American Medicine. In the beginning some 250 inter-
riew hours wore projected. It was felt that such intensive interviews would
result not only in a fascinating autobiographioal account but also in a vivid
zistory of medicine in most countries of the world during our own time, and
2bove all in a frank history of the division of medical sciences of the Rock-
3feller Foundation. In all some 17 hours of interviews were held before Dr.
;reggs death last gear. The resultant Ms. is but a fragment of what Right have
3een. Dr. Saul Benison who conducted the interviews has edited the Ms with a
view to making it a chronological narrative.The memoir lacks the questions
lvhich Dr. Benison had put to Dr. Gregg.

PREFACE

    This manuscript is ths result of' a series of tape-
reoorded interviews aonduoted By Saul Benison of the Oral
Riatory Researoh Office with Dr. Alan Opegg during April,
May and June, 1956, at the Century Club, New York City.

The manusoripti has been carefully edited and is there-

fore not a verbatim accounts of the interviews; however, the
reader should bear in mind that &is Is R transoript OF the
spoken, rather than the written, word.

   The manuscript mag be read, quoted frm and cited%y
serlous Teaearoh soholars aooredited for purposes of research
by Columbia University in dsucsh plam made available for pur-
poses of research by Columbia University.

Bo reproduetion of thfs memoir, diBhtar in whole or in

part, may be made ba mioro-photo, typewriter, photostat or
any other devioe exclegt by Dr. Greggta heirs, legal represen-
taLives or a3signs,

%is does not inalude those portions on pg, 226 and 227 whiah
have been blztcrkerd out; acoording to the instruotions  af Mm.

f~egg.

They rill not be available to scholars until. Januery

1, 1973.

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