Box 65
Contains 84 Results:
Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench, 1949-1950
Obituary of Brigadier General Jefferson Randolph Kean,The Military Surgeon, November 1950
The Annual Report of the Monticello Association, 1950
The report contains a memorial to Jefferson Randolph Kean.
Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench, 1951-1952
Scrapbook created by Albert E. Truby that contains photographs, clippings, correspondence, reviews, and telegrams relating to Truby's book,Memoir of Walter Reed: The Yellow Fever Episode, 1942-1953
The Scientific Experiments in Cuba in 1900-1901 by the Walter Reed Board with Special Emphasis on the Cost of the Experiments to the United States Government, July 1, 1953
Truby, by examining the stubs of the checkbook used to disburse funds at Camp Lazear, analyzes the cost of the yellow fever experiments. He produces a figure of $6,500.
Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench, 1953-1955
Book review for Albert E. Truby's book,Memoir of Walter Reed, circa 1944
Sanitary work in Cubaa lecture by Jefferson Randolph Kean with notes by Albert E. Truby, May 2, 1910
[Kean] gives a brief summary of conditions in Cuba before the arrival of the Yellow Fever Board. He provides an account of the activities of the Board, which ultimately shows the mosquito as the bearer of yellow fever. Included are notes by Truby.
I Became a Guinea Pig
an episode fromBig Moments in a Little Life, circa 1940-1955
Andrus describes the work of the Yellow Fever Board and his role as a volunteer. He provides exacting lists of his fellow volunteers and their cases of yellow fever.
Miscellaneous notes and envelopes, circa 1920-1955
Miscellaneous notes and correspondence, circa 1900-1960
Letter from D.S. Lamb to Jefferson Randolph Kean, October 19, 1927
The letter concerns Lamb's recollection of Walter Reed's last days.
Miscellaneous publications, circa 1940-1960
Philip Showalter Hench's sketch of a proposed museum building at the Camp Lazear site, circa 1940-1960
Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench, February 17, 1949
Truby congratulates Hench for his work in “that most terrible of all crippling diseases,” and asks him to help block the effort of Senator Lucas to have Gustaf E. Lambert admitted to the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor. He also states that Jernegan was the bravest volunteer.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Jefferson Randolph Kean and Albert E. Truby, August 16, 1949
Hench explains to Kean and Truby that he has been so occupied with cortisone research that he has had no time for his Reed project. He has accepted the position of chairman of a research committee on rheumatic diseases.
Letter from Paul L. Tate to [Philip Showalter Hench], September 25, 1949
Tate informs [Hench] that he was the medical records clerk at Columbia Barracks during the yellow fever experiments. He claims that Ames was the real hero and yet became the forgotten man because he was simply a contract doctor.
Letter from Paul L. Tate to Albert E. Truby, October 6, 1949
Tate writes that he was under Truby's command in Cuba and has read all the books about the yellow fever experiments. He maintains that Truby's is the only real, factual account and requests a copy of the book.
Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Jefferson Randolph Kean, October 14, 1949
Hench appreciates the letters from Sternberg and Finlay. He hopes to see the Wood papers the next time he is in Washington, D.C.