Human Experimentation

Letter from Gustaf E. Lambert to Philip Showalter Hench, January 11, 1955

Item — Box 49: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3

Identifier: 04903011

Scope and Contents

Lambert finds fault with the movie Yellow Jack, and criticizes Carroll and Agramonte while praising Ames.

Dates: January 11, 1955

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Guy Charles Moore Godfrey to Jefferson Randolph Kean, December 19, 1899

Item — Box 19: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 42

Identifier: 01942001

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Godfrey writes a confidential letter requesting the reassignment of Dr. Alden and Dr. Jackson, who do not work well with him.

Dates: December 19, 1899

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from [G.W.] Thomas to Howard A. Kelly, circa 1907

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31

Identifier: 02931046

Scope and Contents

Thomas sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates: circa 1907

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger

Letter from Harold C. Ernst to Caroline Latimer, February 10, 1909

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 65

Identifier: 02965001

Scope and Contents

Ernst discusses difficulties involving Carnegie funding for the Kissingers.

Dates: February 10, 1909

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Harold C. Ernst to Howard A. Kelly, November 27, 1908

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 52

Identifier: 02952001

Scope and Contents

Ernst seeks Kelly's advice in order to organize a campaign in support of Kissinger.

Dates: November 27, 1908

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Harold C. Ernst to William H. Welch, October 30, 1908

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50

Identifier: 02950001

Scope and Contents

Ernst seeks advice on the status of the Carnegie Hero Fund application for Kissinger.

Dates: October 30, 1908

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Harold Seidelin to Henry Rose Carter, March 9, 1915

Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 64

Identifier: 00764034

Scope and Contents

Seidelin claims that he has successfully infected a guinea pig with yellow fever. He hopes to receive U.S. Public Health Service support.

Dates: March 9, 1915

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Harry L. Freer to Philip Showalter Hench, February 28, 1941

Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 3

Identifier: 03803035

Scope and Contents

Freer informs Hench that his office cannot find the key to the map of Columbia Barracks, Cuba. However, he suggests that a participant from the time period might be able to help. Furthermore, there is no record that a map of Camp Lazear was ever prepared.

Dates: February 28, 1941

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Harvey Cushing to Howard A. Kelly, October 2, 1907

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6

Identifier: 02906001

Scope and Contents

Cushing writes about plans to speak at a meeting in support of Jennie Carroll.

Dates: October 2, 1907

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Harvey E. Jordan to Philip Showalter Hench, September 26, 1940

Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 16

Identifier: 03616020

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Jordan informs Hench of the arrangements for a University of Virginia dinner in Moran's honor.

Dates: September 26, 1940

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous letters received by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Harvey E. Jordan to Philip Showalter Hench, October 24, 1940

Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34

Identifier: 03634031

Scope and Contents

Jordan writes about the Moran dinner, held the night before, and reports that Moran spoke very well.

Dates: October 24, 1940

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence received by Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Helen M. Sturgis to Howard A. Kelly, circa 1907

Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31

Identifier: 02931050

Scope and Contents

Sturgis sends a contribution for Kissinger.

Dates: circa 1907

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence relating to contributions for the support of John R. Kissinger

Letter from Henry E. Sigerist to Philip Showalter Hench, December 26, 1940

Item — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 10

Identifier: 03710001

Scope and Contents

Sigerist would like to publish Hench's lecture on the history of the Yellow Fever Commission in Johns Hopkins University's "Bulletin of the History of Medicine."

Dates: December 26, 1940

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous correspondence and notes of Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Henry Rose Carter to Albert E. Truby, March 4, 1922

Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 36

Identifier: 00736001

Scope and Contents

Carter discusses the accounts of Carroll, Gorgas, and Agramonte regarding Lazear's death.

Dates: March 4, 1922

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Henry Rose Carter to George E. Vincent, June 14, 1922

Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 33

Identifier: 00933011

Scope and Contents

Carter requests clarification of the veracity of a controversial study published by the Rockefeller Foundation, in 1921, regarding yellow fever and human experimentation.

Dates: June 14, 1922

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Henry Rose Carter to J. McKeen Cattell, December 2, 1919

Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 18

Identifier: 00818117

Scope and Contents

Carter informs Cattell that he published two papers on the incubation of yellow fever, which were the basis of Reed's experiments with the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates: December 2, 1919