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Found in 814 Collections and/or Records:

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly,  April 24, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 6
Identifier: 02806001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas requests that Ira A. Shimer be assigned to the Sanitary Corps.

Dates:  April 24, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly with enclosed letter from Chief Sanitary Officer

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Robert M. O'Reilly,  June 3, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 14
Identifier: 02814001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas describes cases of yellow fever in the Canal Zone, and the reaction to the new Sanitary Commission.

Dates:  June 3, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to Ronald Ross,  August 9, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 19
Identifier: 02819001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas reports on conditions in Panama regarding yellow fever and malaria. He recommends that the Nobel Prize be given to America.

Dates:  August 9, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to the Surgeon General,  May 8, 1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 12
Identifier: 02612001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas informs [Sternberg] that Agramonte will be relieved of duty May 15, 1902.

Dates:  May 8, 1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Crawford Gorgas to William Howard Taft,  April 1, 1905

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 2
Identifier: 02802001
Scope and Contents

Gorgas responds to criticisms of Charles A. Reed. He presents an analysis of the Canal Zone Commission organization.

Dates:  April 1, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William F. Smith to Henry Rose Carter, June 21, 1905

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 41
Identifier: 00741001
Scope and Contents

Smith congratulates Carter for his promotion.

Dates: June 21, 1905
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Letter from William Gorgas Crawford to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  September 14, 1917

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 46
Identifier: 06246003
Scope and Contents

Gorgas discusses the manning of ambulance sections in France.

Dates:  September 14, 1917
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of William Crawford Gorgas and Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter from William H. Welch to George Miller Sternberg,  January 12, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 2
Identifier: 02002001
Scope and Contents

Welch gives a recommendation for Jesse W. Lazear. Included is a handwritten note by Truby.

Dates:  January 12, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Ludlow to Leonard Wood,  October 27, 1900

 Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56
Identifier: 02156001
Scope and Contents

Ludlow responds to Wood's accusation that data was concealed regarding the number of cases of yellow fever in Havana.[Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 27, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from William Ludlow to the Adjutant General,  October 27, 1900

 Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 58
Identifier: 02158001
Scope and Contents

Ludlow defends his position against Wood's charges of concealing facts about yellow fever in Havana. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 27, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter to Aristides Agramonte from the Assistant Surgeon General,  December 29, 1899

 Item — Box 19: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 46
Identifier: 01946001
Scope and Contents

Agramonte is informed that his contract as contract surgeon with the U.S. Army will be annulled on January 15, 1900. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  December 29, 1899
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letters from Walter Reed relating to military service,  September 23, 1885

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 80
Identifier: 01780003
Scope and Contents

Reed has requested four weeks of leave. His commanding officer has asked for an officer to replace him in his absence, but the request for replacement is denied.

Dates:  September 23, 1885
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to Walter Reed

Life and Letters of Dr. Walter Reed, by Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed,  circa 1930-1941

 Item — Box 49: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 04934050
Scope and Contents

This manuscript discusses Walter Reed's yellow fever experiments in Cuba and provides letters written by Reed.

Dates:  circa 1930-1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Drafts ofLife and Letters of Walter Reed, by Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed with related correspondence

Life and Letters of Walter Reed, by Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed, circa 1930-1941

 Item — Box 49: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 04934001
Scope and Contents

Reed reminisces about her father and includes letters written by her father to her mother. [Hench] notes inconsistencies with her transcriptions and the originals in the margins.

Dates: circa 1930-1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Drafts ofLife and Letters of Walter Reed, by Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed with related correspondence

List of items related to yellow fever in the possession of Philip Showalter Hench,  circa 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04232001
Scope and Contents

This document describes items related to yellow fever in detail; including letters, reports, medical charts, medals, artifacts, books, photographs, interview transcripts, magazines, and sketches.

Dates:  circa 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous notes, lists, and newspaper clippings of Philip Showalter Hench

List of microfilm data on Columbia Barracks Post Hospital in the National Archives selected by Philip Showalter Hench,  July 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 8
Identifier: 06308001
Scope and Contents

This list includes sanitary reports, inspection reports and disease reports. Furthermore, there are numerous documents listed concerning Reed.

Dates:  July 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / List of sources on microfilm selected from the National Archives by Philip Showalter for his yellow fever research with photographs, notes, and maps showing the site of Camp Lazear and the Columbia Barracks

List of microfilm in the National Archives pertaining to Columbia Barracks Post Hospital,  circa 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03822020
Scope and Contents

Hench's list records microfilmed documents from the National Archives, including official reports and correspondence concerning Columbia Barracks Post Hospital, from 1899 to 1901.

Dates:  circa 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

List of Patients Suffering from Epidemic Diseases: Experimental Yellow Fever,  December 1900

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 49
Identifier: 02449001
Scope and Contents

Fourteen patients are listed by name, place of birth, dates of illness and other details, for Camp Lazear, Columbia Barracks, Cuba.

Dates:  December 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Lists of Men Undergoing the Yellow Fever Experiments,  circa 1900

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 45
Identifier: 02545001
Scope and Contents

These are original lists of men undergoing the yellow fever experiments, with an autograph note by Hench.

Dates:  circa 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Maj. Gen. William Crawford Gorgas and the Gorgas Hospital,  March 1, 1928

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 47
Identifier: 03147001
Scope and Contents

Taylor gives a history of Ancon Hospital in Panama and the reasons why so many patients were infected with yellow fever. Taylor states that Gorgas was entirely responsible for the cleaning up of the hospitals and the Panama environs, and suggests that the name of Ancon Hospital be changed to the General Gorgas Hospital. A biographical sketch of Gorgas is included.

Dates:  March 1, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed