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Military Medicine

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 814 Collections and/or Records:

Floor plan of the yellow fever ward, Las Animas Hospital,  circa 1900

 Item — Box 89: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 8
Identifier: P8908001
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IX. Photographs consists primarily of photographs that Philip Showalter Hench created and collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1846 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from around 1870 to around 1960. The subjects shown in the photographs include, but are not limited to the following: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  circa 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating to Las Animas hospital; Ciudad Militar (Camp Columbia); and Havana, Cuba

Following the Wandering Trail of the Conquerors of Yellow Fever, by Philip Showalter Hench, 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 33
Identifier: 04733001
Scope and Contents

In this outline, Hench lists and describes sites associated with the conquerors of yellow fever located in and near Havana. One list arranges the sites in chronological sequence, the other in geographical sequence.

Dates: 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Following the Wandering Trail of the Conquerors of Yellow Fever, by Philip Showalter Hench, 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 38
Identifier: uva-lib:2229150
Scope and Contents

In this outline, Hench lists and describes sites associated with the conquerors of yellow fever located in and near Havana. One list arranges the sites in chronological sequence, the other in geographical sequence.

Dates: 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Fomites building, Camp Lazear, Quemados de Marianao, Cuba,  February 1901

 Item — Box 90: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 12
Identifier: P9012001
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IX. Photographs consists primarily of photographs that Philip Showalter Hench created and collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1846 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from around 1870 to around 1960. The subjects shown in the photographs include, but are not limited to the following: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  February 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of "false" and actual sites of Camp Lazear, Cuba

Fragment of a statement regarding Walter Reed,  circa 1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 37
Identifier: 02737001
Scope and Contents

Kean states that Reed did not give up his life demonstrating the mosquito theory. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  circa 1904
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Miscellaneous materials relating to the military career of Walter Reed

Fragment ofReport of the Surgeon General of the Army to the Secretary of War for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1903,  June 30, 1903

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 11
Identifier: 02711001
Scope and Contents

O'Reilly reports about the state of yellow fever in the United States and foreign territories, and claims that it will not be a factor for health concerns in the future. He also includes a chart which details the admissions of important diseases by months for 1902. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  June 30, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Frank Bucholtz, Hospital Corpsman at Military Hospital Number One, Havana, Cuba,  circa 1900

 Item — Box 89: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 75
Identifier: P8975001
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IX. Photographs consists primarily of photographs that Philip Showalter Hench created and collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1846 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from around 1870 to around 1960. The subjects shown in the photographs include, but are not limited to the following: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  circa 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating to Las Animas hospital; Ciudad Militar (Camp Columbia); and Havana, Cuba

From left to right: Sgt. Oliver H. Hastings, Capt. Peter C. Field, and Major Jefferson Randolph Kean in Marianao, Cuba,  circa 1900

 Item — Box 81: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 84
Identifier: P8184001
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IX. Photographs consists primarily of photographs that Philip Showalter Hench created and collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1846 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from around 1870 to around 1960. The subjects shown in the photographs include, but are not limited to the following: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  circa 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of Havana, Cuba and its environs; General Fitzhugh Lee's Headquarters in Cuba; the U.S.S.<emph render="italic">Maine</emph>; and Hideyo Noguchi

Gust E. Lambert - Yellow Fever Nurse, by Paul L. Tate,  circa 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04732006
Scope and Contents

[Tate] gives a brief account of Lambert's achievements as a sailor and nurse.

Dates:  circa 1954
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Essays and letters by Paul L. Tate relating to the yellow fever experiments

Honorable discharge certificate for John J. Moran,  July 2, 1900

 Item — Box 20: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 02050001
Scope and Contents

Moran is honorably discharged from the Army of the United States, with permission to re-enlist.

Dates:  July 2, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Hospital at Rowell Barracks, Cuba,  1900

 Item — Box 80: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 83
Identifier: P8083001
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IX. Photographs consists primarily of photographs that Philip Showalter Hench created and collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1846 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from around 1870 to around 1960. The subjects shown in the photographs include, but are not limited to the following: physicians, military personnel, nurses,...
Dates:  1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs relating to Jesse W. Lazear. sites in Cuba, Charles G. Sontag, John J. Moran, Walter Reed, Albert E. Truby, Leonard Wood, A.S. Pinto, and Theobold Smith

Hospital buildings, Camp Columbia, Havana, Cuba,  May 1908

 Item — Box 76: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 74
Identifier: P7674001
Scope and Contents

Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps

Dates:  May 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IX. Photographs / Photographs of Walter Reed's birthplace, yellow fever epidemic scenes, Camp Columbia, and various persons related to the yellow fever experiments

Hospital camp, Pinar del Rio, Cuba,  1898

 Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 11
Identifier: P5811061
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VI. Alphabetical files primarily consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1860 to around 1966 with the bulk of the items dating from 1940 to 1956. All of these items have been arranged thematically into biographical files. Each file contains materials created by or relating to people who were either involved with the yellow fever experiments or aided Philip Showalter...
Dates:  1898
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Robert Page Cooke

House of Representatives Bill No. 13060,  April 30, 1928

 Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 52
Identifier: 03152001
Scope and Contents

Congressional Bill and Report #1429 recognizes the public service of Reed and the volunteers associated with the yellow fever experiments. Biographical information is supplied in Report #1429 regarding each of the members and volunteers of the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  April 30, 1928
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

I Became a Guinea Pigan episode fromBig Moments in a Little Life,  circa 1940-1955

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 10
Identifier: 06510001
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates:  circa 1940-1955
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

In a Yellow-Fever Camp: How the Pestilence Made Its Presence Known in Siboney---The American Hospital Tents in the Mountains--A Brave Physician and His Scanty Equipment,The Argonaut,  August 14, 1899

 Item — Box 19: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 27
Identifier: N1927001
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series III. Walter Reed consists of materials that document the life of Walter Reed as well as the work and legacy of the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in the series date from 1806 to around 1955 with the bulk of the items dating from 1874 to 1936. The series is particularly rich in materials that document the professional and personal life of Walter Reed from 1874 to his death in 1902. These materials include, but are not limited to the following:...
Dates:  August 14, 1899
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Inoculacion por los Mosquitos - Entrevista con el Consul Espanol,La Discusion,  November 22, 1900

 Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 10
Identifier: 02210002
Scope and Contents

In this article, taken from La Discusion (November 22, 1900 - page 1), the Spanish ambassador is interviewed regarding the rumor of human experimentation by the Yellow Fever Commission.

Dates:  November 22, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Articles on yellow fever

Inspection report from J. C. McKee to the Surgeon General,  1877

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 24
Identifier: 01724001
Scope and Contents

McKee reports to the Surgeon General that Reed has his hospital in “most excellent condition.” He also mentions Reed's personal qualities that have won him the confidence of all. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  1877
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Interview with Frank R. McCoy,  February 19, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 4
Identifier: 04204001
Scope and Contents

McCoy, aide to Governor-General Leonard Wood during the yellow fever experiments, comments on Wood's dismissal of the importance of Finlay's mosquito work, Wood's intervention with Surgeon General Sternberg to keep Reed's work going, and the location and arrangement of Wood's offices. McCoy stresses Wood's strong support of Reed and his work.

Dates:  February 19, 1948
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Interview with Lawrence Reed and Blossom Reed,  November 21, 1946

 Item — Box 41: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 19
Identifier: 04119002
Scope and Contents

Hench questions Walter Reed's children about their father.

Dates:  November 21, 1946
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Interview with Lawrence [Walter L.] Reed and Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed at 2810-36th Place, Washington, D.C.