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Military Medicine

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 814 Collections and/or Records:

Lecture:Sanitation Work in Cuba, by Jefferson Randolph Kean,  May 23, 1912

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 42
Identifier: 06242020
Scope and Contents

Kean discusses the sanitation efforts used to prevent yellow fever in Cuba from 1906 to 1909. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  May 23, 1912
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Lectures on sanitation in Cuba by Jefferson Randolph Kean

Letter and notes from Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon to Philip Showalter Hench,  October 10, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 26
Identifier: 03626001
Scope and Contents

Mrs. Agramonte Rodriguez Leon discusses her father's views on Lazear's and Carroll's actions and roles in the yellow fever experiments, commenting specifically on Hench's notes.

Dates:  October 10, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Correspondence of Philip Showalter Hench with Estela Agramonte Rodriguez Leon

Letter fragment from Paul L. Tate,  circa 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04732007
Scope and Contents

Tate finds fault with Howard's play about yellow fever.

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

Letter fragment from [Paul L. Tate] to William M. Brumby,  circa 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 04732005
Scope and Contents

[Tate] thinks it is a shame that worthy men such as Finlay, Ames, and Lambert were not included in the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor.

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

Letter fragment from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  circa December 25, 1900

 Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 57
Identifier: 02257001
Scope and Contents

Reed provides a description of the experiment buildings at Camp Lazear and the method of mosquito inoculation.

Dates:  circa December 25, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  December 28, 1900

 Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 58
Identifier: 02258001
Scope and Contents

Reed describes the round of holiday parties, including one at the governor's palace, in Havana. He injects blood from the last yellow fever patient into a volunteer.

Dates:  December 28, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  circa January 1, 1901

 Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 59
Identifier: 02259001
Scope and Contents

Reed writes that the yellow fever experiments have answered his prayers to do some good for mankind.

Dates:  circa January 1, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed July 21,  July 21, 1879

 Item — Box 17: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 49
Identifier: 01749001
Scope and Contents

Reed writes about finances, promising to send money to her. She wants him to get an eastern assignment. He gives news about acquaintances.

Dates:  July 21, 1879
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment to from Walter Reed to Emilie Lawrence Reed,  December 9, 1900

 Item — Box 22: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 31
Identifier: 02231001
Scope and Contents

Reed announces the first proven case of yellow fever from a mosquito bite. The diagnosis of the case will be tested by experts.

Dates:  December 9, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter fragment to [William M. Brumby],  April 16, 1956

 Item — Box 49: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 4
Identifier: 04904020
Scope and Contents

The author does not believe that Ames was ever officially transferred to the Board. However, he does think that no one could have done the work of caring for the yellow fever patients as well as Ames.

Dates:  April 16, 1956
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 A. B. Darragh to Elihu Root,  October 26, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 1
Identifier: 02401037
Scope and Contents

Darragh requests that Root detail Walter Reed to attend a medical conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan in order to present a paper about his yellow fever research. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  October 26, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military orders for Walter Reed

Letter from A. S. Pinto to Albert E. Truby,  September 7, 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 6
Identifier: 06306079
Scope and Contents

Pinto informs Truby that his manuscript is well written and compatible with the facts.

Dates:  September 7, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from A. T. Gilhus to Philip Showalter Hench,  November 20, 1946

 Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 5
Identifier: 06405214
Scope and Contents

Gilhus relates his experiences at Camp Columbia and describes the camp in detail.

Dates:  November 20, 1946
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from A.E. Bates to Jesse W. Lazear, February 6, 1900

 Item — Box 3: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 8
Identifier: 00308001
Scope and Contents

Lazear's army contract has been received.

Dates: February 6, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series I. Jesse W. Lazear

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Jefferson Randolph Kean,  February 1, 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 1
Identifier: 06301152
Scope and Contents

Truby feels that he has provided Hench information in accordance with Kean's views and hopes they have provided Hench with better information than what he gathered in Cuba.

Dates:  February 1, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to J.F. Siler,  February 4, 1948

 Item — Box 42: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 5
Identifier: 04205007
Scope and Contents

Truby discusses the location of the room where Walter Reed died. Truby requested and received floor plans from the commanding officer of Washington Barracks, where Reed died. However, they do not conform with his memory. Truby feels that he cannot make any positive statement as to the exact location of the room unless they unearth something to solve this discrepancy.

Dates:  February 4, 1948
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 Albert E. Truby to Paul L. Tate,  January 15, 1950

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 1
Identifier: 06501089
Scope and Contents

Truby provides Tate with information about Captain Alexander N. Stark.

Dates:  January 15, 1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  July 11, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 66
Identifier: 03566001
Scope and Contents

This letter contains Truby's recollections of the Yellow Fever Commission work and excerpts of his own history of the Yellow Fever Commission concerning Jesse W. Lazear.

Dates:  July 11, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Letters from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  July 30, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 66
Identifier: 03566005
Scope and Contents

This letter contains Truby's recollections of the Yellow Fever Commission work and excerpts of his own [then incomplete] history of the Yellow Fever Commission - concerning Jesse W. Lazear.

Dates:  July 30, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Letters from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench

Letter from Albert E. Truby to Philip Showalter Hench,  October 6, 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 6
Identifier: 06306117
Scope and Contents

Truby mentions the uniforms worn in Cuba and also asks to view a map of Cuba in 1899 to refresh his memory.

Dates:  October 6, 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench