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Tropical medicine

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 724 Collections and/or Records:

Interview of John J. Moran by Philip Showalter Hench,  April 3, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 03532001

Interview of John J. Moran by Philip Showalter Hench, April 3, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 03532007

Interview of John R. Bullard,  April 16, 1941

 Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 9
Identifier: 03809018
Scope and Contents

This is Hench's write-up of his interview with Bullard, focusing on Bullard's experience during the yellow fever experiments. Hench's autograph notes are included.

Dates:  April 16, 1941

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

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

Interview with Paul L. Tate by Philip Showalter Hench,  June 21, 1954

 Item — Box 47: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 15
Identifier: 04715001
Scope and Contents

Tate responds to a series of questions from Hench concerning his recollections about Camp Columbia and the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  June 21, 1954

Introduction to Albert E. Truby's memoir, by Jefferson Randolph Kean,  September 15, 1942

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 10
Identifier: 06310159
Scope and Contents

Kean introduces Truby's Memoir on the yellow fever experiments, providing background information on the experiments themselves, as well as background on the author.

Dates:  September 15, 1942

James L. Hanberry and Walter L. Reed at the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Washington, D.C.,  May 1948

 Item — Box 88: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 15
Identifier: P8815001
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:  May 1948

Jesse W. Lazear's album of photographs from Cuba and his boyhood home, "Windsor",  1899-1900

 File — Box 78: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 57
Identifier: uva-lib:2230544
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:  1899-1900

La fiebre amarilla, by Henry Rose Carter, March 26, 1914

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 20
Identifier: 00920002
Scope and Contents

Carter discusses the transmission, spread and containment of yellow fever.

Dates: March 26, 1914

La Fiebre Amarilla en 40 Años,  circa 1919

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 34
Identifier: 00934008
Scope and Contents

This chart tracks the number of cases of yellow fever per year, from 1880-1919, in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Dates:  circa 1919

Laboratory Building at Camp Columbia with notes by Philip Showalter Hench,  circa 1930-1950

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 8
Identifier: P6308014
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench primarily consists of materials relating to Albert E. Truby and Jefferson Randolph Kean that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1879 to around 1960 with the bulk of the items dating from 1900 to 1954. These items include, but are not limited to the following: correspondence of...
Dates:  circa 1930-1950

Laboratory building, Las Animas Hospital,  circa 1900

 Item — Box 89: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 10
Identifier: P8910001
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

Laboratory Findings[for yellow fever case in West Africa], by Hideyo Noguchi,  May 24, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: 01021064
Scope and Contents

Noguchi discusses the pathological reports of a possible yellow fever case in Lagos, Nigeria.

Dates:  May 24, 1923

Lady Watson, N. H. Swellengrebel, H. E. Shortt, Dr. Hackett, and Joseph A. LePrince at the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Washington, D.C.,  May 1948

 Item — Box 88: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 11
Identifier: P8811001
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:  May 1948

Las Secciones and Higiene General,Diario de la Marina,  February 8, 1901

 Item — Box 24: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 37
Identifier: N2437001
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:  February 8, 1901

Lecture on the Prophylaxis of Yellow Fever, by [Henry Rose Carter],  circa 1922

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 6
Identifier: 01006001
Scope and Contents

[Carter] discusses the prevention of yellow fever, including past experiments involving control of the human host vs. control of mosquitoes.

Dates:  circa 1922

Lecture:Sanitation Work in Cuba, by Jefferson Randolph Kean,  1910

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 42
Identifier: 06242002
Scope and Contents

Kean details the methods the Sanitary Inspectors used in Cuba to combat yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  1910

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

Letter and report with appendixes from Oliver L. Pothier to Joseph H. White relating to the Rockefeller Foundation's investigation of the epidemic of Bucaramanga, Columbia,  August 20, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 38
Identifier: 01138033
Scope and Contents

Pothier sends White his final report on the 1923 Yellow Fever Commission inspection tour of Colombia. He describes travel, meetings with government officials, and incidence of yellow fever and mosquitoes. A series of appended documents [two in Spanish] discuss preparations for the trip, the suspected epidemic in Bucaramanga, individual yellow fever cases, and further details of the tour.

Dates:  August 20, 1923

Letter fragment from E.W. Mitchel, April 30, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 7
Identifier: 00907016
Scope and Contents

Mitchel complains about his problems with the Peruvian government. He encloses a copy of a letter from M.L. Vega regarding his situation.

Dates: April 30, 1921