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Yellow fever

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2717 Collections and/or Records:

Mosquitoes' Deadly Work,The New York Times,  June 5, 1901

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 5
Identifier: N2505001
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:  June 5, 1901
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Mrs. Reed's Pension Indorsed,News,  January 31, 1903

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 15
Identifier: N2715005
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:  January 31, 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Articles recommending support of pension for Emilie Lawrence Reed

National Honors for the Yellow Fever Heroes,  circa 1929

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 24
Identifier: 03224001
Scope and Contents

This report chronicles the path to recognition for the members of the Yellow Fever Board, beginning with a 1906 letter from Theodore Roosevelt.

Dates:  circa 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

National Sanitation - Some Objections,The Havana Daily Telegraph,  August 27, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 95
Identifier: N2895012
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 27, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Newspaper accounts of yellow fever in Cienfuegos, Cuba and Magoon's administration of Cuba

Note from Henry Rose Carter [to J.H.L. Cumpston],  circa June 16, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 4
Identifier: 01104002
Scope and Contents

Carter's introductory note is to be inserted at the beginning of his article “The Chance of the Extension of Yellow Fever to Asia and Australia.”

Dates:  circa June 16, 1923
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 J.H.L. Cumpston with article

Note relating to a fever chart, circa 1899-1950

 Item — Box 19: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 23
Identifier: 01923003
Scope and Contents

This brief note discusses a sick patient.

Dates: circa 1899-1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Fever chart for yellow fever patient William Neary

Notes by Jefferson Randolph Kean for the Journal of Association of Military Surgeons,  September 28, 1926

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 70
Identifier: 06270001
Scope and Contents

Kean provides his analysis of the date of the initiation of anti-mosquito efforts in Havana. He cites a report by William Crawford Gorgas, which was written in 1904.

Dates:  September 28, 1926
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench

Notes by Jefferson Randolph Kean on Cuban yellow fever experiments,  August 6, 1943

 Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 1
Identifier: 06401139
Scope and Contents

Kean writes notes and memoranda about various yellow fever episodes.

Dates:  August 6, 1943
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

Notes by Philip Showalter Hench,  circa 1935-1955

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 61
Identifier: 02961001
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:  circa 1935-1955
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Correspondence of Aristides Agramonte relating to his role in the conquest of yellow fever with notes by Philip Showalter Hench

Notes for a lecture on yellow fever, by [Henry Rose Carter], circa 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 22
Identifier: 00922001
Scope and Contents

[Carter] deals extensively with the prophylaxis of yellow fever.

Dates: circa 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Notes for remarks upon the acceptance of The Order of Finlay,  1952

 Item — Box 44: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 10
Identifier: 04410001
Scope and Contents

[Hench] outlines remarks to be made upon his acceptance of “The Order of Finlay.” He speaks highly of Finlay and states that one of his most valued possessions is an original copy of Finlay's first paper on yellow fever and mosquitoes.

Dates:  1952
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Materials relating to Philip Showalter Hench's acceptance into The Order of Finlay

Notes from Henry Rose Carter to M.J. Rosenau,  circa 1924

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 14
Identifier: 01214001
Scope and Contents

Carter provides Rosenau with notes from his book on yellow fever. He discusses the origins of yellow fever, as well as other points about yellow fever and malaria.

Dates:  circa 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Notes listing the volunteers for the yellow fever experiments,  circa 1901

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 70
Identifier: 02570001
Scope and Contents

These three notes list the human-experiment volunteers who were exposed to fomites, infected by injections of blood, and infected by mosquitoes.

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

Notes of an interview with Jefferson Randolph Kean,  October 21, 1929

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 74
Identifier: 06274016
Scope and Contents

The interview centers on Kean's reluctance to give credit to the work done by Roger Ames during the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  October 21, 1929
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Correspondence of Jefferson Randolph Kean

Notes of Philip Showalter Hench,  circa 1940

 Item — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 15
Identifier: 03715013
Scope and Contents

Hench lists questions he has for Jefferson Randolph Kean and the curators at the Army Medical Museum and Library concerning the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  circa 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Miscellaneous notes, lists, and other materials of Philip Showalter Hench

Notes of [Philip Showalter Hench], circa 1930-1960

 Item — Box 65: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 12
Identifier: 06512012
Scope and Contents

[Hench] outlines details of the yellow fever investigation, including a diagram of the Board's laboratory at Columbia Barracks.

Dates: circa 1930-1960
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Miscellaneous notes and correspondence

Notes of [Wade Hampton Frost?] on Henry Rose Carter's work with yellow fever,  circa 1927

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01302004
Scope and Contents

[Frost's?] notes describe Carter's study of yellow fever incubation periods prior to Reed's experiments.

Dates:  circa 1927
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Laura Armistead Carter

Notes on Dinner for John J. Moran,  October 23, 1940

 Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 30
Identifier: 03630001
Scope and Contents

Atcheson Hench describes the setting, guests, conversations, and presentations at a dinner given in honor of Moran at which Kean described the yellow fever experiments and Moran answered questions from the guests.

Dates:  October 23, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Notes on Gustaf E. Lambert,  circa November 1946

 Item — Box 60: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 1
Identifier: 06001037
Scope and Contents

Kean comments on Lambert's possible inclusion on the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor.

Dates:  circa November 1946
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Materials relating to Gustaf E. Lambert

Notes on James Carroll,  circa 1940-1950

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 41
Identifier: 02841001
Scope and Contents

Truby discusses Carroll's career.

Dates:  circa 1940-1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letter from James Carroll to Surgeon General with related notes by Albert E. Truby