Yellow fever
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2717 Collections and/or Records:
The Suppression of Yellow Fever
,The New York Times, July 11, 1901
Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 14
Identifier: N2514001
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:
July 11, 1901
The Tale of a Guinea Pig, by John H. Andrus, circa 1941
Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05806012
Scope and Contents
Andrus describes his role as a volunteer in the yellow fever experiments.
Dates:
circa 1941
The Tale of a Guinea Pig, by John H. Andrus, circa 1942
Item — Box 58: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 6
Identifier: 05806075
Scope and Contents
In a second draft of his manuscript, Andrus describes the yellow fever experiments and discusses his participation as a volunteer.
Dates:
circa 1942
The Third Mosquito Victim
,The New York Times, August 25, 1901
Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 29
Identifier: N2529001
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 25, 1901
The Walter Reed Memorial
,The Medical Record, December 16, 1906
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 64
Identifier: 02864001
Scope and Contents
This article, which appeared in the "Medical Record," discusses efforts to erect a monument to Walter Reed.
Dates:
December 16, 1906
The Yellow Fever Roll of Honor, February 16, 1928
Item — Box 31: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 43
Identifier: 03143001
Scope and Contents
The Roll of Honor lists the Yellow Fever Commission members, Reed experiment volunteers and persons involved in the Gorgas-Guiteras experiments.
Dates:
February 16, 1928
The Yellow Fever Situation in Cienfuegos
,New York Herald, August 16, 1907
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 95
Identifier: N2895006
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 16, 1907
The Zeal and Efficiency Shown by Our Medical Officers
,The Havana Daily Telegraph, August 21, 1907
Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 95
Identifier: N2895008
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 21, 1907
Therapeutic Treatment of Yellow Fever
,Annual Report of the Marine-Hospital Service, by Henry Downes Geddings, 1894
Item — Box 18: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 12
Identifier: 01812001
Scope and Contents
Geddings' discussion of the treatment of yellow fever includes baths, purgatives, coal-tar products, cocaine, carbonated beverages, perchloride of iron, ice, counter-irritation, tisane of orange leaves, enemas, and quinine. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]
Dates:
1894
Three Years Study of Sanitary Conditions in Peru, by Henry Hanson, circa 1922
Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 8
Identifier: 01008001
Scope and Contents
Hanson writes about the reason for coming to Peru, the conditions found on his arrival, and the difficulties encountered. He discusses the various diseases identified and the causes of the general sanitary problems. Hanson presents remedies for the present conditions and discusses the possibility of the public and the Peruvian government accepting foreign aide.
Dates:
circa 1922
To be Named in Honor of Dr. Lazear
, circa 1902
Item — Box 4: Series uva-lib:2221993, Folder: 17
Identifier: N0417003
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series I. Jesse W. Lazear consists of materials relating to Lazear that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1800 to 1956 with the bulk of the items dating from 1863 to 1943. Much of the series consists of the correspondence of Jesse W. Lazear and his wife Mabel H. Lazear. Jesse's correspondence dates from his time as a student at Johns Hopkins University to his death in 1900. Researchers can learn a great deal...
Dates:
circa 1902
To Fight Yellow Fever in Peru
, June 17, 1920
Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 21
Identifier: N0821001
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Series II. Henry Rose Carter consists of materials relating to Henry Rose Carter that Philip Showalter Hench collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1880 to 1932 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1883 to 1932. The series is particularly rich in materials that document Henry Rose Carter's professional activities in the last eleven years of his life (1914-1925). These materials include, but are not limited to the...
Dates:
June 17, 1920
To Give Credit Where It Is Due
,Baltimore American, July 6, 1912
Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 9
Identifier: N3009001
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:
July 6, 1912
Tomb of Carlos J. Finlay, Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba, circa 1940-1955
Item — Box 88: Series uva-lib:2230433, Folder: 61
Identifier: P8861001
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 1940-1955
Found in:
Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
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Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection
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Series IX. Photographs
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Photographs relating to Carlos J. Finlay; various scenes in Cuba; Philip Showalter Hench's family; and ceremonies honoring Philip Showalter Hench and members of the yellow fever experiments
Transcript from theCourt of Missing Heirsradio program, September 23, 1941
Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 43
Identifier: 03843024
Scope and Contents
This transcript focuses on the estate of Wallace Forbes and discusses the government pension due him and his heirs for his service as a volunteer in the Yellow Fever Commission experiments, in Cuba.
Dates:
September 23, 1941
Transcript of letter fragment from John H. Andrus, circa 1930
Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 41
Identifier: 03241004
Scope and Contents
Andrus answers questions about Ames and mentions the kindness of Lambert.
Dates:
circa 1930
Transcript of letter from Walter Reed to Simon Flexner, November 3, 1902
Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 39
Identifier: 02639001
Scope and Contents
Reed turns down an invitation to speak at Flexner's Pathological Society in Philadelphia.
Dates:
November 3, 1902
Transcript of Philip Showalter Hench's interview of Jefferson Randolph Kean, June 5, 1946
Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 9
Identifier: 06409004
Scope and Contents
Kean provides his recollections of the Yellow Fever Commission, in response to Hench's questions.
Dates:
June 5, 1946
Transcript of Philip Showalter Hench's interview with General Jefferson Randolph Kean, January 6, 1944
Item — Box 64: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 2
Identifier: 06402001
Scope and Contents
Hench questions Kean about the yellow fever experiments at Camp Lazear.
Dates:
January 6, 1944
Transcript of Philip Showalter Hench's interview with Jefferson Randolph Kean, May 8, 1941
Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 3
Identifier: 06303005
Scope and Contents
Hench's interview deals with myriad topics, including: Moran and Kissinger, locations of hospitals and living quarters, the X.Y. case, Kean's case of yellow fever, and the discovery that someone had removed all the papers from Reed's desk after his death.
Dates:
May 8, 1941