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Found in 71 Collections and/or Records:

Series VI. Alphabetical files, circa 1860-circa 1966, bulk: bulk 1940-1956

 Series — Box 58-61: Series uva-lib:2229293
Identifier: uva-lib:2229293
Scope and Contents 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: circa 1860-circa 1966; Majority of material found within 1940-1956

Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench, circa 1879-circa 1960, bulk: bulk 1900-1954

 Series — Box 62-65: Series uva-lib:2229588
Identifier: uva-lib:2229588
Scope and Contents 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 1879-circa 1960; Majority of material found within 1900-1954

Series VIII. Miscellany, circa 1849-1982, bulk: bulk 1885-1974

 Series — Box 66-75, 154: Series uva-lib:2230196
Identifier: uva-lib:2230196
Scope and Contents Series VIII. Miscellany consists of oversize and miscellaneous materials in the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed yellow fever collection that were, for various reasons, not included in any of the other series in the collection. Items in this series date from around 1849 to 1982 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1885 to 1974. These materials include, but are not limited to the following: informed...
Dates: circa 1849-1982; Majority of material found within 1885-1974

Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions, circa 1901-circa 1966

 Series — Box 137-138: Series uva-lib:2231435
Identifier: uva-lib:2231435
Scope and Contents Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1901 to around 1966. These materials were originally a part of the Philip S. Hench papers in the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library, but they were transferred to the University of Virginia in 1991. These...
Dates: circa 1901-circa 1966

Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions, circa 1860-1965, bulk: bulk 1898-1965

 Series — Box 141-150: Series uva-lib:2231610
Identifier: uva-lib:2231610
Scope and Contents Series XIV. P. Kahler Hench additions consists of original and photocopied materials that Philip Showalter Hench's son, P. Kahler Hench, donated to the University of Virginia in 1988 and 1989. Items in the series date from around 1860 to 1965 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1898 to 1965. Most of these items were collected or created by Philip Showalter Hench while researching the yellow fever experiments. These items include the following: ...
Dates: circa 1860-1965; Majority of material found within 1898-1965

Short biographical sketches of Henry Rose Carter, 1924

 File — Box 15: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 9
Identifier: uva-lib:2223903
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: 1924

The Story of John Moran ...,  circa 1937

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 22
Identifier: 03422002
Scope and Contents

Moran's autobiography gives a detailed account of the yellow fever experiments in which he took part.

Dates:  circa 1937

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

Walter Reed's Human Guinea Pigs (By One of Them),  circa 1930-1940

 Item — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: 03712001
Scope and Contents

This is a series of partial manuscripts detailing the yellow fever experiments. Topics include the Yellow Fever Roll of Honor, Moran's role in the experiments, the controversy concerning Reed's and Finlay's contributions to the conquest of yellow fever, and Moran's experiences at the University of Virginia.

Dates:  circa 1930-1940

Walter Reed's Human Guinea Pigs (By One of Them)with note,  circa 1930-1940

 File — Box 37: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 12
Identifier: uva-lib:2226500
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench primarily consists of materials that Hench created or collected while researching the U.S. Army Yellow Fever Commission. Items in this series date from around 1850 to around 1865 with the bulk of the items dating from 1937 to 1960. Researchers who are studying the yellow fever experiments will be particularly interested in the materials (e.g. interviews, autobiographies) that document first-hand accounts of the events surrounding the experiments. Other...
Dates:  circa 1930-1940

Yellow fever bibliography and notes concerning the writing of a book on the yellow fever experiments, by Philip Showalter Hench, circa 1940-1966

 File — Box 137: Series uva-lib:2231435, Folder: 43
Identifier: uva-lib:2231478
Scope and Contents From the Series: Series XII. Houston Academy of Medicine/Texas Medical Center additions consists of materials that Philip Showalter Hench created or collected while researching the yellow fever experiments. Items in this series date from around 1901 to around 1966. These materials were originally a part of the Philip S. Hench papers in the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library, but they were transferred to the University of Virginia in 1991. These...
Dates: circa 1940-1966