Diseases

Letter from Philip Showalter Hench to Thomas J. Michie, February 27, 1942

Item — Box 39: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 8

Identifier: 03908061

Scope and Contents

Hench describes to Michie the role played by Major R.E. Lee Michie in the yellow fever experiments, and suggests that he contact Kean and the War Department for more information.

Dates: February 27, 1942

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 Philip Showalter Hench to Vernon McKenzie, September 22, 1956

Item — Box 49: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 11

Identifier: 04911015

Scope and Contents

Hench inquires if the army has any information about Hanberry's desertion from the army.

Dates: September 22, 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 Philip Showalter Hench to Walter M. Simpson, June 18, 1941

Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17

Identifier: 03817017

Scope and Contents

Hench sends Simpson a photograph from the Cornwell painting unveiling and comments on Kissinger's condition after his stroke. He is not sure that the medical journal publishers are as interested in his yellow fever speech as Simpson believes them to be.

Dates: June 18, 1941

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 Philip Showalter Hench to Walter M. Simpson, June 23, 1941

Item — Box 38: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 17

Identifier: 03817021

Scope and Contents

Hench informs Simpson about Kissinger's failing health.

Dates: June 23, 1941

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 Philippe Caldas, July 31, 1901

Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 18

Identifier: 02518026

Scope and Contents

Caldas describes the process to obtain serum and vaccine for yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates: July 31, 1901

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters and military orders relating to Philippi Caldas and his yellow fever serus

Letter from Philippe Caldas to Valery Havard, August 29, 1901

Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 18

Identifier: 02518023

Scope and Contents

Caldas, in defense of his vaccine, outlines reasons for his diagnosis of septic fever rather than yellow fever for the volunteers who became sick after being infected with yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates: August 29, 1901

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Letters and military orders relating to Philippi Caldas and his yellow fever serus

Letter from Pride Thomas to Howard A. Kelly, March 6, 1905

Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 53

Identifier: 02753001

Scope and Contents

Thomas writes about a yellow fever epidemic in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1862.

Dates: March 6, 1905

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter from Ralph Cooper Hutchison to John J. Moran, September 12, 1940

Item — Box 36: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 11

Identifier: 03611001

Scope and Contents

Hutchison invites Moran to the Lazear memorial dedication and offers to pay his expenses.

Dates: September 12, 1940

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Letter from Ralph Cooper Hutchison to John J. Moran

Letter from R.C. Derivaux to Henry Rose Carter, April 12, 1922

Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 29

Identifier: 00929010

Scope and Contents

Derivaux tells Carter of his activities over the past three years. He is now in private practice and teaching at Vanderbilt Medical School.

Dates: April 12, 1922

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from R.H. Creel to Henry Rose Carter, December 24, 1924

Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 17

Identifier: 01217030

Scope and Contents

Creel writes that he has never encountered an epidemic of plague on board ship.

Dates: December 24, 1924

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Richard Messer to Henry Rose Carter, May 31, 1921

Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 7

Identifier: 00907039

Scope and Contents

Messer sends Carter a report of the malaria control committee, which Gage will present at the Boston meeting.

Dates: May 31, 1921

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Richard Messer to Henry Rose Carter, June 21, 1921

Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 12

Identifier: 00912003

Scope and Contents

Messer thanks Carter for his comments on Virginia malaria control work.

Dates: June 21, 1921

Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter from Robert M. O'Reilly to the Adjutant General, November 1, 1902

Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 28

Identifier: 02628009

Scope and Contents

O'Reilly requests that Reed be ordered to Fisher's Island, New York, to investigate an outbreak of typhoid fever among the troops. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates: November 1, 1902