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Found in 827 Collections and/or Records:

Letter to Dear Doctor Ferrell, January 10, 1922

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 25
Identifier: 00925018
Scope and Contents

The firm of Henry Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton informs Carter about its pricing policies for reprints of medical journals.

Dates: January 10, 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 to the Directeur General du Bureau Sanitaire International de la Fondation Rockefeller,  June 6, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 24
Identifier: 01124035
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The writer thanks the Director for the serum shipments already received and requests more to be sent to him in Africa.

Dates:  June 6, 1923
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 to Wenceslao Pareja, May 18, 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 12
Identifier: 00912009
Scope and Contents

The writer discusses the yellow fever situation and the economic ramifications of quarantines. Enclosed is a copy of a telegram to Hanson.

Dates: May 18, 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 to William Crawford Gorgas, May 22, 1917

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 11
Identifier: 00811031
Scope and Contents

The writer is interested in continuing yellow fever work, but cannot be of assistance at the moment.

Dates: May 22, 1917
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

Life and Letters of Dr. Walter Reed, by Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed,  circa 1930-1941

 Item — Box 49: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 34
Identifier: 04934050
Scope and Contents

This manuscript discusses Walter Reed's yellow fever experiments in Cuba and provides letters written by Reed.

Dates:  circa 1930-1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Drafts ofLife and Letters of Walter Reed, by Blossom [Emilie M.] Reed with related correspondence

List of microfilm data on Columbia Barracks Post Hospital in the National Archives selected by Philip Showalter Hench,  July 1941

 Item — Box 63: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 8
Identifier: 06308001
Scope and Contents

This list includes sanitary reports, inspection reports and disease reports. Furthermore, there are numerous documents listed concerning Reed.

Dates:  July 1941
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / List of sources on microfilm selected from the National Archives by Philip Showalter for his yellow fever research with photographs, notes, and maps showing the site of Camp Lazear and the Columbia Barracks

List of publications by Walter Reed from 1894 to 1902,  circa 1903

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02718001
Scope and Contents

The list of Reed's publications includes articles on Trikresol, typhoid fever, variola, bacillus icteroides and bacillus cholerae suis, and yellow fever.

Dates:  circa 1903
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine: Yellow Fever Expedition,The British Medical Journal, by Herbert E. Durham and Walter Myers,  September 8, 1900

 Item — Box 21: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 18
Identifier: 02118001
Scope and Contents

Durham and Myers discuss the investigation of yellow fever by the American commission in Cuba and the perplexing nature of the disease.

Dates:  September 8, 1900
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Los Sintomas de la Epidemia de Bucaramanga. Detallado Informe de los Medicos. La Peste de Bucaramanga,  March 9, 1923

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 22
Identifier: 01022014
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These excerpts - from the "Diario del Comercio" - describe a Colombian fever epidemic and advise preventive measures.

Dates:  March 9, 1923
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

Manuscript fragment:My Date with Walter Reed and Yellow Jack, by John J. Moran,  circa 1940-1960

 Item — Box 60: Series uva-lib:2229293, Folder: 13
Identifier: 06013001
Scope and Contents

This partial manuscript of Moran's autobiography describes his early life, military career, service as a sanitary inspector under Gorgas in Panama, marriage, and business ventures. He discusses his relationship with Hench and their search for the actual site of Camp Lazear, as well as the difficulties stemming from the Reed-Finlay controversy. The section of the draft covering the yellow fever experiments is missing.

Dates:  circa 1940-1960
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series VI. Alphabetical files / Autobiographical manuscripts written by John J. Moran

Memoirs of a Human Guinea Pig,  circa 1901-1950

 Item — Box 25: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 71
Identifier: 02571001
Scope and Contents

This is Moran's account of his experience with the Yellow Fever Commission as a human test subject.

Dates:  circa 1901-1950
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Memoranda of Physical Survey of Portions of the Site to be Covered by the Water Impounded at Badin, North Carolina,  circa 1916

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 27
Identifier: 01327001
Scope and Contents

Carter and LePrince describe a planned pond and the mosquito control measures that should be undertaken in constructing and maintaining it.

Dates:  circa 1916
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Memorandum by A.S. Dabney for Jefferson Randolph Kean,  April 15, 1938

 Item — Box 34: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 63
Identifier: 03463001
Scope and Contents

Dabney provides a chronology of Walter Reed's military service; from June 26, 1875 to April 3, 1900.

Dates:  April 15, 1938
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench

Memorandum by [Henry Rose Carter],  June 16, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 9
Identifier: 01109032
Scope and Contents

[Carter] writes corrections for another person's manuscript concerning yellow fever and dengue.

Dates:  June 16, 1923
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

Memorandum by Henry Rose Carter,  circa 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 15
Identifier: 01115002
Scope and Contents

Carter discusses the seasonal presence and absence of mosquitoes, and the control of their breeding through the use of vegetation control, fish stocking, and maintenance of water level in ponds.

Dates:  circa 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 Lunsford D. Fricks

Memorandum from C.J. Asplund to John J. Moran,  October 15, 1918

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 46
Identifier: 03046009
Scope and Contents

Moran is nominated for overseas duty.

Dates:  October 15, 1918
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Military records relating to John J. Moran

Memorandum from Henry Rose Carter,  July 31, 1924

 Item — Box 12: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 5
Identifier: 01205001
Scope and Contents

Carter comments on Muhlens' paper about regional variations in the mosquito's relation to the malaria parasite.

Dates:  July 31, 1924
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Memorandum from Henry Rose Carter, May 22, 1917

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 11
Identifier: 00811032
Scope and Contents

Carter discusses a possibly mis-diagnosed case of yellow fever.

Dates: May 22, 1917
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

Memorandum from Henry Rose Carter and Joseph A. LePrince, February 15, 1916

 Item — Box 8: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 6
Identifier: 00806001
Scope and Contents

Carter and LePrince discuss a mosquito control project and the incidence of malaria to be expected.

Dates: February 15, 1916
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter

Memorandum from Henry Rose Carter to James A. Haynes, February 20, 1915

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 61
Identifier: 00761001
Scope and Contents

Carter discusses his role in the prevention of yellow fever and malaria in South Carolina.

Dates: February 20, 1915
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter