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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...

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Peake's story on the work of Henry Rose Carter and William Gorgas in ridding Panama of yellow fever includes excerpts from Laura Armistead's Panama diary.

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,...

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,...

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,...

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This program is for a Washington and Jefferson College production of “Yellow Jack.”

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Jones writes to set the date for the dedication of Belroi.

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Jones informs Emilie Lawrence Reed of the date for the Belroi dedication

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Corbett compliments Hench on his speech during the unveiling of the Cornwell painting.

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Beveridge, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, requests a reprint of Kean's speech, which was given at the dedication of Walter Reed's birthplace.

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Carey details the 50th anniversary of the yellow fever experiments.

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Clarence Porter Jones, Secretary and Treasurer of the Walter Reed Memorial Commission, appeals for necessary funds to complete restoration of Walter Reed's birthplace.

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Lower thanks Emilie Reed for her promised gift of a cross and vases for the nearly completed chapel at Walter Reed Hospital.

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This program lists events and speakers for the dedication of Walter Reed's birthplace.

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This program includes photographs and text concerning the yellow fever experiments, and Hench's autographed notes.

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Welch is listed as having given a speech honoring Carroll. A bronze tablet memorializing Carroll was also unveiled.

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Hench makes a formal request to register the preparation of a book on the history of the conquest of yellow fever. He assures the Committee on Medical Education and Research at the Mayo Clinic that this work will not interfere with his research on rheumatic diseases nor his work on experimental jaundice.

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Hench lists questions he has for Kean.

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Questions of the Day

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This receipt lists the cost of the floral tributes for each organization represented at the Camp Lazear dedication ceremony.