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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 263 Collections and/or Records:

English translation [from Spanish] of letter from [Luis Espinosa y G. Caceres] to [Philip Showalter Hench],  March 15, 1945

 Item — Box 40: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 55
Identifier: 04055005
Scope and Contents

This is a rough translation of [Espinosa's] letter, in which he apologizes to Hench for the misunderstanding regarding Espinosa's letter of January 10, 1945, in which Hench mistakenly believed that he (Hench) had been appointed Director of Panamerican Doctors (Director de la Division de Relaciones Medicas y Sanitarias Panamericanas) at the Finlay Institute. [Espinosa] expresses his hope that Hench will continue to work closely with scientists in Cuba.

Dates:  March 15, 1945
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

Excerpt fromA History of Applied Entomology,  1930

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 03250001
Scope and Contents

Howard discusses his work on mosquito theory.

Dates:  1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Copies of excerpts from<title render="italic">A History of Applied Entomology</title>

Excerpt fromA History of Applied Entomology,  1930

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 03250002
Scope and Contents

Howard discusses his work on mosquito theory.

Dates:  1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Copies of excerpts from<title render="italic">A History of Applied Entomology</title>

Excerpt fromA History of Applied Entomology,  1930

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 03250003
Scope and Contents

Howard discusses his work on mosquito theory.

Dates:  1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Copies of excerpts from<title render="italic">A History of Applied Entomology</title>

Excerpt fromA History of Applied Entomology,  1930

 Item — Box 32: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 50
Identifier: 03250004
Scope and Contents

Howard discusses his work on mosquito theory.

Dates:  1930
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Copies of excerpts from<title render="italic">A History of Applied Entomology</title>

Excerpt fromDr. Walter Reed,  1902

 Item — Box 26: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 55
Identifier: 02655001
Scope and Contents

This excerpt discusses Reed's medical work and gives a listing of each publication authored by Reed.

Dates:  1902
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Excerpts fromGeorge Miller Sternberg: A Biography, by Martha L. Sternberg,  1920

 Item — Box 30: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 56
Identifier: 03056001
Scope and Contents

This document includes excerpts from Sternberg's biography of her husband's involvement with tropical diseases, including yellow fever.

Dates:  1920
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Fever Chart for Manuel Casas,  August 22, 1908

 Item — Box 62: Series uva-lib:2229588, Folder: 28
Identifier: 06228003
Scope and Contents From the Series: 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:  August 22, 1908
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series VII. Truby-Kean-Hench / Letter from H.D. Thomason to Jefferson Randolph Kean with a fever chart for Manuel Casas

Fiebre Amarilla: Instrucciones Populares Para Evitar Su Transmision y Propagacion,  December 1907

 Item — Box 29: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 25
Identifier: 02925001
Scope and Contents

This pamphlet details preventative measures against yellow fever, especially the control of mosquitos.

Dates:  December 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Fragment of a statement regarding Walter Reed,  circa 1904

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 37
Identifier: 02737001
Scope and Contents

Kean states that Reed did not give up his life demonstrating the mosquito theory. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

Dates:  circa 1904
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed / Miscellaneous materials relating to the military career of Walter Reed

Hatching sheet, Coosa River, 1915, by the State Board of Health of Alabama, 1915

 Item — Box 7: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 64
Identifier: 00764113
Scope and Contents

This report details reproduction of mosquitoes along the Coosa River.

Dates: 1915
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

How the Army Yellow Fever Board Conducted its Experiments upon Human Beings,The University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin,  1903

 Item — Box 27: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 13
Identifier: 02713001
Scope and Contents

Stark presents a paper about the measures taken by Reed and his commission to prove it was the mosquito, and not fomites, that was responsible for the spread of yellow fever. Published in The University of Virginia Alumni Bulletin, vol. 3.

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

Impounded Waters,  circa 1920s

 Item — Box 10: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 2
Identifier: 01002026
Scope and Contents

This report gives proposed impounded water health regulations cover floating debris, vegetation, and fish stocking.

Dates:  circa 1920s
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

Impounded Waters, by Joseph Augustine LePrince, circa 1921

 Item — Box 9: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 24
Identifier: 00924010
Scope and Contents

LePrince describes mosquito breeding in impounded waters, suggesting necessary regulations to be implemented by State Boards of Health.

Dates: circa 1921
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Articles relating to malaria and impounded waters

Interview of John J. Moran by Philip Showalter Hench,  April 3, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 03532001
Scope and Contents

Hench questions Moran about the yellow fever experiments.

Dates:  April 3, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Materials relating to the Interview of John J. Moran by Philip Showalter Hench

Interview of John J. Moran by Philip Showalter Hench, April 3, 1940

 Item — Box 35: Series uva-lib:2225888, Folder: 32
Identifier: 03532007
Scope and Contents

Hench questions Moran about the yellow fever experiments.

Dates: April 3, 1940
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series IV. Philip Showalter Hench / Materials relating to the Interview of John J. Moran by Philip Showalter Hench

Issue ofThe Youth's Companion,  January 10, 1907

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 70
Identifier: N2870001
Scope and Contents

Includes Howard Atwood Kelley's article,The Lesson of Little Things: The Conquest of Yellow Fever.

Dates:  January 10, 1907
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed

Letter and report with appendixes from Oliver L. Pothier to Joseph H. White relating to the Rockefeller Foundation's investigation of the epidemic of Bucaramanga, Columbia,  August 20, 1923

 Item — Box 11: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 38
Identifier: 01138033
Scope and Contents

Pothier sends White his final report on the 1923 Yellow Fever Commission inspection tour of Colombia. He describes travel, meetings with government officials, and incidence of yellow fever and mosquitoes. A series of appended documents [two in Spanish] discuss preparations for the trip, the suspected epidemic in Bucaramanga, individual yellow fever cases, and further details of the tour.

Dates:  August 20, 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 fragment from [Henry Rose Carter] to [Laura Eugenia Hook Carter?],  circa 1900-1925

 Item — Box 13: Series uva-lib:2222441, Folder: 31
Identifier: 01331011
Scope and Contents

[Carter] writes about his travel plans and work.

Dates:  circa 1900-1925
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series II. Henry Rose Carter / Undated correspondence of Henry Rose Carter

Letter fragment from [s.n.] to [Howard A. Kelly?],  December 13, 1906

 Item — Box 28: Series uva-lib:2223908, Folder: 62
Identifier: 02862001
Scope and Contents

Convening of Medical Legislative Council delayed; unable to meet recipient [letter incomplete].

Dates:  December 13, 1906
Found in: Claude Moore Health Sciences Library / Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection / Series III. Walter Reed