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Yale University -Medical Historical Library

Yale University -Medical Historical Library

333 Cedar St (inside the Medical Library in the Yale School of Medicine)
New Haven, CT 06510
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203-737-1192
https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical
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Benjamin Lincoln Collection, 1816-1944, bulk 1819-1896

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Benjamin Lincoln, physician, anatomist, and medical educator, taught anatomy and dissection at the University of Vermont. Papers include family correspondence, two journals of travel to New Orleans and to New Brunswick, circulars, publications in the Burlington Sentinel, ephemera, and photographs, letters, pamphlets, and ephmera by or related to members of the Lincoln family.
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Benjamin Lincoln Collection, 1816-1944, bulk 1819-1896 1 Linear Foot

Lincoln, Benjamin, 1802-1835
Benjamin Lincoln, physician, anatomist, and medical educator, taught anatomy and dissection at the University of Vermont. Papers include family correspondence, two journals of travel to New Orleans and to New Brunswick, circulars, publications in the Burlington Sentinel, ephemera, and photographs, letters, pamphlets, and ephmera by or related to members of the Lincoln family.
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    James Augustine Haran papers, 1890-1937

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    The papers include degrees from Trinity College, Dublin; certificates of hospital training; Haran's appointment as Medical Officer in the East Africa Protectorate; various reports on the plague in Nairobi, Kisumu, Mombasa, and the Gold Coast; his work during the war as Deputy Principal Medical Officer of the East African Protectorate; and other reports and correspondence. Of note are a map of Kisumu showing plague areas, and a broadside on the plague in the Gold Coast. The collection also contains a manuscript on St. Patrick written in 1937.
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    Ashley W. Oughterson collection, 1943-1959

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    The collection includes a small amount of correspondence; a notebook including Oughterson's account of his travel to and first days in Japan in 1945; a form for examining those exposed to the atomic bomb; clippings and articles about Oughterson; obituaries including a lengthy memoir published separately by John F. Fulton and Eugene Davidson; photographs; and articles on military medicine and the atomic and H-bomb collected by Oughterson.
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    Article by Kenneth W. Thomson, "Dermatomycosis, Ulceration, and Gangrene," with a paragraph inscription to Oughterson, 1945 January 1 Box 1, Folder 11

    The full title is "Studies on the Relationship of Dermatomycosis to Ulceration and Gangrene of the Extremities," Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 16[6] (July 1944): 665-754. Thomson, a member of the Department of Surgery at Yale, writes "This is the legacy you left me," and wishes Oughterson good luck on going to Japan (see folder 2).

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      Harry Gideon Wells papers, 1894-1943

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      Harry Gideon Wells, pathologist and immunologist, was born July 21, 1875 in New Haven, Connecticut and attended Hillhouse High School. He graduated from Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University, in 1895. He was an authority on the chemical aspects of pathology and immunology. Collection materials include his autobiography, student notebooks, drafts and published writings, reunion books, and obituaries.
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      Article drafts, 1930- Box 1, Folder 5

      Notebook containing drafts of two articles, one on general observations on cancer and the other on arteriosclerosis.

      1. Manuscripts, 1894-1930

      Berlin notebook, 1905- Box 1, Folder 4

      Handwritten research notebook (Tagebuch) from the University of Berlin, "Hydrolysis of Horse Hair, Jan-July, 1905. under Dr. E. Abderhalden," on his research abroad with Emil Abederhalden, 1877-1950, 283 pp.

      1. Manuscripts, 1894-1930
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      Iser Steiman papers, 1943-1975, bulk 1943-1960

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      The papers consist primarily of letters between Iser Steiman and John F. Fulton from 1943 to Fulton's death in 1960. Both sides of the correspondence are available as Steiman kept copies of his own letters. Other correspondents include Madeline Stanton, Harriet Thomson, and Wiliam C. Gibson. Topics include avaiation medicine; Steiman's translations of Soviet Russian works on military medicine; and history of medicine. Also part of the collection is a copy of a typewritten autobiography by Steinman which traces his career up to his arrival at Yale in 1944.
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      Edward Clark Streeter collection, 1921-1948

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      Edward Clark Streeter, 1874-1947, was a graduate of Yale College in 1898 who practiced medicine in Chicago in the early part of his career. After his move to Boston in 1907, he became a book collector, a historian of medicine, and a friend and collaborator of Harvey Cushing on historical projects. When he moved to Stonington, Connecticut in 1928, he was appointed from 1939 to 1933 visiting professor of history of medicine at Yale. In 1941, he donated his collection of weights and measures and pharmaceutical objects to the Historical Library part of the new Yale Medical Library. He served as curator of these collections until his death in 1947. The Edward Clark Streeter collection contains correspondence with Harvey Cushing from Cushing's Boston period, and with John F. Fulton and Madeline Stanton representing the Historical Library, as well as biographical material collected by Stanton and Elizabeth Thomson for John Fulton after Streeter's death.
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      George Alder Blumer correspondence, 1886-1951, bulk 1886-1896

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      These letters to George Alder Blumer are mainly about the American Medico-Psychological Association and the American Journal of Insanity, edited by Blumer. Several of the writers were, like Blumer, administrators of psychiatric hospitals in the United States and abroad.
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      Robert Bogdan Disability Collection, 1820-2000, 1900-1940

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      The collection contains real photo postcards, commercial postcards, photographs, pamphlets and ephemera related to people with disabilities, mostly from the United States, collected by Professor Robert Bogdan, a pioneer in the teaching of disability studies.
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      Book 10: Cabinet Photos, 1870s-1920s Volume 10

      The cabinet card format was used by professional photographers for portraiture from the 1870s to the 1920s. It is larger than the similar carte de visite. These photographs are of people with a variety of physical disabilities. The last three cabinet cards in this volume -- Alfred Pilgrim, Uncle Frank Jeffrey's family, and an unnamed African American -- were purchased by the Historical Library in 2018 and added.

        Book 11: Larger Format Photographs, 1880s-1973 Volume 11

        Photographs up to 8 x 10 on previously noted topics. There are also some publicity photographs from popular motion pictures. The volume ends with twelve stereoscopic photographs.

          Book 12: Pamphlets, 1820s-1997 Volume 12

          Pamphlets, mostly published by organizations helping the disabled. There are also some biographical accounts of individuals. The earliest is Happy Poverty: An Authentic History of Blind Ellen published in the 1820s by the American Tract Society.

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            Ronald H. Fishbein collection on the Nathan Smith family, 1830-2005

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            The collection contains materials collected by Ronald H. Fishbein (1931-2015) related to Nathan Smith (1762-1829) and his family. Nathan Smith was a physician, teacher, and author, who founded the Dartmouth Medical School and co-founded the Yale School of Medicine. Materials in the collection include family history manuscripts, newspaper clippings, photographs, correspondence with Nathan Smith authors and biographers, and a typescript of an article by Fishbein.
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            Edward Roth medical school notes and medical practice case books, 1878-1893

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            Edward Roth was a graduate of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in New York city in 1880 after the required attendance of two years. The collection consists of ten volumes, the first five of which are Roth's notes on medical school lectures and clinics from 1878-1880. The remaining five include four volumes documenting his clinical practice in New Haven, 1891-1893, and one volume with a few entries on practice in Massachusetts in late 1893.
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            Case Book, New Haven, 1891-1893 Volume 6

            Roth wrote on the title page of this volume: "Dr. Roths Case Book "Y" New Haven Conn Oct 19th. 1891." There are two patient entries per page. The arrangement is chronological. Patients are listed with their address in New Haven or the name of a surrounding town or neighborhood (for example, West Haven, Waterbury, Stony Creek [Branford]). The patient's condition is described in broad terms such as headache, buzzing in ears, pain in chest, cough, discharge from nose, rheumatism, arthritis, thick phlegm, etc. If the entries contain treatments, they are in a shorthand. There is an index of patient names in the back, and notes about the number of "renewals." Another index lists money owed, but again there are abbreviations.

            1. Series 2. Case Notes, New Haven, 1891-1893

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