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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
historical.library@yale.edu
203-737-1192
https://library.medicine.yale.edu/historical
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Medical college catalogs, introductory and valedictory addresses, and ephemera collection, 1807-1965

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The collection contains published annual catalogs of American medical colleges, introductory addresses given by physicians at the beginning of the school year or at the beginning of specific courses, valedictory addresses given by prominent physicians at graduation ceremonies, and various ephemera. Some irregular medical institutions are represented, including homeopathic, eclectic, and osteopathic schools and some schools of dentistry. Catalogues and addresses of the Medical Institution of Yale College have been individually cataloged and few appear in this collection. Also many addresses have been individually cataloged and do not appear here.
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Tully Family Papers, 1667-1915

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William Tully (1785-1859) was professor of materia medica and therapeutics at the Medical Institution of Yale College from 1824 to 1842. The collection contains a small amount of correspondence by or to Tully and limited material on Tully's medical career. One subseries concerns settling the estate of William Tully and finding funds to support his daughters Sarah and Elizabeth. The collection contains genealogies, original documents of the Tully family in Connecticut, and also documents related to ancestors of Tully's wife, Mary Potter Tully, particularly her father, the Rev. Elam Potter, and her stepfather, the Rev. Nehemiah Prudden. Photographs include daguerrotypes of Tully's children.
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Stephen E. Malawista papers, 1957-2013

82 boxes
Stephen E. Malawista, M.D, was a member of the Department of Internal Medicine and Chair of the Section of Rheumatology at Yale. His research focused on the mechanisms of inflammation relevant to rheumatology. He was best known as the co-discoverer of Lyme disease. His papers include correspondence, section annual reports, correspondence and drafts on papers submitted for publication, grants and contracts, popular material on Lyme disease, presentations, published papers, and research notes.
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The Bert Hansen collection of medicine and public health in popular graphic art, 1850-2010

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The collection comprises material collected by medical historian Bert Hansen to document depictions of medicine and public health presented to the general population of the United States from the mid-19th through early 21st centuries. Contents of the collection were produced between 1850 and 2010 and include complete and partial issues of periodical publications, prints, posters, film publicity materials, product brochures and promotional materials, calendars, and photocopies of related materials not included in the collection.
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"--!-- ", 1884 November 19- Box 9, Folder 17

Puck (16:402), cover. By Gillam, shows tattooed man butt up in the water next to a dog (?) also butt up, labelled "We claim everything, Me & Jack," calling from a soap campaign; bar is labelled "hurrah soap--to remove tattoo." This cover refers back to front cover of July 2, 1884, "Me and Jack," showing Blaine and a dog sitting on a rotting plank. A later cover picks up image again: a Wet dog on plank, front cover (page 225 of Vol. 17), on June 10, 1885. Hansen database #186.

  1. Early Publications, 1850-1927
  2. Puck, 1877-1913
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G. D. Hsiung papers, 1950-2006

56 boxes
G. D. (Edith) Hsiung was head of the Virology Laboratory at the Veterans Administration Medical Center, founder and director of the national Viral Reference Laboratory for the VA, and professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Yale. The collection includes correspondence, descriptions of her courses and special workshops, presentations, scrapbooks, photographs, reprints of articles, laboratory notebooks, and research manuscripts.
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Society of Physiological Neurology Papers, 1937-1943

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The Society of Physiological Neurology was was founded in 1937 as an outgrowth of the American Neurological Association. It held annual meetings from 1938 to 1942. The collection appears to be the archives of the Society and contains correspondence with members and others by the successive chairmen of the annual meeting committees; membership lists; drafts of programs; and attendance records.
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Ira V. Hiscock collection, 1914-1987, bulk 1930-1973

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The collection contains public health surveys by Hiscock and others; some correspondence; materials related to Hiscock's activities in Yale-in-China and the World Health Assembly; materials on Hiscock's awards; photographs and memorabilia on the dedication of the Ira V. Hiscock Library; and memorabilia that were to be assembled in scrapbooks, especially from the period after his retirement.
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Howard M. Spiro Papers, 1918-2012, bulk 1960-2012

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Howard Spiro was head of the Gastroenterology Unit or Section of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale from 1955 until his retirement in 1999. He was co-founder and first Director of the Program for Humanities in Medicine. The collection contains typescripts of Spiro's talks and addresses; typescripts of essays, mostly related to issues in humanities in medicine; a manuscript autobiography; correspondence related to Yale; reprints of Spiros's articles, columns, and book reviews; and ten original medical illustrations related to gastroenterology that Spiro had collected.
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Sheet music collection on medical themes, 1762-1989, bulk 1890-1940

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Sheet music on medical themes including songs and piano compositions about medical providers, ailments, remedies, health for children, and advertisements for medical products. Much of the music was performed in music halls or as part of musicals, or later, performed on radio, television, and on records.
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98.6 Box 1

Words by Tony Powers, music by George Fischoff. New York: Screen Gems - Columbia Music, Inc., c. 1966. "Recorded by Keith on Mercury Records."

  1. Individual songs in English by title

(A. A. Shafer) The Elderberry Rag

Words by A. A. Shafer, music by Geo. F. Root (Tune - Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!) The song advertises A. A. Shafer's Pure Elderberry Wine, which possesses "diuretic and diaphoretic properties, an alterative, useful in rheumatism and other chronic diseases." "Made and guaranteed by A. A. Shafer, New Paltz, N.Y. Published after 1906 because reference is made to the Pure Food and Drug Act.

  1. Music advertising a product or practitioner
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Medical trade card collection, 1872-1958, bulk 1885-1910

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This collection contains about a thousand chromolithograph advertising trade cards related to health, nutrition, and remedies, published from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century. The majority of the trade cards were produced by the Liebig Extract of Meat Company, Antwerp, Brussels, founded in 1865. Other trade cards in the collection were distributed mostly by American patent medicine manufacturers.
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A Box 5, Folder 2

7 cards for Auburn Drug and Chemical Company, Auburn, Maine ("Kilbourne's Pain Stop"); Avery Lactate Co., Boston ("Lactart"); Alexander Medicine Co., New York; Dr. Addison's ("Cough Balsam," "Condition Powder"); and Dr. E. C. Abbey, Buffalo, N.Y. (book on the sexual system, and "Cutavaco," a patent medicine).

  1. Other medical trade cards

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