“Indifference to Penicillin” (RESTRICTED-PHI), 1953

This series contains Dr. Berntsen’s published and unpublished writings and presentation materials. Included in this series are academic and scholarly article drafts and published pieces, clinical and autopsy summaries, laboratory work sheets, and research reports. In Box 4, the first box of this series, is a graded copy of Dr. Berntsen’s undergraduate thesis for the University of California, Berkeley titled “Early History of Medicine.” In addition are several progress reports and experiment write-ups dating from 1951 through 1956 (though the majority date from 1953) detailing research conducted by Dr. Berntsen during his postdoctorate fellowship at Cornell University Medical College. Box 5, the second box of the series, contains several folders on Group A streptococci (continued from the previous box) and corticosteroids. Box 5 also contains reprints of Dr. Berntsen’s published articles as well as drafts of published and unpublished articles and reports covering such subjects as human rabies, staphylococcal infections, prostate cancer, the treatment of fevers, bacterial pneumonia, antimicrobial therapy, and arthritis, to name a few. Box 6, the third and final box of Series 4, contains a spiral bound copy of “A History of Medical Care in New York City,” along with individual chapter drafts. Box 6 also includes a folder comprised of newspaper clippings regarding the 1960 annual meeting of the American College of Physicians held in San Francisco as well as Dr. Berntsen’s draft of the talk he gave to The Century Association on May 13, 1968 entitled “On Taste.”