RGPPM. Personal Papers and Manuscript Collections (PPM)

Scope and Contents The May G. Wilson Papers consists of four folders. There is no biographical information included within the collection. Rather, the collection highlights Dr. Wilson’s medical research and publications, with its four folders comprised of her research data and reprints of her articles.The first folder of the collection contains documentation regarding Dr. Wilson’s experiments on lymphocyte response to antigens and the data collected during these experiments. The next two folders...

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This small collection only provides a glimpse of Dr. Cattell's work at Cornell University Medical College. The collection has been organized into three series: Correspondence (1909-1981), Lectures and Research Notes (1930-1958), and Reprints (1915-1962). The bulk dates are 1930-1958.

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Medical trade cards and other advertisements promoting medical services and products were designed to directly connect patent medicine manufacturers to the consumer public. The Medical Trade Cards and Advertisements Collection contains 197 colorful trade cards, three business cards, three bi-fold brochures, one accordion brochure, and two booklets promoting medical services and products for a variety of different products, companies, physicians, and locations.

Scope and Contents This collection contains materials that Dr. Philip Reichert, an avid historian of the history of medicine and the American College of Cardiology, collected. Papers are divided into thirteen series: Philip Reichert Correspondence (1924-1985), Philip Reichert Reprints (1922-1984), Philip Reichert Student Notebooks (1917-1923), Philip Reichert Miscellaneous (1917-1985), American College of Cardiology (1949-1980), Miscellaneous Organizations (1924-1984), Abstracts and Studies (1941-1947),...

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The Pliny Earle Papers contains correspondence, 1840-1880, to Dr. Earle from heads of other insane asylums regarding retaining copies of annual reports and by laws, advice on patient cases, hospital design and treatments and recommendations for hiring of personnel. The collection also includes a description of Dr. Earle's visit to Lafayette's grave in France and an estate inventory of Isaac Oakley's estate dated 1789.