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University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library

Claude Moore Health Sciences Library
University of Virginia Health System
P.O. Box 800722
1350 Jefferson Park Avenue
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908
Primary Collecting Areas:
History of the University of Virginia Health System, Health Sciences in Virginia and the U.S. South, Anatomy, Yellow Fever, and Public Health
Description:
The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library is home to the University of Virginia's collection of rare and unique resources documenting the history of the health sciences.
POC: Amanda Greenwood
Phone: (434) 924-0052
Phone: (434) 982-0576
Phone: (434) 924-5444
Start Over Repository University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library Subjects Tropical medicine

Letter from James Carroll to Howard A. Kelly June 23, 1906 7 pages Box 28, Folder 35

Carroll comments on Kelly's manuscript. He corrects errors of fact, and objects to the attention given Reed to the detriment of himself, Lazear, and the rest of the Yellow Fever Commission.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936

Letter from James Carroll to Howard A. Kelly September 10, 1906 4 pages Box 28, Folder 43

Carroll appeals to Kelly to consider Carroll's own statement of the facts concerning the responsibilities and actions of the Yellow Fever Board members. Carroll objects to Kean's version of the events and to Kelly's assertions in his book.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936

Letter from James Carroll to Robert M. O'Reilly August 29, 1906 4 pages Box 28, Folder 42

Carroll writes about the Yellow Fever Board's determination to investigate the mosquito theory. Carroll claims that he first proposed Board inoculate themselves. Included is an apparent draft, with autograph notations, and a final copy of the same letter.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series III. Walter Reed1806-circa 1955 bulk 1874-1936

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Albert E. Truby April 10, 1941 10 pages Box 63, Folder 2

In evaluating the Reed versus Finlay debate, Kean states that Reed converted a discredited hypothesis into an established doctrine.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series VII. Truby-Kean-Henchcirca 1879-circa 1960 bulk 1900-1954
  4. Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter HenchMarch 7, 1941

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Albert E. Truby August 9, 1942 4 pages Box 63, Folder 10

Kean writes that he has started his memoir. In a postscript, Kean explains Gorgas was excluded from the yellow fever painting because Gorgas did not initially believe in the mosquito theory.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series VII. Truby-Kean-Henchcirca 1879-circa 1960 bulk 1900-1954
  4. Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter Hench with related newspaper clippings1942

Letter from Jefferson Randolph Kean to Albert E. Truby circa October 2, 1941 2 pages Box 63, Folder 6

Kean informs Hench that Truby's book will be published by the S.G.O. He also discusses various people who were or were not in Cuba during the yellow fever experiments.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series VII. Truby-Kean-Henchcirca 1879-circa 1960 bulk 1900-1954
  4. Correspondence of Albert E. Truby, Jefferson Randolph Kean, and Philip Showalter HenchAugust 1941-October 1941

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