Collections : [University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library]

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

Laboratory Findings[for yellow fever case in West Africa], by Hideyo Noguchi May 24, 1923 1 page Box 10, Folder 21

Noguchi discusses the pathological reports of a possible yellow fever case in Lagos, Nigeria.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series II. Henry Rose Cartercirca 1880-1932 bulk 1883-1932
  4. Correspondence of Henry Rose CarterFebruary 1923

Lady Watson, N. H. Swellengrebel, H. E. Shortt, Dr. Hackett, and Joseph A. LePrince at the Fourth International Congress on Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Washington, D.C. May 1948 1 page Box 88, Folder 11

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series IX. Photographscirca 1846-circa 1966 circa 1870-circa 1960
  4. Photographs relating to Carlos J. Finlay; various scenes in Cuba; Philip Showalter Hench's family; and ceremonies honoring Philip Showalter Hench and members of the yellow fever experiments1900-1960

Lecture on the Prophylaxis of Yellow Fever, by [Henry Rose Carter] circa 1922 17 pages Box 10, Folder 6

[Carter] discusses the prevention of yellow fever, including past experiments involving control of the human host vs. control of mosquitoes.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series II. Henry Rose Cartercirca 1880-1932 bulk 1883-1932

Lecture:Sanitation Work in Cuba, by Jefferson Randolph Kean 1910 18 pages Box 62, Folder 42

Kean details the methods the Sanitary Inspectors used in Cuba to combat yellow fever. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

  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. Lectures on sanitation in Cuba by Jefferson Randolph Kean1912

Lecture:Sanitation Work in Cuba, by Jefferson Randolph Kean May 23, 1912 17 pages Box 62, Folder 42

Kean discusses the sanitation efforts used to prevent yellow fever in Cuba from 1906 to 1909. [Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration]

  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. Lectures on sanitation in Cuba by Jefferson Randolph Kean1912

Letter and report with appendixes from Oliver L. Pothier to Joseph H. White relating to the Rockefeller Foundation's investigation of the epidemic of Bucaramanga, Columbia August 20, 1923 25 pages Box 11, Folder 38

Pothier sends White his final report on the 1923 Yellow Fever Commission inspection tour of Colombia. He describes travel, meetings with government officials, and incidence of yellow fever and mosquitoes. A series of appended documents [two in Spanish] discuss preparations for the trip, the suspected epidemic in Bucaramanga, individual yellow fever cases, and further details of the tour.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series II. Henry Rose Cartercirca 1880-1932 bulk 1883-1932
  4. Correspondence of Henry Rose CarterJanuary 1924

Letter fragment from E.W. MitchelApril 30, 1921 1 page Box 9, Folder 7

Mitchel complains about his problems with the Peruvian government. He encloses a copy of a letter from M.L. Vega regarding his situation.

  1. University of Virginia, Health Sciences Library
  2. Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collectioncirca 1800-circa 1998 bulk 1863-1974
  3. Series II. Henry Rose Cartercirca 1880-1932 bulk 1883-1932
  4. Correspondence of Henry Rose CarterApril 1921-May 1921

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