Otis Historical Archives
National Museum of Health and Medicine
Armed Forces Institute of Pathology

Date of Records:  1860s-1970s

40 Cubic Feet, 62 Boxes

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Description

Files from AFIP's Registry of Noteworthy Research in Pathology, a collection of research materials and publications. Includes administrative records; books, reprints, and pamphlets; manuscripts, notes, photographs; microscope and lantern slides; paraffin blocks; charts and case histories; newspaper clippings, and biographical information. Records are arranged alphabetically by name. Artifacts are in Historical and Anatomical Collections. Cataloged in NUCMC.

The first folder under the pathologists’ names lists the materials that were received by the Registry, and, if one was assigned, shows the accession numbers assigned to each item. Where the item’s description was present in the records, it is listed below by its accession number and description as transcribed from the original folders, followed by any needed clarification. If an item was not in the records it was not included in the finding aid, regardless if it had been assigned an accession number; however, if an empty folder existed for a pathologist or an item, it is listed but noted as empty. Most accession numbers were shown to have been deaccessioned in 1973 and that is indicated in the pathologist’s list of items.

Unless noted otherwise, correspondence usually refers to communications about the Registry.

Box 1

See also Feldman, William H.

Administration

Finding aid

Original inventory, 1969-1970

RNWRP financial date (background material used for seeking financial support from UAREP, etc.)

Correspondence regarding maintenance of Registry material

General correspondence, memoranda, and other supporting paperwork, 1958-1964. Includes lists of researchers who will be included in the Registry

General correspondence, memoranda, and other supporting paperwork, 1965-1973. Includes lists of researchers who will be included in the Registry

Early AFIP Special Study Groups (from file cards; Mrs. Evans, May 1968)

Minutes of meetings of RNWRP subcommittee, 1963-1964 ("record copies filed in green notebook")

Minutes of meetings of RNWRP subcommittee, 1965-1966 ("record copies filed in green notebook")

Box 2

Administration

Minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Registry, 1963-1967. "Joyce’s work copy"

Minutes of meetings of RNWRP Advisory Committee, December 9, 1966; June 13, 1967

Minutes of meetings of RNWRP subcommittee, 1970-1971

Meetings, RNWRP Committee. Correspondence, memoranda, lists, and other documentation relating to the Registry, 1967-1973

Annual and other reports on Registry activities, 1962-1969

Vault inventory (retain for use by Registry of Noteworthy Research in Pathology) AFIP Professional Files area. 1965 or 1966, and 1967. "J.W. Garris G-066-S"

Registry acquisitions – notes that were dictated by CPT Cruet 1966-1967 (not all transcribed; some still on red transparent records)

Lists of videos from WRAMC-TV that have been converted to 16mm

CAP newspapers [Pathology Daily News]. "(Review for news items on RNWRP persons)" September 1969

Nobel Laureates. Reprints

Gold-headed Cane Award. Article by John H. Talbott

Obituaries and short biographies of persons not included in the Registry. Includes photograph of Dr. Frieda S.

Robscheit-Robbins (1893-1973), an associate of George Whipple

American Society of Experimental Pathologists. Photographs and correspondence, 1965

Correspondence and reprint. Hemorrhagic Fever Commission materials of Dr. Marshall Hertig

Correspondence. Bolivian Hemorrhagic Fever "(corres. only; no material obtained yet)" of Dr. Henry K. Beye

Box 3

Administration

Summary inventory of materials received by the Registry. 2 folders

Condensed inventory of materials received by the Registry. Several copies

Medical Museum. Includes meeting minutes; memoranda and correspondence on maintenance of data of former curators/directors/other AFIP staff; museum exhibits; and correspondence with Arthur T. Hertig

American Giants of Pathology. List of names and reprint

Miscellaneous files

Box 4

Abbott, Maude Elizabeth Seymour (1869-September 3, 1940) (Accession #1194002)

See also OHA 84, Abbott Scrapbook on the International Association of Medical Museums, 1908 1924

Based on her study of pathological specimens with the purpose of classification and recognition, Abbott was considered the greatest authority on congenital heart disease.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

1194002-2		Photograph from National Library of Medicine; other portraits Biographical material Correspondence, reprints, and manuscript about Dr. Abbott’s scrapbook Correspondence, general (See Numbered Correspondence 11187)
1194002-3		Reprint: Single issue of International Pathology containing photograph of a mural in Mexico City showing Dr. Abbott at work

Abel, Rudolf

Reprint

Adami, John George (January 12, 1862-August 29, 1926) (Accession #1194003)

Adami believed that many exogenic intoxications and acquired disturbances of metabolism had a changing effect on the germ cells and were thus heritable.

See also Howard T. Karsner’s manuscript, American Giants of Pathology

Inventory of materials received by the Registry

1194003-1		Reprint. On the Variability of Bacteria and the Development of Races. Medical Chronicle, September 1892
1194003-3		Reprint. Inflammation. 1896

Andersen, Dorothy Hansine (May 15, 1901-March 3, 1963) (Accession #1194004)

Andersen was the first scientist to identify the disease cystic fibrosis (1938) and helped create a test to diagnose it.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

Anderson, John F. (March 14, 1873-September 29, 1958) (Accession #1194005)

Anderson reported the existence of Spotted Fever in the Rocky Mountains (1903), and was known for his work on anaphylaxis.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

1194005-1		Reprint. Further Studies upon Anaphylaxis. Hygienic Laboratory, Bulletin Number 45, 1908
1194005-2		Reprint. Further Studies upon the Phenomenon of Anaphylaxis. Hygienic Laboratory, Bulletin Number 50, 1909 (2 copies)
1194005-3		Reprint. Studies upon Anaphylaxis with Special Reference to the Antibodies Concerned. Hygienic Laboratory, Bulletin Number 64, 1910

Angevine, D. Murray (1903- ) (Accession # 1194006)

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

Ash, James Earle (1884-1986) (Accession #1194007)

See also AFIP Historical Files, Curator Biographical Files

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

1194007-1		Portrait from National Library of Medicine
1194007-2		Reprint. James E. Ash, a Biographical Sketch, by Hugh R. Gilmore. Laboratory Investigation, 1954

Auerbach, Oscar (1905-January 15, 1997)

Found the first link between smoking and cancer.

Correspondence

Bailey, Percival Sylvester (May 9, 1892-August 11, 1973) (Accession #1194008)

With Harvey Cushing, he developed a pathogenic classification of gliomas.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

1194008-1		Reprint. Histologic Atlas of Gliomas. Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 1927 (2 copies)
1194008-2		Reprint. The Origin and Nature of Meningeal Tumors. American Journal of Cancer, 1931
1194008-3		Journal. Modern Medicine, November 22, 1965

Bayne-Jones, Stanhope (November 6, 1888-February 20, 1970) (Accession #1194009)

One of the ten members of the U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, which issued the

Surgeon General's Report in 1964 that linked smoking to cancer.

See also OHA 109, the Bayne-Jones Collection

Inventory of materials received by the Registry

Correspondence, curriculum vitae, reprints, Passano Award, book titled Joseph Jones (1833-1896)

Plaza recording tape. Tape recording made by Dr. Roger Terry, Professor of Pathology, University of Rochester: celebration of the 90th birthday of George Hoyt Whipple, August 28, 1968. (Housed in the Whipple file)

Bell, Elexious Thompson (August 30, 1880-September 16, 1963) (Accession #1194010)

Author of eight editions of The Textbook of Pathology and was known for his studies of hypertension and diabetes mellitus.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry; progress report on obtaining materials. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

1194010-4		Portrait from National Library of Medicine
1194010-5		Correspondence from Dr. Bell to Dr. Feldman; undated. 2 letters between Drs. Bell and Feldman (no accession number)

Other correspondence

1194010-7		Obituary: Lancet 84: 1964 (2 copies)
1194010-8		Obituary: Archives of Pathology 77: 1964. 4 copies

Newsclipping. Dr. Bell’s widow brings lawsuit

1194010-6		Brief biography and list of publications: Lancet 80:1960
1194010-3		Monograph: Experimental Diabetes Mellitus, Springfield, Dr. Charles C. Thomas, 1948. Monograph # 28 in American Lectures in Pathology. (Contributed by Dr. Paul R. Cannon). Copy 2/2

Best, Charles Herbert (February 27, 1899-March 31, 1978)

With Frederick Banting, discovered insulin.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry; portrait

Blake, Francis Gilman (February 22, 1887-1952) (and Russell L. Cecil) (Accession #1194011)

Did extensive work with Cecil on experimental pneumonia.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

1194011-1,2

Reprints. Studies on Experimental Pneumonia. I. Production of Pneumococcus Lobar Pneumonia in Monkeys, and II. Pathology and Pathogenesis of Pneumococcus Lobar Pneumonia in Monkeys. Journal of Experimental Medicine, 1920

Reprint

Boeck [Wilhelm] and Danielsen [sic]

Note: original folder labeled Boeck and Danielsen. Materials (correspondence) rehoused in Daneilssen.

Bordet, Jules (June 13, 1870-April 6, 1961) (Accession #1194012)

Received the Nobel Prize in 1919 for his work on immunity.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

1194012-1

Bronze bas relief which was purchased by Dr. Karsner and given to the Registry by him. (Dr. Bordet was responsible for the Bordet-Gegnon Test.) (Housed in Historical Collections.)

Boyd, William C. (June 21, 1885-March 10, 1979) (Accession #1194013)

Known for linking the pathology of illness and disease to their symptoms and disorders.

Inventory of materials received by the Registry. Materials were deaccessioned in September 1973.

Correspondence

1194013-1		Biography. William Boyd, a Biographical Sketch, by G. Lyman Duff. Laboratory Investigation 5, 1956 (positive photostat containing good photograph)
1194013-3		Article: Gold-Headed Cane Ceremony, by John H. Talbott, M.D., The Pharos, October 1964; photocopy
1194013-4		Newspaper article: Dr. Boyd receiving Gold-Headed Cane Award, The Toronto Gazette, May 4, 1962 (contains photograph) (2 copies)
1194013-2		Journal. Modern Medicine, April 1, 1963 (2 copies) Reprints, photocopies