Typed Letter, Signed, from Harvey Cushing to Dr. Ernst P. [Philip] Boas, 1 August 1939.

CUSHING, Harvey

Verlag: 1939.

Beschreibung

1 leaf. Horizontal and vertical folds. Very Good. Letterhead: Yale University/ The School of Medicine/ New Haven Connecticut/ Dr. Harvey Cushing. Typed Letter: 1 August 1939./ Dear Dr. Boas:/ Thanks for your note. I shall be/ glad to write, as you request, to Dr. Lapham in regard to Dr. Theodore Bauer. I am sorry to say/ that I have heard from Dr. D'Aunoy who says that/ they have no vacancy at present. I hope Dr. Bauer/ may have better luck at the Tulane School./ Sincerely yours,/ Harvey Cushing [signed]/ Dr. Ernst P. Boas/ 1185 Park Avenue/New York City. Harvey Cushing died October 7, 1939, two months after he wrote this letter. About the recipient Ernst Philip Boas, quoting from the archives of the American Philosophical Society, which has the papers of Ernst Boas: "Ernst Boas (1891-1955), son of the anthropologist Franz Boas, was a physician noted for his work in cardiology, and like his father, he was very much involved with liberal social causes. Boas was an instructor in pathology and physiology, and an expert in chronic diseases. As a scientific investigator he developed the cardiotachometer and did primary research in many areas, especially on cholesterol and arteriosclerosis. He was one of the primary antagonists of the American Medical Association during the 1940s and 50s, a leading proponent of National Health Insurance, and an organizer of the Physicians Forum." The Dr. Lapham to whom Harvey Cushing was going to write was Dr. Maxwell Lapham who came to the Tulane University School of Medicine in 1937 as director of the Division of Medical Extension. In later years he was Dean of the School of Medicine, 1945-1963, and then University Provost, 1963-1965. The Dr. D'Aunoy to whom Cushing refers was Dr. Joseph Rigney D'Aunoy, who was Dean of the LSU School of Medicine from 1937 to 1939. I have not identified the Dr. Theodore Bauer on whose behalf Cushing was going to write. But I do not see how he could be the Dr. Theodore J. Bauer (1909-2005) of the U.S. Public Health Service, as the events recounted in his autobiography--Disease Finder from the Midwest: the Memoirs of Theodore J. Bauer, M.D--do not fit with the situation of the Dr. Theodore Bauer in this letter. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17420

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Titel: Typed Letter, Signed, from Harvey Cushing to...

Verlag: 1939.

Einband: No Binding

Zustand: Very Good

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