Baruch Blumberg (P&S, ‘51). Constitution of the Moengo Society and several reprints relating to research done by its members, 1951-1955 (4 items). The Moengo Society was an organization of P&S students, faculty, and alumni who had been at the Moengo Hospital of the Surinam Bauxite Company in Suriname, South America, to study topical medicine under P&S professor Harold Brown.
The family of Rustin McIntosh. Additions to the McIntosh papers, c.1930-c.1950 (.75 cubic feet). Includes a diary of his European tour of pediatric hospitals, 1930; patient records; and correspondence with patients’ parents, 1930s-1940s.
Allan G. Rosenfield (P&S, ‘59). Howard C. Taylor, Jr.’s (P&S, ‘24) typescript “History of the International Institute for the Study of Human Reproduction,” 1953-1968 (.5 cubic feet). Taylor, who founded the Institute in 1965 as an interdisciplinary center for the study of human reproduction, kept an almost daily account of his efforts to establish and then launch the Institute.
Peter Puchner (P&S, ‘62). A typescript history of U.S. Army Hospital #1, originally organized by Columbia University and called the Columbia War Hospital, 1919 (1 volume). Besides a complete history of the hospital from its opening in May 1917 to its closing in Oct. 1919, the volume contains 20 photographs of hospital exteriors and interiors, as well operating room and ward scenes.
John N. Schullinger (P&S ’55). Correspondence and printed and manuscript articles, 1942-1957, documenting the role of his father, Rudolph N. Schullinger (P&S, ‘23 and long-time P&S professor of surgery), in the clinical testing of penicillin while stationed at the U.S. Army General Hospital #2 located outside Oxford, England (16 items)
Anneliese Sitarz (P&S, ‘54). Additions to her papers, 1957-2005 (.5 cubic ft.), documenting her career in pediatric oncology at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
Mervyn W. Susser, Gertrude Sergievsky professor emeritus of epidemiology. Papers documenting his distinguished career as a psychiatric epidemiologist and health activist including correspondence, research files, lectures, and articles, 1966-2005 (37 cubic feet).
Office of the Executive VP for Health and Biomedical Sciences/Dean of the Faculty of Medicine. Records, 1988-2008 (33 cubic feet). Includes records from the administrations of Herb Pardes (1989-1999), Gerald Fischbach (2001-2006), and Lee Goldman (2006- ).
Center for Biomedical Communications. Videotapes of CUMC events, c.1988-c.2003 (5 cubic feet); Photographs, slides, negatives, and contact sheets, illustrating Medical Center events, people, buildings, etc., c.1982-2004 (46 cubic feet).
Dept. of Pathology and Cell Biology. 15 volumes of Presbyterian Hospital autopsy records, 1872-1911, 1917-1919.
The family of Gabriel Godman, late emeritus professor of pathology and microbiology. 11 titles, 1632-1974, from Dr. Godman’s library. Most are landmarks in the history of microbiology including Henry Baker’s The Microscope Made Easy (London, 1743) and Abraham Trembley’s Mèmoirs, pour Servir à L’Histoire d’un Genre de Polypes d’Eau Douce (Leyden, 1744), though the most notable item is an early edition of Robert Burton’s psychiatric classic The Anatomy of Melancholy (Oxford, 1632).
Gerald S. Golden (P&S, ‘61). A copy of Robert J. Culverwell’s Porneiopathology; a Popular Treatise on Venereal and other Diseases of the Male and Female Genital System; with Remarks on Impotence, Onanism, Sterility, Piles, and Gravel, and Prescriptions for their Treatment (New York, 1849). Although the 1844 first edition of this work is relatively common, no other copy of the 1849 edition is held by a U.S. library.
Elliott Emerson Leuallen, A Boy from Cape May Court House at Columbia University College of Pharmacy, 1948-1966 (published by the author, 2008). Leuallen, now age 94, has just written this memoir of his time as dean of the Columbia University College of Pharmacy, 1952-1966.
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