Simon Flexner Papers, American Philosophical Society

Simon Flexner Papers
1891-1946
(115.5 linear feet)

B F365

105 South Fifth Street * Philadelphia, PA 19106-3386

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Faber, Charles E.

Faber, Erwin F.

Faber, Harold K.

2 folders

Fabish, Walter

Fabor, K.

Fabricant, Solomon

Fabyan, George

Fabyan, Marshal

Fadiman, Clifton

Fagan, Robert H.

Failla, G.

Fairbanks, Arthur W.

Fairchild, B. T.

Fairchild, David

Fairchild, H. L.

Fairer, J. A.

Fairleigh, Frances

Faitlovich, Jacques

Falconer, Robert A.

Fales, Jane

Fales, Edna M.

Falk, I. S.

Falk, Kaufman George

1911

2 items

Includes: Application to work in RIMR's department of chemistry, 1911.

Falk, Ralph

Falkner, Edgar A.

Falta, Wilhelm

1922

3 items

Includes: Letters to SF concerning his financial difficulties at Kaiserin Elizabeth Hospital, Vienna.

Falter, E. E.

Fama, Frank

Fanders, Edward

Fankboner, W. A.

Farias, J.

Faris, R. L.

Farley, Belmont

Farley, John C.

Farley, Mildred T.

Farmer, Laurence

Farmer, Thomas P.

Farran, Dorothy

Farrand, Daisy

Farrand, Livingston

2 folders

Farrand, Max

Farrand, Wilson

Farrington, E. A.

Farris, Mamie E.

Fassett, Charles Wood

Faught, Albert Smith

Fauntleroy, A. M.

Fauntleroy, Robert R.

Faure, G. C.

Faust, Ernest C.

Faust, George E.

Faxon, William Bailey

Fay, Margaret V.

Fay, Temple

Fechet, E. A.

Federighi, Henry

Feemster, Roy F.

Feinberg, Israel L.

Feiss, Henry O.

Feist, H. M.

Feld, Rose C.

Feldman, Abraham J.

Feldman, Maurice

Feldstein, S.

Felix, Louis E.

Fell, George E.

Felsen, J.

Felsenstein, Bernard

Felt, E. P.

Felton, Lloyd D.

1918-1933

2 folders

Includes: Correspondence concerning Felton's working at RIMR, 1920; discussion of his work on chemotherapy and pneumoccus; at the RIMR, his administrative correspondence about Felton's expenses. Requests from Felton to Rockefeller Foundation for funds to aid his research at Harvard University Department of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, 1933.

Felty, A. R.

Femulener, L. W.

Fenn, Wallace O.

1921-1924

20 items

Includes: Correspondence about Fenn's plans to work with A. V. Hill, Bayliss, and F. G. Hopkins in England,.1922. Letter to SF outlining offer of professorship of physiology at University of Rochester, 1924.

Fenniman, Nevin M.

Fenstermaker, F.

Feraud, Pascal

Ferguson, F. S.

Ferguson, J. F.

Ferguson, J. S.

Ferguson, Lee H.

Ferguson, Margaret

Ferguson, R. R.

Ferguson, William Scott

Fernald, Mabel R.

Fernandez, Emilio Munoz

Fernandez, Francisco M.

Fernando, Juan S.

Ferraro, A.

Ferree, C. E.

Ferrell, John A.

1914-1936

7 folders

Includes: Letters detailing work of field workers of Rockefeller Sanitary Commission in the southern states of U.S. on the eradication of hookworm, 1914; administrative correspondence concerning appointment of field directors for Commission. Copies of letters of recommendation to New York State Board of Medical Examiners requesting that Ferrell be licensed. Correspondence about samples of Carvacrol sent by Kremers in Wisconsin to RIMR to test its effectiveness in hookworm disease. General administrative correspondence.

Ferrer, Pedro L.

Ferrer, R. Gomez

Fetcher, E. Stanton

Fetter, George G.

Fibiger, J.

Field, Frederick V.

Field, James G.

Field, John H.

Field, Mrs. Marshall

Fielder, Gov.

Fielder, Martha

Fielder, Una

Fields, J. C.

Filbey, Emery

Finch, Edith

Finch, George G.

Finlayson, Maurice Harris

Findley, E. N.

Fine, L. Henry B.

Finfrock, John Q.

Fingerhood, Boris

Finkelstein, Philip H.

Finklstein, M.

Finley, Charles W.

Finley, John H

Finley, Knox H

Finney, J. M. T.

4 folders

Finney, Roy P.

Finney, W. P., Jr.

Finsterwald, Louis

Finzi, Guido

Firor, Warfield M.

Fischel, W. E.

Fischer, Albert

2 folders

Fischer, Alfred E.

Fischer, E.

Fischer, Emil

1912-1913

15 items

Includes: Correspondence concerning use of arsenicals by RIMR in the treatment of patients with virulent pneumonia. Recommendations to Fischer of Dr. Uexkull. Fisher, Irving. 2 folders, 1913-1930 Letters on international meeting of antivivisectionists, Washington, D.C., 1913.

Fischer, Gustav

Fischer, Hermann O. L.

Fischer, Isidor

Fischer, Josef

Fischer, Louis

2 folders

Fischer, Martin H.

Fischer, Walther

Fischler, Franz

Fish, Charles J.

Fish, E. J.

Fishback, H. R.

Fishbein, Morris

2 folders

Fishberg, Maurice

Fishburne, S. B.

Fisher, Charles F.

Fisher, Edward D.

Fisher, George J.

Fisher, Gertrude

Fisher, H. J.

Fisher, Henry M.

Fisher, Hubert F.

Fisher, Irving

2 folders

Fisher, James A.

Fisher, Newton

Fisher, Ralph Stephen

Fisher, Ruth

Fisk, Charity

Fiske, Andrew

Fiske, E. A.

Fiske, John H.

Fister, Emil A.

Fitch, William Edward

Fitchett, M. S.

Fitz, Reginald

1917-1939

35 items

Includes: Personal correspondence between Fitz and SF while Fitz was with American Expeditionary Forces in France, 1917. Correspondence on offer of professorship of medicine, University of Michigan, to Fitz, 1920. Letters concerning his work at the Peter Beat Brigham Hospital as a visiting physician under Herter, 1922.

Fitzgerald, Alice

Fitzgerald, J. G.

Fitzgerald, Paul B.

Fitzpatrick, Charles B.

Fitzpatrick, M. J.

Fitz-Randolph, R. B.

Flagg, Helen K.

Flagg, Paluel J.

Flaks, J.

Flament, M. Lucien

Flanagan, Richard J.

Flatow, Ida

Fleckles, Mary Fish

Fleishman, Leon S.

Fleishman, Louis

Fleisher, Dr.

Fleming, Brooks, Jr.

Fleming, George E.

Fleming, John A.

Fleming, Matthew C.

Fletcher, Harvey

Fletcher, Sir Walter Morley

1916-1932

3 folders

Includes: Correspondence about exchange of reprints, specimens and sera. Copy of a letter from ca. J. Martin to Fletcher about work of Harriette Chick on nutrition among children in Vienna, 1919-1920. General correspondence about Fletcher's visit to U.S., 1920. Correspondence on proposed candidates for chair of pathology, at Cambridge University, after death of Woodhead. General personal and professional correspondence.

Flexner, Abraham

17 folders

Includes: Letters from SF to AF outlining his thoughts on organization of clinical pathology at Johns Hopkins University. Correspondence on his book on medical education in Europe. Correspondence about development of Stanford University Medical School. Correspondence about proposals that Rockefeller Foundation fund an institute of public health; SF feels it should be attached to Johns Hopkins University, Feb. 1916. Correspondence about professorship of physiology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School vacated by Howell, Feb. 1916. Letters about the upset at Harvard University, where "the reactionaries" displaced Cannon, Cushing, and Folin, with suggestion that Cannon be asked to fill professorship of physiology at Johns Hopkins University Medical School vacated by Howell, Feb. 1916. Letters from W. G. MacCallum to W. H. Welch concerning budgets of Departments of Pathology and Bacteriology at Johns Hopkins University, listing staff positions and salaries, 1917. Report on conference respecting a medical school for University of Chicago by Drs. Judson, Billings, Welch, Smith, Coolidge and SF, June 1919. 8 pp. Copy of a letter from Joseph Erlanger to AF requesting funds to visit Bellevue Hospital to work on shock, 6/17/19. Revised budget for College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1920. (11 pp.) Correspondence about Richard M. Pearce's letter to Cushing on meaning of ''full-time" employment, May 1920. Letter from SF to AF outlining what the next generation of laboratory men would need to accomplish effective -work; he stresses emphasis on chemistry and physics rather than biology; and suggests successor to Pearce at University of Pennsylvania, 3/12/20. Memorandum on medical education in the South by AF, 1920. (22 pp.) General correspondence on vacant positions at several institutions. Letter to SF on possibility of creating a Department of Comparative Pathology for Leo Loeb, 2/13/20. Report by AF on pharmacology in medicine, with SF's comments, 7/4/24. Correspondence concerning Walter and Da-ndy's tour of medical schools in Europe, March 1924. Letter from SF to AF on booklet on colloid chemistry. SF discusses colloid chemistry studies at University of Wisconsin and his reservations over establishing an independent foundation for any branch of chemistry, SF feels recommendations concerning colloid chemistry had been made by men not distinguished as chemists, 6/10/24. Correspondence about offer to McLean of a professorship at University of Chicago, 1924. Letter from SF to AF about International Education Board's funding Einstein's work on quantum theory, 1/1/24. Correspondence between AF and SF on proposed gift of General Education Board to Washington University to organize its department of bacteriology. Correspondence about desire of E. O. Jordan, University of Chicago, to employ Dr. Bronfenbrenner of RIMR, 10/25/27. Letter of SF to AF asking whether Rockefeller Foundation may see its way to fund research of Herbert M. Evans at University of California for five years. 3/13/28. Letter from SF discussing benefits of AF's work on medical education, and outlining hopes for many of the institutions AF had helped build up or create, 1/15/29. Some personal correspondence. Folders 13-16 contain general and administrative correspondence, including letters originally accompanying reports, etc.

Folder 1

1910-1914

Folder 2

1915

Folder 3

1916

Folder 4

1917

Folder 5

1918

Folder 6

1919

Folder 7

1920

Folder 8

1920

Folder 9

1921

Folder 10

1924

Folder 11

1924

Folder 12

1924

Folder 13

1925

Folder 14

1925

Folder 15

1926

Folder 16

1927

Folder 17

1928

Folder 18

1928-1929

Flexner, Anne

Flexner, Bernard

1918-1930

3 folders

Includes: Personal correspondence.

Flexner, Caroline

Flexner, Edward M.

Flexner, Ermence

Flexner, Ernst

Flexner, Helen Thomas

1909-1916

5 folders

Includes: Personal correspondence.

Flexner, Henry W.

Flexner, Hortense

Flexner, Isidore

Flexner, Jacob A.

2 folders

Flexner, James

Flexner, James T.

Flexner, Jennie M.

Flexner, Louis B.

Flexner, M. B.

Flexner, Mary

Flexner, Maurice

Flexner, Miriam

Flexner, Morris

1912-1930

2 folders

Includes: Correspondence on his work under Jobling at University of Chicago, 1912; and on his medical work in Kentucky during WWI. Family correspondence.

Flexner, Salina

Flexner, Simon.
General administrative correspondence concerning RIMR

1915-1935

65 folders

Much is to and from SF's secretary, Miss Von der Osten, on occasions when SF was away from the office.

Flexner, Simon

25 Years of Bacteriology, A Fragment of Medical Research

Abstract, Bryn Mawr Endowment Dinner

Feb.28, 1920

Accelerated Infection in Experimental Poliomyelitis

Accelerated Infection in the Virus of Poliomyelitis and its Significance (with some notes)

Acceleration Data

Address Delivered at Imperial Univ. of Kyoto, Japan

Dec. 1915

Advance of Practical Medicine Through Research

Advancement of Epidemiology through Experiment [typescript of Weir Mitchell Lecture]

Association of American Rhodes Scholars

[Bacteriology]

Bibliography

1935-1944

Bibliography - Compiled by Hilda A. von Berg, New York

June 1937

2 folders

Biggs, Hermann M. - Obituary

Birthday Letters

1933

[Carrel, Alexis]

Conquest of Tuberculosis

Contribution of Pasteur to the Knowledge of Immunity and Therapy

Contributions to the Etiology and Pathology of Poliomyelitis

3 folders

Cornell Medical School

Cultivation of the Virus of Rift Valley Fever and use of the Mouse in its Titration

Dinner

Oct. 16, 1914

Dinner - Abbott, A. C.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Abel, John J.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Barker, Lewellys F.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Batchelder, N.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Carrel, Alexis

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Conklen, E. G.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Councilman, W. T.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Cushing, Harvey

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Dakin, Henry D.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, Helen Thomas

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, S., Correspondence (A-B)

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, S., Correspondence (C)

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, S., Correspondence (D-F)

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, S., Correspondence (G-J)

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, S., Correspondence (K-M)

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, S., Correspondence (N-P)

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, S., Correspondence (R-S)

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Flexner, S., Correspondence (T-Z)

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Frazier, C. H.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Gates, Frederick T.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Gay, Frederick P.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Hale, George Ellery

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Howell, William H.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Keen, W. W.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Lists for Invitation

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Martin, C. F.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Miscellaneous

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Nichols, H. J.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Pearce, Richard M.

Dec. 13, 1924

2 folders

Dinner - Portrait Bust

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Replies sent to Dr. Swift

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Rose, Wickliffe

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Rous, Peyton

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Sabin, Florence R.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Smith, Frank R.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Smith, Theobald

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Thayer, W. S.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Thomas, Henry M.

Dec. 13, 1924

Dinner - Welch, William Henry

Dec. 13, 1924

Discussion by S.F. of paper of Dr. A.H. Gordon, "Postvaccinal Encephalitis"

[Discussion of Dr. Babcock's paper, Section on Laryngology]

Jan 23, 1918

Discussion of Poliomyelitis

Discussion on the Papers of Drs. Flexner, Paul, and Park [Poliomyelitis]

Diseases Specific

Dr. Franklin P. Mall: An Appreciation

Effects of Nasally Instilled Virus of Poliomyelitis on the Cerebrospinal Fluid and the Blood of Monkeys

2 folders

[Eliot, Charles W.]

Encephalitis Produced after Internasal Instillation of Virus

Epidemic Encephalitis or Sleeping Sickness

Epidemic Influenza: A Virus Disease

Epidemiology and Recent Epidemics

Era of Medical Discovery

Evolution and Organization of the University Clinic [Oxford University]

5 folders

Experiments on the Mode of Infection and Means of Prevention of Poliomyelitis

2 folders

Fixation of the Virus of Poliomyelitis by Nervous Tissues

2 folders

Fundamental Training for Medicine

Gastro-Intestinal versus Respiratory Infection in Poliomyelitis

Glimpse into Medical Research

Half Century of American Medicine

2 folders

Herter, Christian, Lecture

Herter Lectures, Notes

Heterologus Reinfection

2 folders

Human and Early Monkey Immunization

Immunity and Reinfection in Experimental Poliomyelitis

2 folders

Infantile Paralysis (Poliomyelitis)

Infection and Recovery from Infection

Infection by dropping virus into Nose

Infections of the Central Nervous System

Influence of Scientific Research in Relation to Public Health Work

Intravenous Notes

Introduction to Reprint of "Adaptation in Pathological Processes" by William H. Welch

1937

Inventories

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute

Lethargic Encephalitis

2 folders

Local Specific Treatment of Epidemic Meningitis

Local Specific Treatment of Experimental Infections

Local Specific Treatment of Infections

Medical Research and its Organization

Medicine of Today: An Historical Sketch

Meningitis

Methods and Purposes of Medical Research

Milbank Memorial Fund Dinner Advisory Council Address

March 28, 1935

Misc. Medical Notes

5 folders

Mitchell, S. Weir, Lecture (Before final corrections)

Mode of Infection in Poliomyelitis

Mount Sinai Hospital Address Notes

March 27, 1927

Nasal Inoculation

Nerve Path of Infection in Poliomyelitis and its Significance

Newer Aspects of the Carrier Problem

Notations and Markings in Dr. Flexner's Polio Volume for the 1944 Edition

Notes for Johns Hopkins Hospital Aniversary, Baltimore

May 5, 1939

Notes for St. Louis Address

Notes on Encephalitis

Notes on Local Specific Therapy

2 folders

Nutrition Notes

Oxford and Cambridge Lectures [Virus Diseases and Poliomyelitis]

1938

2 folders

Pasteur and the Rise of Bacteriology

Pathology, Misc. Notes for Text Book

[Pathology, Medical Volume Notes]

Folder 1. Disturbances of Circulation

Folder 2. Capillaries, Veins, Lymphatic Vessels, Inflammations, etc.

Folder 3. Diseases of Blood Vessels, Liver

Folder 4. Aneurism and Veins

Folder 5. Heart, Arteries, Veins and Capillaries

Folder 6. Development of the Heart

Folder 7. Liver, Gall bladder

Folder 8. Syphillis

Folder 9. Gall bladder

Folder 10. Bronchi and Lungs

Folder 11. Inflammation of the Lungs

Folder 12. Emphysema

Folder 13. Larynx, Trachea and Bronchi, and Pleura

Folder 14. Liver

Pathology of Epidemic and Postvaccinal Encephalitis

Pathology of the Human and Experimental Poliomyelitis of the 20th Century

Poliomyelitis

1931-1932

Poliomyelitis, Analyzed Lists

Poliomyelitis and Therapeutic Serum Treatment in Poliomyelitis

Poliomyelitis as a Respiratory Infection

Poliomyelitis, Baltimore Talk

1931

Poliomyelitis, Homologous Reinfection

Poliomyelitis, Misc. Notes

Poliomyelitis: Mode of Infection and Means of Prevention

Poliomyelitis: Nature and Mode of Transmission

Poliomyelitis, Respiratory versus Gastro-Intestinal Infection in Poliomyelitis (Ms. Copy)

Postvaccinal Encephalitis

2 folders

Presevation of Convalescent Poliomyelitis Serum