Harold Lindsay Amoss Papers :: American Philosophical Society

Table of Contents

Background note
Scope & content
Collection information
Indexing Terms
Contact information
Detailed inventory

Abstract

A pathologist and researcher at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 1914-1922, Harold Linday Amoss (1886-1956) specialized in research on infectious diseases ranging from poliomyelitis to meningitis, erysipelas, brucellosis, and encephalitis.

The Amoss Papers are comprised primarily of materials relating to Harold Amoss' medical service in the United States Army during the First World War (1918-1919), to his research at the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research, 1920-1922, and to his efforts to develop vaccines for meningitis and poliomyelitis.

Background note

The pathologist Harold Lindsay Amoss was born in Cobb, Kentucky, on September 8, 1886. After receiving his BS (1905) and MS (1907) degrees at the University of Kentucky, he pursued both medical degree and doctorate at Harvard, receiving them in successive years, 1911 and 1912.

Amoss's early career was marked by an atypical academic vagabondage that saw him shift positions nearly every year. He passed through jobs with the Kentucky Agricultural Station (1905-1906), the Hygienic Laboratory of the U.S. Public Health Service (1906-1907), and the Bureau of Chemistry of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1907-1908) before landing a position in the Harvard Medical School. In 1912, he was lured to the vibrant life at the Rockefeller Institute to work in pathology and bacteriology. Interrupted by service in France during the First World War, Amoss' research was focused on a variety of infectious diseases, including poliomyelitis, meningitis, erysipelas, brucellosis, and encephalitis and on the development of vaccines.

Leaving the Rockefeller in 1922, Amoss joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (1922-1930) as a professor of medicine and worked briefly at Duke University (1930-1933), before returning to the Rockefeller in 1933 as a medical consultant. He remained associated with the Rockefeller.

Scope and content

The Amoss Papers represent the scant survivals of the papers of Harold L. Amoss, a pathologist and medical researcher long associated with the Rockefeller Institute. The collection includes professional correspondence with colleagues, both in-coming and out-going, dating primarily from the period 1918-1922. While there is interesting material pertaining to Amoss' research on polio, meningitis, and on vaccines, nothing is very extensive. Documentation of Amoss' service in the Army Medical Corps during the First World War is somewhat better, though still slight.

Collection information

Provenance

Gift of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1964 (accession number 1964-150.2ms).

Preferred citation

Cite as: Harold Lindsay Amoss Papers, American Philosophical Society.

Related material

The papers of several of Amoss's colleagues at the Rockefeller Institute contain additional correspondence, including Leon J. Cole, Simon Flexner, and Peyton Rous.

Indexing Terms

Corporate Name(s)

Lederle Laboratory
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.

Personal Name(s)

Amoss, Harold Lindsay, 1886-1956
Bayne-Jones, Stanhope, 1888-1970
Beckwith, H. K.
Chesney, Alan M., (Alan Mason), 1888-1964
Cole, Rufus Ivory, 1872-1966
Corner, George Washington, 1889-1981
Flexner, Simon, 1863-1946
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 1878-1969
Heiser, Victor, (Victor George)
Hitchens, Arthur Parker, 1877-1949
Hume, Edward H. (Edward Hicks), 1876-1957
Kunz, George Frederick, 1856-1932
Lane, William Arbuthnot, Sir, 1856-1943
Lovett, Robert W., (Robert Williamson), 1859-1924
McCrae, Thomas, 1870-1935
Murphy, James Bumgardner, 1884-1950
Noguchi, Hideyo, 1876-1928
Olitsky, Peter Kosciusko, 1886-1964
Osler, William, Sir, 1849-1919
Osten, Anna L. von der
Piersol, George Morris, 1880-1966
Robbins, Frederick C., 1916-
Rockefeller, John D., (John Davison), 1874-1960
Rous, Peyton, 1879-1970
Smith, Theobald, 1859-1934
West, Byron L. (Byron Lillibridge), 1893-
Woglom, William Henry, 1879-1953
Zinsser, Hans, 1878-1940

Subject(s)

Immunology
Medicine--Research
Meningitis--Research
Pathology
Poliomyelitis--Research
United States. Army--Medical care
World War, 1914-1918--Medical care

Detailed Inventory

Harold Lindsay Amoss Papers	1918-1922		Box 1-2 Request Series
Alexander, Harry L			Request File
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American Association of Immunologists			Request File
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Amoss, Harold L.			Request File
Amoss, Harold L.			Request File
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