Medicine and Health
Found in 38 Collections and/or Records:
Oregon State Pharmaceutical Association records
Collection consists of correspondence, 1935-1937, regarding business matters, mostly from OSPA president Roy A. Perry; miscellaneous documents regarding the OSPA convention in Gearhart, Oregon, 1934-1935, including membership lists and a speech by Perry.
Portland Hospital records
Collection includes miscellaneous papers, correspondence, and newspaper clippings, 1888-1904, concerning the Portland Hospital, its Methodist roots, various legal troubles and Dr. Osman Royal of the Homeopathic Medical Society.
Valentine Prichard papers
Papers of the director of the People's Institute of Portland, Oregon, a non-sectarian service organization for women and children. The collection contains organizational records, subject files, a small amount of correspondence, and papers written by Valentine Prichard.
Reflections on the Global Pandemic of 1918
Short history about life at Camp Lewis, Washington, during the 1918 influenza epidemic, with a focus on Major Herbert Merton Greene and Jenny Todd Booth, who served at the base hospital as acting base hospital commander and chief of nurses, respectively. Also includes biographical details about Greene and Booth, who married in October 1918. Jenny Greene later changed her first name to Jeanne.
Dr. W. Tyler Smith account book
Account book of a physician in Sheridan, Oregon, 1906-1909, regarding patients and medical expenses.
Oral history interview with John H. Steelquist
Oral history interview with John H. Steelquist conducted by Deborah M. Frosaker on December 8, 1977. Steelquist discusses the medical work of his maternal great-grandmother, Catherine Davis, and the pharmaceutical career of his maternal grandfather, Melancthon Marshall Davis, in 19th- and 20th-century Oregon.
E. B. Stewart financial papers
Ledger sheets relating to the practice of Dr. E. B. Stewart, as well as the medical practices Seely, Sether & Stewart; Sether & Stewart; and Stewart & Hess. E. B. Stewart was a physician in Roseburg, Oregon, during the first half of the 20th century.
F. O. Vondergreen papers
Collection includes physician's account books, 1879-1883; and a manuscript letter from "Sarah Jane" to "Dear Mrs. Chapman," 1866, regarding a trip from Oregon to San Francisco, New York, Boston, and Orrington, Maine, and seeing actor Edwin Forest perform in New York City.