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This collection includes minutes of the faculty, rules and regulations, and faculty correspondence.

Statistics of Cholera in Saint Louis in 1866...by Robt. Moore, a 3 by 5 inch notebook containing mortality data for all blocks of the city in that year. The folder also contains related printed matter.

This collection includes 7 scrapbooks:
--Scrapbook 1, 1915-1917
--Scrapbook 2, 1918-1925
--Scrapbook 3, 1926-1930
--Scrapbook 4, 1934
--Scrapbook 5, 1935
--Scrapbook 6, 1936
--Scrapbook 7, 1939

See also Index to Vertical File of Saint Louis Metropolitan Medical Society (IG004).

Reprints of papers, essays, and addresses by Walter Wyman, MD, Surgeon General, 1883-1911... secured through courtesy of Messrs Henry P. and Frank Wyman for the St. Louis Medical History Club by George Homan, MD,... 1911.

The Nu Sigma Phi minute book, 1922-1924, consists of one document series organized chronologically. The minutes include information on the sorority’s business meetings, projects, activities, and membership. The records document the origin and development of the Washington University Lambda chapter during these years and the selection of women medical students, staff, and medical faculty for the sorority.

The record group concerns the selection of medical students for the society and the development of the local chapter. The records list many members who became prominent in their fields. The Alpha Omega Alpha fraternity records consist of three volumes, 1905-1957, that include the initial charter and constitution and by-laws, minutes of chapter meetings, treasury records, chapter membership lists, other by-laws, correspondence, and publications. See also the The Hatchet (1923-1931) and the Archives vertical file (1938-1992) for more information on this student organization.

The Becker Library no longer holds the archival records for the American Academy of Neurology.

In this oral history project, Dr. Edwin McCleskey and his associates, medical students James Carter and William Geideman, conducted interviews with 13 individuals who played a role in the desegregation of Washington University School of Medicine and its associated hospitals.

The interviewees include Ella Brown, the last Director of Nursing Services at Homer G. Phillips Hospital; Dr. Robert Lee, the first Assistant Dean for Minority Students at the School of Medicine; Dr. Julian Mosley, the second Black graduate of the School of Medicine; and Dr. Howard Phillip Venable, the last chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Homer G. Phillips and a vocal advocate for civil rights.

Topics include the segregated facilities at Barnes Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital prior to integration; the events and decisions leading to desegregation in the medical school and hospitals; recruitment, admissions, and retention of minority students at the School of Medicine; Homer G. Phillips Hospital, its role in the Black community, and its closure; the state of health care for the Black community in St. Louis; and the desegregation of local and national medical societies. The collection also includes some related documents donated by the interviewees.

Dr. McCleskey was an assistant professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the School of Medicine at the time he developed this project and conducted the interviews with his associates.

The interviews were all recorded on audio cassette tapes. Additions to the interview transcripts are marked with brackets. Interviewees were allowed to review these transcripts and make grammatical corrections. Also, interviewees were allowed to suggest additions or retractions from the transcript to ensure their meaning was clear.

In general, there are some discrepancies between the audio recording and interview transcripts, including elisions and occasional rewordings, however these changes do not create any significant impediments to understanding the content of the interviews. In some cases, noted in the series-level records and the transcripts, interviewees made substantial edits to their interview transcripts, which created additional discrepancies between the recording and transcript, but the edits do not interfere with understanding the original content.

Minutes of the St. Louis Dental Society, 1872-1886 & 1921-1929, with the minutes of two allied professional organizations: Dentists’ Scientific and Benevolent Association, 1883-1884, and St. Louis Society of Dental Science, 1906-1924.

Most of the documents are course catalogs or commencement programs which are arranged in short series according to academic name. There are only a few unpublished items in the collection, including the notes of a Barnes medical student (1899-1900) and several Barnes Dental College contracts (1908-1915 with related letter).

Notes relevant to the falsities in the report of the dean.