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Accession 1990-048

Accession 1992-037

These images were text and illustrations for talks like a modern PowerPoint presentation. The first five folders contain slide masters for miscellaneous graphs and charts.

The grants files include more research grants than training grants.  These grant files were in Robin' s Office in Psychiatry in 1993 and are in rough alphabetical order. Minutes, memos, correspondence, ledgers and notes and grant proposals and reports make up the files. Some grant proposals and reports are in other series. In addition, the grant files for the Collaborative program on the Psychobiology of Depression contain reviewer's manuscripts for monographs that  came out of the study.

The Clinical Research Branch (National Institute of Mental Health finding) convened a conference that reviewed findings that patients with affective disorders have abnormalities in one or more neurobiological systems.  NIMH sponsored the development of a multi-research center, collaborative approach, to the study of the psychobiology of affective disorders from 1975-1986. St. Louis patients of this collaborative study of the psychobiology of depression were assigned the number 5.

Restricted files with patient information were shredded except for those in series 25.

During the 1950's schizophrenia was a major focus of Robins research. One initial paper from this patient study is: Robins, E., Croninger, A.B., Smith, K. and Moody, A.C., 1962. Studies on n?acetyl neuraminic acid in the cerebrospinal fluid in schizophrenia. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 96(1), pp.390-391.

This series contains training materials such as manuals, syllabi and Robins own notebook ion neuropsychiatric diseases from 1949.

This letter contains patient information and is closed until 100 years from date, 2071.

These files contain employee / resident information and are closed until 80 years from date. The whole series will be open in 2073.

Barnes Medical College was organized in 1892 as a for-profit venture by a group of physicians and business leaders and named in honor of a recently deceased merchant, Robert A. Barnes (1808-1892). Barnes had bequeathed money for the construction of a hospital and it has been widely presumed that the educators’ choice of name was part of an attempt to secure an affiliation between the two institutions. If so, the attempt failed, for the trustees of the Robert A. Barnes estate chose instead to reinvest the assets and wait for a more favorable time to build Barnes Hospital. Ignoring the rebuff, the college trustees constructed a building of their own at 2645 Chestnut (later renamed Lawton) Street. The institution quickly became the largest medical college in the city (ca. 400 students) and its program outgrew the original structure. In 1896 a second building opened two blocks west, on Lawson at Garrison Avenue. In 1902 the objective of a college-related clinical facility was achieved with the establishment of Centenary Hospital and the Barnes Dispensary in a new adjoining building. The institution also operated a dental college (see below), a college of pharmacy, and a nurses’ training program. At its height, the college enrolled approximately 600 students, and in 1904 changed its name to Barnes University. Despite these enhancements and changes of name, it became increasing apparent that the institution was financially unstable. The trustees offered their properties to the Curators of the University of Missouri in 1906 to house the state medical college. The negotiations lasted over a year and the Curators came close to accepting what seemed at first to be a generous offer. In the end, however, the state refused to pay the private venture’s debts and plans for the connection collapsed in 1908. During this same period, Barnes did absorb a smaller private school, the Hippocratean College of Medicine. Flexner severely criticized the Barnes institutions in 1909, however, a contemporary reviewer writing for the American Medical Association (Philip Skrainka, 1910) judged their quality “good.” One year following the merger with American Medical College in 1911 the names Barnes ceased to refer to medical instruction by this organization. For a brief period (1911-1914?) the Centenary facility was administered by Christian Hospital. From 1919 until 1936 the city of St. Louis used the building as a hospital for African American patients (City Hospital No. 2). The structures at Garrison and Lawton were demolished in 1960.

This series brings together three very different artifacts reflecting personal experiences at the Barnes institutions. The first is a notebook with 18 leaves of handwritten notes by a student, George B.M. Erwin (b. 1862), dated 1899-1900. Judging from information inscribed on the notebook cover, he may have also have studied pharmacy at the Marion Sims College in 1895-1896. Following graduation from Barnes in 1900 Erwin is listed in the American Medical Directory as having practiced medicine in Granite City, Illinois until 1931. The item was a gift to the St. Louis Medical Society Library by M. H. Mantler of St. Louis. The second artifact is a booklet containing the “Reminiscences” of O[rril] LeGrand Suggett (b 1873), an 1893 Barnes graduate who went on to teach urology at his alma mater. Suggett delivered this text at a “smoker” (an informal gathering) at the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1908, when it was thought that the agreement was close that would have merged the state medical school with Barnes. Following the failure of the Barnes-successor schools, Suggett moved his practice to Ashville, NC, where he remained active into the 1950s. The third is a picture postcard of the Barnes buildings sent in 1910.

During most of its history, Barnes Dental College was operated by an executive committee of three dentists, George H. Owen, Otto J. Fruth, and D. E. Morrow, who entered into contracts on an annual basis with Barnes University or its successor, National University.

Exactly why the backers of Barnes University chose in 1912 to rename their institution National University of Arts and Sciences is unknown, although it is possible to speculate that whereas construction of the (totally unrelated) Barnes Hospital was by then underway, the hospital trustees perhaps asserted claims to exclusive rights to the Barnes name. National University established an undergraduate college in 1913, with courses initially offered in the medical building, then in 1915 moved to a structure at Grand and Delmar Boulevards. The institution attempted as well to operate a preparatory academy. After Christian Hospital withdrew from administration of the former Centenary structure, what was left of the inpatient facility was renamed National Hospital. Also in 1915, a merger was announced between the medical department and the St. Louis College of Physician and Surgeons, another financially beleaguered independent school. This arrangement failed, however, with Physicians and Surgeons withdrawing its faculty and students in 1916. That year witnessed the end of all the National departments but medicine. In 1918 the last medical class graduated and National’s clinical facilities ceased to treat patients.

Individual portrait photographs (or headshots) of Department of Medicine interns.