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Medicine and Health

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 284 Collections and/or Records:

Anthony Pearson lantern slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1997-001
Abstract

Dr. Anthony Pearson (1906-81) was a UOMS faculty member. Possessing a long-standing interest in art history as well, he has presented a collection of glass lantern slides showing portraits of prominent medical men of the past.

Dates: 1887-1997

People's Institute and Free Dispensary glass lantern slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: 1999-010
Abstract The People’s Institute was organized in 1904 to improve living conditions for the women and children in the northern end of Portland. The impetus for the Institute was a report by Valentine Prichard, supervisor of the public school kindergartens and principal of a training school for kindergarten teachers. This report, given in 1902 to Dr. Edgar P. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, along with Caroline Ladd and her daughter Helen Ladd Corbett, described the deplorable conditions...
Dates: 1907-1909; 1998; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1909

People's Institute and Free Dispensary records

 Collection
Identifier: 2008-010
Abstract

The People’s Institute worked to provide social services for the urban poor while the Portland Free Dispensary was an early effort to provide health services to the underserved. They served as a model of collaboration between the city’s charitable organizations and its medical community. This collection contains a variety of reports, correspondence, and other materials relating to the work of the People's Institute and Portland Free Dispensary.

Dates: 1919-1932

People’s Institute and Portland Free Dispensary minutes of the board of directors

 Collection
Identifier: 2001-002
Abstract Started in 1904 by Valentine Prichard and a number of interested parties, the People's Institute grew over the years to provide services to the poor and those unable to pay for medical services. in 1910, members of the University of Oregon Medical School were appointed trustees and assigned fourteen staff to the dispensary. In 1931, after 24 years of operation, the People's Institute and Free Dispensary was re-deployed as the Outpatient Clinic and fully under the Medical School. This...
Dates: 1919-1930

Ralph E. Peterson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2013-027
Abstract Ralph Edward Peterson, M.D., graduated from the University of Oregon Medical School in 1956 and served in the U.S. Air Force as a First Lieutenant and as Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at the Clark Air Force Base in Manila, Philippines from 1960 to 1966. From 1968 until he retired, Peterson practiced medicine in Naples, FL, and also served in the National Guard from 1977 to 1991. This collection documents the life of Dr. Peterson, his education, and his career through certificates, course...
Dates: 1947-2013

Pharmacy collection of Robert Ambrose

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-022
Abstract

The written prescriptions, scrapbook and assorted medicinal bottles were a part of Robert Ambrose's personal collection. Many of the written prescriptions in the scrapbook were created during the late 1890s by F.H. Caldwell, a pharmacist from North Yamhill, Oregon.

Dates: 1890-1911

Pharmacy Department collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2015-006
Abstract

The Pharmacy Department Collection contains one box of textural materials pertaining to medication management, the pharmaceutical departments of OHSU, news articles and newsletters (1979-2000), staff correspondence (1986-1988) and the Comparable Worth Study (1989).

Dates: 1979-2015

Grace Phelps papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-005
Abstract

Grace Phelps (1871-1952) was a prominent Oregonian health professional and nursing advocate who maintained a career as a practicing nurse from approximately 1900 to 1942. This collection houses the professional and public records of Grace Phelps, and includes materials relating to her time as head nurse at Base Hospitals 45 and 46 during WWI; head nurse at the Portland Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital; and Superintendent at Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children.

Dates: 1889-2008; Majority of material found within 1918 - 1946

Lucy Davis Phillips collection on women graduates of Oregon medical schools

 Collection
Identifier: 2004-030
Abstract Lucy I. Davis began her service at UOMS in 1918 and continued her duties until shortly before her death on October 8, 1943. While registrar, Lucy compiled the record of the activities of women graduates of the school. The materials were added to the Library collection. Materials included in the collection (originally in the form of a scrapbook) are photographs, biographical information, obituaries, newspaper clippings, chronological graduate lists, marital statuses, survey forms,...
Dates: 1852 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1920 - 1959