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Medicine and Health

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 85 Collections and/or Records:

Artemesia Draper Anderson biography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230308154]
Identifier: MSS SC 1021
Scope and Contents

Typescript of a biography of Artemesia Draper Anderson. Anderson was born and grew up in Moroni, Utah, where she married, raised her children, and supplemented her family income through midwifery. In 1891 she became one of Utah's first licensed practical nurses.

Dates: 1978

Ashtanga Hridaya

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231190072]
Identifier: MSS 4149
Scope and Contents

An ancient medical textbook originally written in Sanskrit circa 400 AD and transcribed into Malayalam on palm leaves, circa 18th or 19th century. Consists of 100 leaves, 2 by 18 inches. Leaves one, two, and one hundred are blank, all others contain text written in small, neat hand in Malayalam, the Indian language spoken in Kerala. The manuscript is protected by two wooden teak boards and encased in a burlap bag.

Dates: 400-1900

Elvira Stevens Barney book papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230237031]
Identifier: MSS SC 263
Scope and Contents

Materials that were found in a book held by the Latter-day Saint Church Historical Department. Collection includes a greeting card, love letter, copy of a quote, and a short printed biography (photocopy).

Dates: 1892-1907

Wallace F. Bennett papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 20
Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, speeches, bills, legislative resolutions, press releases, and financial records that document Wallace F. Bennett's activities during his time as a senator between 1948 and 1974 in Utah and Washington D.C. The central topic of these materials (which were mostly created during Bennett's later terms in the US Senate) is the Cold War, including how to promote peaceful coexistence between the Soviet Union and America. They also reveal the immense changes that...
Dates: 1948-1984

John M. Bernhisel papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 331
Abstract

The Papers of John Milton Bernhisel includes three (3) archival series: Series I: Political Papers, circa 1847-1864; Series II: Personal Papers, circa 1825-1910; and Series III: Secondary Sources, circa 1909-1964.

Dates: approximately 1825-1964

Biography and obituary of Emma Bailey Gunnell

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341429]
Identifier: MSS 2639
Scope and Contents

Typed copies of a one-paragraph biography of Gunnell and of her obituary. Emma B. Gunnell was in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1943 to 1963. She served in field hospitals in Europe and in the Philippines. During the Korean War, she served in Hawaii. Gunnell achieved the rank of major.

Dates: 1993-2002

Biography of Beverly Rasband Dixon

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341486]
Identifier: MSS 2632
Scope and Contents

Typed Biography of Beverly Rasband Dixon. She was born in 1920 in Heber City, Utah, served as a nurse for the United States Navy during World War II, and was stationed at the Oak-knoll Naval Hospital in the Bay Area of California. She married Sheldon Schaerrer Dixon in 1946 and died in 2000.

Dates: approximately 2000

Biography of Leona Berg Campbell

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341494]
Identifier: MSS 2631
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Leona Berg Campbell. She graduated from the L.D.S. Hospital Nursing School in 1923. In 1943, she worked at the Topaz Japanese Relocation Camp outside Delta, Utah. The hospital she worked in was a modern facilty, and she enjoyed her assignment there.

Dates: 2002

Biography of Sophia Lewis Jewkes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230326495]
Identifier: MSS SC 2849
Scope and Contents

Typescript of the "History of Sophia Lewis Jewkes." The author of the item is unknown and the date of composition is uncertain. Sophia was a convert to the Mormon Church, a pioneer to Utah, and a nurse and a midwife in that state.

Dates: circa 1950

Ulrich R. Bryner papers

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230348374]
Identifier: MSS 1390
Scope and Contents

Glass photo slides, mementos, and biographical material pertaining to Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin. The collection includes a collection of 30 glass photo slides, comprised of 18 of Fleming's originals depicting his experiments to prove penicillin's value in 1928-9, 11 scenes Bryner took while on a family trip with the Flemmings in 1954, and one memento from Louis Pasteur's funeral.

Dates: 1928-1954