7c. Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania GI Clinic correspondence re contributions, 1930-1931
File — Box: 5, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This collection contains biographical and genealogical information,
correspondence with individuals and institutions, addresses,
writings, photographs, and awards, certificates and diplomas,
1890-1981, documenting T. Grier Miller's life, interests, and
career, particularly his gastroenterological research at the
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Major correspondents in the collection are: William Bennett Bean, T. H. Boon, W. Russell Brain, Katharine O'Shea Elsom, Abraham Flexner, Franz J. Ingelfinger, Thomas E. Machella, William S. Middleton, George Richards Minot, Walter L.jPalmer, Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper, Isidore S. Ravdin, Otho B. Ross, Nanna Svartz, and William B. Terhune. There is also a file of correspondence concerning Miller's use of ephedrine to control asthma in the 1920s. Institutional correspondence files document Miller's work with the American College of Physicians; College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in particular the development of its Building Fund and a 1934 meeting concerning state sponsored medicine; International Society of Internal Medicine and arrangements for the Fifth International Congress of Internal Medicine, held in Philadelphia in 1958; and the Silver Hill Foundation for the Treatment of Psychoneuroses.
The collection also includes typescripts of several of Miller's addresses, many concerning intestinal intubation or cancer of the colon; a small collection of photographs of Miller's colleagues; and some miscellaneous items, including letters to Frank C. Brown, former husband of Mary Henkel Miller, from Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, John K. Mitchell, and Owen Wister, and Miller's examination of the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, in 1949.
Major correspondents in the collection are: William Bennett Bean, T. H. Boon, W. Russell Brain, Katharine O'Shea Elsom, Abraham Flexner, Franz J. Ingelfinger, Thomas E. Machella, William S. Middleton, George Richards Minot, Walter L.jPalmer, Oliver Hazard Perry Pepper, Isidore S. Ravdin, Otho B. Ross, Nanna Svartz, and William B. Terhune. There is also a file of correspondence concerning Miller's use of ephedrine to control asthma in the 1920s. Institutional correspondence files document Miller's work with the American College of Physicians; College of Physicians of Philadelphia, in particular the development of its Building Fund and a 1934 meeting concerning state sponsored medicine; International Society of Internal Medicine and arrangements for the Fifth International Congress of Internal Medicine, held in Philadelphia in 1958; and the Silver Hill Foundation for the Treatment of Psychoneuroses.
The collection also includes typescripts of several of Miller's addresses, many concerning intestinal intubation or cancer of the colon; a small collection of photographs of Miller's colleagues; and some miscellaneous items, including letters to Frank C. Brown, former husband of Mary Henkel Miller, from Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, John K. Mitchell, and Owen Wister, and Miller's examination of the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, in 1949.
Dates
- 1930-1931
Extent
From the Collection: 3.5 Linear feet (8 boxes and 1 oversize folder )
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Miller, T. Grier (Thomas Grier) (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
Contact:
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org
