Henry Murfree Carney Collection
Scope and Contents
Nineteen audio casette recordings of Dr Henry Murfree Carney recollecting his life and medical career including medical school, surgical residency training, and service in the Vanderbilt 300th General Hospital medical unit.
Dates
- Creation: 1920-1998
Conditions Governing Access
All collections are subject to applicable Vanderbilt University privacy and confidentiality policies. Collection specific restrictions: No Restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is retained by History of Medicine Collections, Eskind Biomedical Library, Vanderbilt University or is retained by the authors of specific published items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Biographical / Historical
Henry M. Carney was born in Murfreesboro, TN August 29, 1908. He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt in 1929, and M.D.in 1933. He served his surgical residency at Vanderbilt, working with Dr. Barney Brooks and Dr. Alfred Blalock. When the United States entered World War II, Dr. Carney joined the Vanderbilt unit, the 300th General Hospital of the U.S. Medical Army Corps. Major Carney served as a surgeon with this unit, which was headquartered in Naples, Italy. While in Italy he became fluent in Italian and at the end of the war escorted several movie stars who came overseas to entertain the troops. After the war, Dr. Carney moved to Texarkana, Texas, where he and another Vanderbilt graduate, Dr. Spencer Allen Collom, started a clinic. Dr. Carney remained in Texarkana for the remainder of his career, where he was a beloved physician and member of the community. In retirement, Dr. Carney devoted much time to recording his memoirs of medical school days and his adventures in World War II for the Historical Collection in the Eskind Biomedical Library.He died in Texarkana on September 11, 2003.
Full Extent
0.37 Cubic Feet (One Hollinger box.)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Audio Recordings of Henry Murfree Carney describing his life including medical school, surgical residency training, and service in the Vanderbilt 300th General Hospital Medical Unit.
Physical Location
EBL Vault
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Dr. Henry M. Carney who began making these recordings in the 1990s and would send them periodically as he completed them.
Processing Information
Collection is unproessed. Cassettes are retained in cases with some containing notes briefly descrbing their content.
- Title
- Henry Murfree Carney Collection
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- History of Medicine Collections Staff
- Date
- 2021-10-28
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the History of Medicine Manuscripts Collection Repository
Eskind Biomedical Library
2209 Garland Ave.
Nashville TN 37232
historyofmedicine@vanderbilt.edu
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