Scope and Contents note Photocopies of American Men of Medicine, 3rd edition with bio of Meleney; Smith's 1943 article in MCNA on Coccidioidomycosis; aum's 1958 bio of Samuel Taylor Darling; citation for Daniel and Baum's 2002 book "Drama and Discovery"; SMJ Jan 1934 giving program in Richmond for Dr. De and Katie Dodd; Histotechnology 1980 giving dates special stains available for histo; Sell's Appreciation of Histoplasmosis in 1989 SMJ; Schwarz and Baum's "Pioneers in the Discovery of Deep Fungus Diseases" in...

Scope and Contents note Photocopies of Darling's papers on histo from 1906, 1908, 1909; Riley and Watson's three papers in 1926 and ff. about a single case of histo; Portion of Castellani's book on Fungi and Fungous Diseases from 1927 with classification of histo; Williams and Cromartie's case of histo in Annals Int Med, 1940; Johnson and Batson's case of benign pulmonary histo in Diseases of Chest, 1948; uckett's series of pulm histo--22 cases studied with PAS, Amer Review of Tbc, 1953; Straub and Schwarz on...

Scope and Contents note History Collins summary of early cases of histo; Photocopies of Hansmann and Schenken's case of unusual fungal infection in Amer J Path, 1934;Collins summary of history of fungal infections from Mandell, 2000; Conant's study of histo in Jour Bact, 1941; Rhodes and Conant report of histo in 3 month old infant, Jour Peds, 1941; Meleney's papers on kala-azar, Amer Jour Path, 1925 with discussion of histo similarities and his 1940 paper on Histo with review of 32 cases in Amer Jour Trop Med,...

Scope and Contents note Copeis of Palmer's paper in Pub Health Reports, May, 1945-- Palmer had visited VU, reviewed Christie's work, and acknowledged this with the following statement--see page 520:"Special thanks also are due Dr. Amos Christie and Dr. J.C. Peterson of VUMS for specific suggestions regarding the clinical manifestations of histoplasmosis [obviously a misleading acknowledgment of their preliminary work on skin-testing in tuberculin negative cases]; Christie and Palmer's paper in Amer Jour Pub Health...

Scope and Contents note Restricted Patient Information Dr. Loyd wrote on the copy a note from Sally Sell about a baffled third year student viewing the histo organisms in peripheral blood film. Dr. Robert Buchanan recalled the same There are no notes from med students in the chart, and Dr. Tompkins in a note dated 11-21-32 describes their appearance in supravital--chart then describes organisms in blood film reported on 11-22. She also describessequence of events in a publication without mentioning med student....

Scope and Contents note Brief bio in Collins hand showing Meleney joined VU in 1928; social security death index showing death in Dec 1970; Partial bibliography of Meleney from grant application filed at VU; obituary of Meleney from Jour Parasitology 1971; various items of correspondence showing Meleney was Sec-Treasureer and then President of Amer Soc Trop Med while he was at VU; invitation by Meleney to Goodpasture to join Amer Soc Trop Med with Dr. Goodpasture declining; letter from Meleney to Dr. Henry Carter...