Special Collections
Other special collections accompany the archives, personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, theses, incunabula, rare books and journals, classical works, Seidel, and instrument collections. They include approximately 40 painted portraits, a selection of prints and caricatures on medical subjects, various realia, and notable individual documents.
Thomas Addis (1881-1949) Professor of Medicine, 1914-1945, Stanford University School of Medicine. Addis conducted research and wrote on hemophilia, diabetes mellitus, urobilin, hemoglobin pigment metabolism, and most prolifically on the kidney and Bright's disease. He studied the effects of nutritional change on organ tissue and is known for Addis' count test or the Wilbur-Addis test. This portrait was painted by Marion C. Raulston. Lane also holds Addis' papers
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Levi Cooper Lane's examination table (c.1860) and desk with portrait and bust of Lane. Examination table donated to Lane Archives by Anne Ellinwood, March 2006.
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Letter. Edward Jenner (1749-1823) English physician who discovered vaccination.
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In the letter from Jenner to long-time friend Thomas Frognall Dibdin, an antiquarian and bibliophile, Jenner discusses the state of opposition to his discoveries.
P.S. I have just rec'd from Madrid the most interesting Document that has ever reach'd me on the Vaccine subject. It cowmes in the form of "Supplemento a la Gazette de Madrid" and gives a detail'd account of an expedition fitted out by order of his Catholic Majesty for the sole purpose of propagating the Vaccine in all his foreign Possessions & many other parts of the world. The Expedition sail'd in 1803 & returned in 1806. I will send you a copy of the Gazette & a translation. I don't imagine the annals of history furnish an example of philanthropy so noble, so extensive, as this.
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