Manuscript collection 2- George T. Harrell papers

Physical Description:   5.4 linear feet  (13 boxes) Arrangement note: Folders arranged in boxes generally by subject, except for box #13 which contains recent materials from Dr. Jean Lester Bennett, UF-COM, class of 1960 including photographs and correspondence.

Biographical Note:  Dr. George T. Harrell, born 1908, died August 26, 1999. He received his undergraduate and MD degrees from Duke, and did his residency there as well.  In 1941, he began work at the Bowman-Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest and remained there until he was employed by the University of Florida. He began work in Gainesville as UF-COM founding dean in 1954, although he earlier served on the Advisory Committee for the Health Center Study.  He resigned from the College of Medicine in 1964 and moved to Pennsylvania to become founding dean of Milton S. Hershey’s Medical Center at Pennsylvania State University.  He retired from Hershey in 1973 and moved to North Carolina where he pursued research on Osler.  His research interests were in infectious disease and he did extensive work on Rocky Mountain spotted fever.

Agency note:  Materials in the collection include professional papers and papers related to the UF-COM- founded by Harrell in Gainesville, Florida and opened for students in 1956.  Also material from Dr. Harrell’s earlier tenure at Bowman Gray.

Contents note: Contains research materials on infectious diseases, especially Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.  Also many files from Oak Ridge Institute for Nuclear Studies and some institutional files from Bowman Gray.

Box 1

  • American College of Physicians – Fall 1949
  • American College of Physicians – 1952-53
  • American Medical Association – Atlantic City, 1947
  • American Society for Clinical Investigation – 1947-51, “Young Turks”
  • Bowman Gray School of Medicine Advisory Committee – 1945
  • Bowman Gray Functional Nurses Station – 1950-52
  • Graylyn Medical Center Requirements for Departments
  • Graylyn Medical Center Planning for Diagnostic Clinic – 1950
  • Graylyn Medical Center Suggestions for space for Medical Service
  • Bowman Gray School of Medicine Report on first 5 Years of operation – 1945
  • Duke Alumni Meeting – April 1967
  • Duval Medical Society
  • Medical College of Virginia Richmond – 1967
  • National Institute of Health Antibiotics Study Section – 1947
  • North Carolina Medical Society Meeting – 1944-1950
  • North Carolina Medical Society – 1952 

Box 2

  • ORINS Correspondence – 1949
  • ORINS Correspondence – 1950
  • ORINS Correspondence – 1951
  • ORINS Correspondence – 1952
  • ORINS Correspondence – 1953
  • ORINS Correspondence, General
  • ORINS Board of Directors 16th meeting, 10/23/50
  • ORINS Board of Directors 17th Meeting – Dec. 18, 1950
  • ORINS Board of Directors 18th Meeting – March 29, 1951
  • ORINS Board of Directors 19th Meeting – June 29, 1951
  • ORINS Board of Directors 21st Meeting – December 14, 1951
  • ORINS Board of Directors 22nd Meeting – March 31, 1952
  • ORINS Board of Directors 23rd Meeting – June 16, 1952
  • ORINS Board of Directors 24th Meeting – October 22, 1952 

Box 3

  • ORINS Board of Directors 25th Meeting – February 3, 1953
  • ORINS Board of Directors 26th Meeting – May 8, 1953
  • ORINS Board of Directors 27th Meeting – October 12, 1953
  • ORINS Board of Medical Consultants – 1949-51
  • ORINS Medical Advisory Panel – 11/16/51
  • ORINS Training Course – February 1950-1951
  • ORINS Type “E” Consultanships – 1949-1950
  • Southern Medical Association, Baltimore Meeting  – 1947 (Folder one)
  • Southern Medical Association, Baltimore Meeting – 1947 (Folder two)
  • Southern Medical Association – 1948
  • Southern Medical Association Meeting – 1950
  • Southern Medical Association – 1953 

Box 4

  • Wilmington Medical Society – 1946
  • Winston – Salem Community, Council- Health Resources of City – 1949
  • Aikawa, Jerry K. Letter with reprints – 1953
  • Association of Multiple Venous Thrombosis & Carcinoma- 1950-51
  • Streptomycin Urinary Tract Infections – 1946-47
  • Swine Anemia – 40-41
  • Weltmann Paper Serum Coagulation – 1945-46
  • The Immune-Physiology of Serum Sickness
  • Immunophysiology of serum sickness Human Plasma Fractions Dr. Aikawa
  • Myxedema – Pericardial Effusion – Correspondence – 1941-43
  • Myxedema – Pericardial Effusion – Notes & Investigations 

Box 5

  • Myxedema Reflex Correspondence – 1941, 44-45, 47, 50-52
  • Myxedema Reflex Notes & Investigations
  • Myxedema Reflex Tracings
  • Myxedema Correspondence – 1951-53
  • Myxedema Notes & Investigations GTH- 1952
  • Myxedema in North Carolina Medical Journal – Notes and investigation – 1952
  • Myxedema Speech at Augusta Georgia – April 25, 1952
  • “Diagnosis and Control of Myxedema” in Modern Medicine – 5/1/52
  • Ocular Vaccine Correspondence – 1945
  • Ocular Vaccinia, Effect of Roentgen Ray Therapy – Correspondence & Drafts – 1945-46
  • Ocular Vaccinia, Abstract in Archives of Internal Medicine – 1947
  • Ocular Vaccinia, Results of Experiment 1
  • Ocular Vaccinia, Results of Experiment 2 

Box 6

  • Ocular Vaccinia X-Ray Experiment
  • Ocular Vaccinia, Experimental X-Ray treatments
  • Ocular Vaccinia, Vaccinia Method VCL
  • Photographs
  • Phthalysulfacetimide – 1951
  • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever – 1945
  • R.M.S. F. – 1946
  • RMSF, Correspondence – 1947
  • RMSF – 1947 – Notes 

Box 7

  • RMSF – Notes – 1948
  • RMSF 1949 – 1951
  • RMSF, “American Practitioner” – 1947
  • RMSF, “Current Therapy” 1952, article
  • RMSF, “Liver & Kidney Function in RMSF, Wolff & Harrell ‘49
  • RMSF Nelson’s loose leaf folder A
  • RMSF Nelson’s loose leaf folder B
  • RMSF Nelson’s loose leaf final draft 1950
  • RMSF Southern Medical Journal – ‘45
  • RMSF southern Medical Journal (Protein) – 1946
  • RMSF Effects on Central Nervous System Correspondence – 1952 

Box 8

  • RMSF Residual Effects of RMSF on the Central Nervous System – Drafts
  • Effects on Central Nervous System Supporting Material
  • RMSF Journal of AMA 1944-45
  • RMSF Treatment with antibiotics, 1952 – 1953
  • RMSF Chemistry Sareid, 1939-1942
  • RMSF Carmen Thomas’ Sarcoid (Discussion)
  • RMSF Generalized Sarceidosis – 6th, Bowan Gray Stu. J., 1945
  • Generalized Saroid, (Folder 1), 1946-1947
  • RMSF Generalized Saroid, (folder 11), 1939-1945
  • RMSF Sarcoid Data
  • Etiology of Baecks Sarcoid, RMSF, Sardid PPD, Cho, unpub. Cases (Folder one) 

Box 9

  • RMSF Sarciod PPD, Che, Unpub. Cases (Folder 11)  1938-1951
  • RMSF Sarcoid Photographs
  • RMSF Sarcoids-Geo. Harrell, 1950-52
  • RMSF J. Check’s Sarcoid, 1945
  • RMSF Autopsy Sarcoid
  • RMSF, Streptomycin, Southern Medical Journal, 1946-47
  • Sodeman, Pathologic Physiology, Drafts, Chapter I & II
  • Sodeman, Pathologic Physiology Draft, Chapter III
  • Sodeman, Pathologic Physiology Draft Chapter IV
  • Sodeman, Pathologic Physiology, final Copies Chapters I-IV
  • Sodeman, W.A.  Pathologic Physiology  Illustrations Chapt.  22-23
  • RMSF  Sprue Liver Experiment with Dr. Hanes
  • Bacterial Edocarditis, Subacute, (Folder I) 

Box 10

  • Bacterial Edocarditis (Folder II), 1952-1953
  • RMSF Streptomycin, 1946
  • Streptomycin follow-ups
  • Hoeber Book-Treatment of Generalized infection- G.T. Harrell Fall of 1949-1952
  • Hoeber Book- Infectious Diseases Correspondence, 1948-1950
  • Hoeber Book – Infectious Diseases, Chapter – Preliminary Drafts
  • Hoeber Book – Infectious Diseases, Chapter –First Draft
  • Hoeber Book – Treatment of Infectious diseases – Final Copy. 

Box 11

  • Trichinosis 5, 1946 notes
  • Trichinae, Mental vs. TBC folder 1, notes
  • Trichinae, Mental vs. Tbc. Folder11
  • RMSF TBC Phagocytosis Vitre
  • Dix Hill data 8/13-16/46-50
  • “The Immunophysiology of Trichinosis” Jerry K. Aikawa, George T. Harrell
  • Trichinosis – autopsy, 1937-38
  • “Trichinella Skin test in Hospital patients in N.C.”  S.F. Horne & B.T. Harrell, 1943-1944
  • Trichinella Skin Testing Prison & Orphanage, 1947
  • Trichinosis for current therapy, 1952
  • Trichinosis & Tuberculosis Skin reactivity – bkvine-rabbits, 1946-1947
  • RMSF Tropical Diseases in the returning soldier, 1944-1945
  • RMSF Tomexan – anticogulant
  • RMSF Atypical typhoid, 1941 

Box 12

  • The Role of Guanidine in the Therapy of Myasthnia Gravis, 1945-1947
  • Harrell, G.T., Bibliographic and Biographic Information
  • Correspondence Miscellaneous, 1945-53
  • Harrell, George T., M.D.
  • Dr. Fearringtons Typhus patients
  • Tuberculosis Phosphatide, 1944
  • Use and Abuse of Chemotherapy Charlotte – 1949
  • RMSF Miscellaneous Notes
  • RMSF Miscellaneous Notes and Charts. 

Box 13

  • Planning Medical Center Facilities, by George Harrell
  • Harrell, GT UF-Com, Reprinted from JFMA, Sept. 1957
  • Harrell, GT, The First Years of the UF COM
  • 1954 Harrell, COM-Basic Philosophy
  • 1954 Harrell An Exp. Interdisciplinary Coop
  • Robert Watson Local Binder
  • Reprints
  • Harrell Obituaries
  • Harrell Club From Florida Phys.- Winter 1994
  • Honor Roll from Florida Physician – Winter 1992
  • Bennett and Harrell with Note
  • Bennett Harrell Photo with Note (2)
  • Bennett Note re: Harrell Corres.
  • Harrell Club Brochure
  • Harrell-Bennett Correspondence
  • Bennett Correspondence Re: Spotted Fever Manuscript
  • Photos-Harrell and J.L. Bennett
  • Correspondence with Sherman Pace and JL Bennett, 1996