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Chicago Medical Society

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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Nathan Smith Davis III papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ghsl-35
Abstract

Professional papers of professor Nathan Smith Davis III, including material related to a departmental survey at the time of the medical school's move to the current campus, and to Davis's membership in the American Medical Association and the Clinical Section of the Chicago Heart Association.

Dates: 1922 - 1956

Louis E. Schmidt (1869-1957) Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 18/3/21/1
Abstract Dr. Louis E. Schmidt had a distinguished medical career as a medical educator and surgeon, but is best known for a stormy controversy involving his Illinois Social Hygiene League and medical advertising, which resulted in his expulsion from the Chicago Medical Society and the American Medical Association. The bulk of the papers relate to the expulsion controversy (1929-1930) but the collection also includes clippings, biographical files, and subject files reflecting Schmidt's interest in...
Dates: 1894-1957

Louis E. Schmidt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ghsl-28
Abstract

Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings compiled by Louis E. Schmidt on the topics of public health efforts to combat venereal disease in 1930s Chicago and Schmidt's expulsion from the Chicago Medical Society in 1929. Also includes a notebook kept by Schmidt while studying urology in Berlin in 1896.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1896, 1929-1938

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Education, Medical 1
Pathology--Study and teaching 1
Physicians 1
Public Health 1
Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1
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