Herman L. Kretschmer papers

Personal and professional papers of Herman L. Kretschmer, a graduate of Northwestern University Pharmacy (PhG 1900) and Medical (MD 1904) Schools and pioneering urologist and surgeon. Mainly consists of 107 bound manuscripts of Kretschmer's writings, both typescript with manuscript corrections and fully handwritten, as well as 13 notebooks kept by Kretschmer as a student at Northwestern and while doing postgraduate study in Vienna and Berlin. The collection also includes a memorial plaque and the catalog cards for the Herman L. Kretschmer Collection of rare books, which were transferred to the library's rare book collection at the time of donation.

Collection also includes restricted records related to the circa 1947 surgical treatment of a woman for cysts on her kidney by physicians including Kretschmer, Tate Mason of Seattle, Earle R. Hall of Vancouver, and those at the Mayo Clinic, between 1943 and 1951. This includes correspondence related to her inability to pay Kretschmer's bill for surgery.