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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
Found in:
Northwestern University Archives
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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- Names: Schmidt, Louis E. (Louis Ernst), 1869-1957 X
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