Title:

Letter from Alton Ochsner to Michael E. DeBakey

Creator:

Ochsner, Alton, 1896-1981

Recipient:

DeBakey, Michael E. (Michael Ellis), 1908-2008

Date:

11 September 1935

Description:

In this letter, Ochsner responded to his protege's first letters from France, where he was working with Dr. Rene Leriche for a year. The note about the "brown bath" refers to a humorous episode at a Paris hotel (recorded in DeBakey's diary of the trip) in which he inquired about a bath, and the waiter, not understanding DeBakey's French, asked "black or brown?" and then brought him a glass of beer.

Location:

Box: 5

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of John Ochsner.

Genre:

Letters (correspondence)

Format:

Text

Extent:

3 pages

Relation:

Diary kept en route to New York and France, 1935

Language:

English

Legacy ID:

FJBBMP

NLM ID:

101743405X199

Profiles Collection:

The Michael E. DeBakey Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X199

Story Section:

From Tulane School of Medicine to the U.S. Army, 1928-1946