Title:

Honorary consultants to the Army Medical Library

Date:

1950

Description:

Rear row standing: Dr. Edward H. Cushing, Admiral George W. Calver, Robert M. Stecher, Thomas E. Keys, Michael DeBakey, Major Frank B. Rogers. Dr. Cushing was the nephew of Dr. Harvey Cushing; Dr. Calver (1884-1972) was attending physician to the U.S. Congress from 1928-1966; Dr. Stecher (1896-1972) was a rheumatologist, medical library and museum advocate, and rare book collector; Thomas Keys was an assistant librarian at the Army Medical Library from 1942-1946, then librarian of the Mayo Clinic Library; Dr. Rogers (1914-1987) was director of the Army Medical Library (1949-1963) and guided its development into the National Library of Medicine.. Front row seated: Colonel Joseph H. McNinch, Dr. Wilburt C. Davison, Dr. Morris Fishbein, Dr. Chauncey D. Leake. Dr. McNinch was director of the Army Medical Library from 1946 to 1949, and also served as chief editor of the Medical History of World War II; Dr. Davison was the founding dean of Duke University's School of Medicine and its first chair of pediatrics; Dr. Fishbein (1889-1976) was editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association from 1924 to 1950; Dr. Leake (1896-1978) was an eminent pharmacologist, medical historian, and medical ethicist.

Original Repository:

The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection

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Genre:

Photographic prints

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. B05248

Legacy ID:

FJBBDQ

NLM ID:

101743405X53

Profiles Collection:

The Michael E. DeBakey Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101743405X53

Story Section:

Supporting the Medical Enterprise: DeBakey and National Library of Medicine