Finding Aid for Collections of Personal Papers, Manuscripts, and Photographs

Contents: William J. and William E. Ayling -- Mary Burnham -- Central New York Health Systems Agency -- Henry Saverio DiStefano -- Arthur D. Ecker -- Harry A. Feldman -- Jerome F. Fredrick -- Syracuse Free Dispensary -- U.S. Army 52nd General Hospital -- Norman L. Woodford -- Chester L. Yntema

Ayling, William James, M.D., 1858-1924;
Ayling, William Elmer, M.D., 1893-1984

Memorabilia.

Dr. William J. Ayling was a member of the Syracuse University College of Medicine Class of 1882. His son, Dr. William E. Ayling, was a member of the Syracuse University College of Medicine Class of 1918.

Mary D. Burnham Collection

Collection ID: pc.002
Acc. #: 2007.003
Gift of Nellie Burnham, grandaughter of Mary Burnham.

Photographs, reports, and newspaper articles - 1 box (8 folders). 24 photographs, 7 ephemeral items, and 1 ms. document.

Mary D. Burnham, Deaconness, was House Mother and Treasurer of the House of the Good Shepherd (later Hospital of the Good Shepherd), founded in 1872. See related materials filed under "House of the Good Shepherd" in Historical-Biographical Files. The date range of the materials in the collection is the mid 1870s through about 1915.

Photographs include hospital patients Annie Crouch and Lottie Woodruff; Mary D. Burnham; Bishop Frederick Dan Huntington; and nurses and Cental New York Womens' Auxiliary: Sister Julia Percival, Sister Gloriana F. Mussey, Sister Bertha Sabine, Miss Jackson, Sister Mary J. Martin, Sister Elizabeth Van Gordon, Sister Frances Freeman, Sister Adelaide (Barrows).

There are Annual Reports of the hospital from 1878 and 1880 (see Historical-Biographical file for other years) and undated Regulations. There is also a 5 page manuscript "Rules for the House of the Good Shepherd." There are also newspaper clippings of annual reports, and columns written for the newspaper by Mary Burnham, "The Children's Col."

Central New York Health Systems Agency (CNYHSA)

Archives.

CNYHSA is a quasi-private, partially state-funded organization founded in 1976 and headquartered in Syracuse. According to its mission statement, it serves Cayuga, Cortland, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, St. Lawrence, and Tompkins Counties "to promote development of health care services, improved access to care, and community health improvement through collaboration, research, data collection, and analysis."

In September 1999 CNYHSA began to deposit its archives for safekeeping at the Upstate Health Sciences Library as an indefinite loan. These archives consist mainly of the internally produced documents of CYNHSA and its predecessors from the late 1960s to the present. This collection is now 41 shelf feet, but additional documents may be added. There is no inventory, but the original shelving order is preserved.

DiStefano, Henry Saverio

Offprints (donated by the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology).

Ecker, Arthur David, M.D., Ph.D., 1913-

Research files.

This collection consists of about 60 shelf feet of offprints, tearsheets, correspondence, typescripts, papers, holograph notes, etc., used by Dr. Ecker in his professional work as an internationally known neurosurgeon and neurologist. In a clinical career of over 55 years, Dr. Ecker published two books and over 120 papers, pioneered several important neurosurgical techniques, made several neuroanatomical and neurophysiological discoveries, and was a key player in bringing cerebral angiography to America in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

These are not his patient records.

Dr. Ecker arranged the files according to his own finely specified, multi-level decimal system, based on the military medical subject classification system. He laid out his system fully in a three-ring binder notebook, which is part of the collection, and listed the contents in 94 drawer inches of 4 x 6 index cards, which are also part of the collection. The top-level outline of the classification system is as follows:

I. Neurosurgery: brain.

0. Neurosurgery in general.
1. Abscess.
2. [blank]
3. Vascular lesions of brain and cord in general.
4. Head injuries.
5. Hydrocephalus and increased intracranial pressure in general.
6. Inflammation and degeneration.
7. Operative details (including electrical damage to CNS).
8. Echo-encephalogram in general.
9. Cerebral and cranial veins and dural venous disease.
10. Skull and radiology in general.
11. Scalp and skull tumors and other problems.
12. Subdural hematoma and hydroma in adults in general (including non-surgical Rx).
13. [blank]
14. Tumors of brain in general.
15. Cerebral cysts.
16. Infratentorial tumors in general.
17. Pituitary tumors in general.
18. Supratentorial tumors, general hemispherectomy for tumors.
19. Ventriculographic and encephalographic studies and ventricular drainage.
20. Plain films.
21. Metabolic changes and renal changes after concussion.
22. Neurosurgical Rx of mental diseases in general, including indications.
23. Cerebrospinal rhinorrhea.
24. Electroencephalography in general.

II. Neurosurgery: spinal cord and peripheral nerves.

0. Spinal surgery in general.
1. Surgical relief of pain.
2. Spinal abscess, including epidural and subdural abscess and pachymeningitis.
3. Bladder paralysis in general.
4. Fracture and dislocation of spine.
5. Hypertrophic and rheumatoid backache, osteo-arthritis, and spondylitis.
6. X-ray studies of the spine.
7. Myelography.
8. Osteomyelitis of vertebrae and other forms of spondylitis.
9. Spina bifida and other myelodysplasias and dysraphic states.
10. Spinal cord and caudal tumors.
11. Spinal puncture.
12. [blank]
13. [blank]
14. Brachial plexus injuries.
15. Cervical ribs and subclavian vessel problems.
16. Facial paralysis and spasm.
17. Glomus tumors.
18. Nerve degeneration and regeneration.
19. Nerve tumors.
20. Peripheral nerve injuries and entrapment in general.
21. Peroneal palsy, including foot drop.
22. [blank]
23. Ulnar palsy.
24. Paraplegia in general.

III. Peripheral blood vessels and autonomic nervous system and blood vessels.

0. General.
1. [blank]
2. Carotid body and sinus.
3. Arteriosclerosis in general.
4. Blood pressure.
5. Hypertension in general.
6. Phlebitis, thrombosis in general, and pulmonary embolism.
7. Raynaud's disease and psychosomatic aspects.
8. Arterial physiology in general.
9. [blank]
10. Vasomotor drugs.
11. Thromboangiitis and arteriosclerosis obliterans and lumbar sympathectomy.
12. Stellate ganglion block and cervicosympathetic block for cerebral conditions, for hand-shoulder syndrome, reflex sympathetica dystrophy of upper extremity, and axillary sympathectomy.
13. Surgery of arteries.
14. Embolization, deliberate.

IV. Ophthalmology (including neuro-ophthalmology).

0. [blank]
1. Anatomy of the eyeball, lids, and orbit; neuroanatomy of vision.
2. Ocular signs of psychogenic disorders.
3. Neuro-ophthalmic examinations of children.
4. Eyeglasses, including low-vision aids (including seeing eye dogs), and eye strain.
5. Diseases of the orbit, especially tumors.
6. Diseases of the choroid and retina.
7. Diseases of the optic nerve and chiasm in general.
8. Cerebral cortical blindness and related functional problems.
9. Orbit.
10. Nystagmus and oculovestibular relationships, including vestibular tests, neuroanatomy, etc.
11. Strabismus and diplopia, including neuroanatomy of ocular muscle and eye muscle palsies, including supranuclear and internuclear ophthalmoplegia.
12. Neuroanatomy and neurophysiology of pupils and cornea.
13. Diseases of visual perception and conception.
14. Cataracts and surgery (adjustment to aphakia).
15. Lacrimal gland disorders, including Sjögren's syndrome.
16. Exophthalmos.
17. Ocular manifestations of diseases of the nervous system, including cortical blindness.
18. Ocular manifestations of psychosomatic diseases and psychiatric aspects of blindness, including hysteria and quasi-hysteria.
19. Self-exam of fundus.
20. Warner's syndrome (juvenile cataracts, premature aging, atrophic dermatosis, trophic ulceration of legs, multiple endocrine abnormalities).

V. Neurology, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neuropathology.

0. Pain.
1. Neuroanatomy.
2. Cerebro-spinal fluid.
3. Neurophysiology.
4. Neuropathology.
5. Methods of examination.
6. Cranial nerves.
7. Peripheral nerves, including neuralgias
8. Spinal cord.
9. Brain stem, mid-brain, pons, medulla, thalamus.
10. Cerebellar syndromes.
11. Muscular dysfunctions in general.
12. AIDS.
13. Phenylketonuria and related inborn errors of metabolism.
14. Epilepsy, medical aspects in general.
15. Aphasia, apraxia and other problems of speech, and unilateral dominance and visual agnosia.
16. Bacterial and viral infections of CNS.
17. Neurosyphilis.
18. Neurologic complications of other conditions.
19. Sudden death due to CNS.
20. Neural (and other systemic) signs in cancer.
21. [blank]
22. Herpes viruses.
23. Familial dysautonomia.
24. Serum hyperviscosity syndrome, including macroglobulinemia.
25. Homocystinuria.
26. Neurological disabilities statistically.
27. Immunologic disorders of nervous system in carcinoma, including amyloidosis, sarcoidosis, ataxia, telanglectasia, Behcet's syndrome.
28. Geography of neurology.
29. Law of Laplace.
30. Brain transplants.
31. Plasmapheresis.
32. Lyme disease.

VI. General medicine (including therapy in same) and medical complications of surgical cases (including neurologic complications).

0. Internal medicine in general.
1. [blank]
2. Blood.
3. Body temperature, including hyperthermia.
4. Hypersensitivity reactions.
5. Diet and nutrition.
6. Gall bladder and jaundice.
7. Gastro-intestinal in general.
8. Heart.
9. Infective endocarditis.
10. Kidneys.
11. Liver.
12. Fever.
13. Chest and lungs.
14. [blank]
15. [blank]
16. [blank]
17. Skin and nails.
18. [blank]
19. [blank]
20. [blank]
21. [blank]
22. Drugs.
23. Allergy.
24. Pediatrics.
25. Geriatrics and chronic illness.
26. Genetics and heredity.
27. Immunology and neurology.
28. Laboratory data.
29. [blank]
30. [blank]
31. [blank]
32. Decision tables.
33. Occupational medicine.

VII. Endocrinology.

0. In general.
1. Adrenal.
2. Pancreas.
3. Parathyroid and calcium.
4. Pineal.
5. Pituitary in general.
6. [blank]
7. Thyroid in general, including hyperthyroidism.
8. Testis.
9. Ovary.

VIII. General surgery.

0. In general.
1. Shock.
2. Transfusion.
3. Injuries.
4. Blast injuries.
5. Infections.
6. Antibiotics in general.
7. High altitude cerebral edema.
8. Surgery of hand.
9. Obstetrics.
10. Orthopedic surgery.
11. Age changes in human bone.
12. [blank]
13. Coordination and exercise in general.
14. Electrical stimulation.
15. Plastic surgery.
16. Neurological complications of transplants.

IX. Radioactivity, radiotherapy, and cancer research.

0. [blank]
1. [blank]
2. Radiation carcinogenesis.
3. [blank]
4. [blank]
5. Radiotherapy.
6. Atomic bomb casualties, especially radiation.
7. Nuclear medicine in general, including brain conditions.
8. [blank]
9. [blank]
10. Research in cancer.
11. [blank]
12. Hodgkin's disease.
13. Multiple myeloma.
14. Cancer of prostate.

X. Psychiatry.

0. In general, including patient-physician relationship.
1. Psychiatric research.
2. Hysteria.
3. Traumatic neurosis.
4. Depression.
5. Psychosomatic.
6. [blank]
7. [blank]
8. [blank]
9. [blank]
10. [blank]
11. [blank]
12. [blank]
13. [blank]
14. Neuropsychology.
15. Recreational drugs.
16. [blank]
17. [blank]
18. Alcoholism.
19. Sexual problems in medicine.
20. Mental retardation.
21. [blank]
22. [blank]
23. [blank]
24. [blank]
25. [blank]
26. [blank]
27. [blank]
28. Hypnosis.
29. Recovery.
30. Biofeedback.
31. Antischizophrenic agents.
32. Electroshock.
33. Insanity as legal defense.

XI. Talks.

A. Talks other than stroke.
B. Talks on strokes, microcirculation.
C. Interesting old neurosurgical reprints.
D. Interesting old neurological reprints.
E. Interesting old other reprints.
F. Old EEG.
1. Iontophoresis.
2. Transdermal drugs.

XII. Medical history and biography.

0. [blank]
1. Syracuse.
2. Medical history in general.
3. History of neurosurgery (except individual men).
4. Harvey Cushing.
5. Other neurosurgeons.
6. History of science and other topics (including geography).
7. Medical history, non-neurological.
8. General history from medical viewpoint.
9. Military medicine and surgery.
10. Dartmouth.
11. Medicine in other countries (including medical geography)
12. Photographs and drawings of men.
13. Current medical history.
14. Medical stamps.
15. Art and medicine.
16. Archeology.
17. Mexican medicine.

XIII. Medical writing, lantern slides, teaching, and research.

0. [blank]
1. Medical journals and writing.
2. Medical libraries and reference material.
3. Medical etiquette.
4. Lantern slides.
5. Medical photography.
6. Medical motion pictures.
7. Medical illustrations (drawings), art and medicine.
8. Medical statistics.
9. Public speaking and pronunciation of medical terms (and origin of medical words), including radio and TV.
10. Medical humor and abbreviations.
11. Scientific exhibits.
12. Electronic data processing and computers.
13. Medical teaching in general.
14. Indexing medical articles.
15. Neurosurgical courses.
16. Research funds.
17. Research on animals.
18. Research in general.

XIV. Thermography.

0. Thermography in general.
1. Roots.
2. Peripheral nerves.
3. Reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
4. Spinal cord.
5. Other neurologic conditions.
6. Headache and carotid insufficiency.
7. Vascular disorders of limbs.
8. Soft tissue trauma.
9. Pain.
10. Legal aspects.
11. Financial.
12. Scrotum.

XV. Sensory neurophysiology.

0. Pain in general.
1. Somatosensory mechanism in general.
2. Trigeminal receptors in general.
3. Peripheral nerves in general.
4. Trigeminal and facial nerve systems.
5. Trigeminal root.
6. Descending tract and nuclei.
7. Reticular formation.
8. Cortical representation of face.
9. Neuroplasticity in the CNS.
10. Aging and the nervous system.
11. Epilepsy, action of anticonvulsants.
12. Cell membranes.
13. Tegretol bibliography.
14. General biology, including DNA history.
15. Cell organelles.
16. Blood brain barrier.

XVI. Medical economics, medico-legal, veterans' care, socialized medicine.

0. [blank]
1. General proposals about medical economics.
2. [blank]
3. Office practice and taxes.
4. [blank]
5. [blank]
6. Auto.
7. [blank]
8. Rehabilitation -- general.
9. Disability evaluation (including psychiatric).
10. [blank]
11. Worker's compensation.
12. HMO's.
13. [blank]
14. Medico-legal in general.
15. Chiropractic.
16. Recertification.

XVII.

XVIII. Anesthesia and anoxia.

0. [blank]
1. Anesthesia in general.
2. General anesthesia, inhalation.
3. [blank]
4. [blank]
5. Regional anesthesia (including technique).
6. Anoxia of nervous system in general.
7. [blank]
8. [blank]
9. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and artificial respiration.
10. Drugs and behavior, including psychotherapeutic drugs.
11. Thorazine.

XIX. Medical libraries (and care of books).

XXI.

In the process of transferring this collection from the original acidic manila file folders in metal file cabinets to acid-free file folders in acid-free, light-proof, dust-proof archival document cases, Dr. Ecker's own division and numbering of each folder was preserved. Nothing was rearranged. None of his smaller folders were combined and none of his larger folders were broken up into smaller ones. The collection exists in the Library essentially as it did in Dr. Ecker's home and office when he was using it for writing and research.

The Library also has in Historical Collections copies of Dr. Ecker's curriculum vitae, his bibliography, and most of his published works.

Feldman, Harry Alfred, M.D., 1914-1985.

Papers, correspondence, reprints, glass slides, artifacts, and realia (donated by Mrs. Harry A. Feldman)

Dr. Feldman was internationally recognized for his contributions to research in preventive medicine, epidemiology, immunology, infectious disease control, toxoplasmosis, bacterial chemotherapeutic and sero-therapeutic agents, respiratory diseases, and meningitis.

Extent: 96 document boxes; 4 v.; 4 file drawers; 3 boxes (slides); 3 objects. Approx. 61 linear ft.
Contents include:

Artifacts and realia.

Ceramic apothecary jar: "sodii nitris." (shelved with medical instruments collection)
Glass slides (2 boxes).
Light box, manufactured by Albert Specialty Company, Chicago.
Pathology slides, 35 mm. (1 box).

Correspondence and studies with various drug companies (1 box).
Drug and clinical trials (4 boxes).
Epidemiology course teaching materials (4 v.).
Extramural committees (19 boxes).
Intramural committees (4 boxes).
Israel (1 box).
Journals (2 boxes).
Meetings (5 boxes).
Meningococcus correspondence (1 box).
Miscellaneous correspondence (2 boxes).
Patient records (6 boxes;1 metal file box of index cards).
Personal correspondence (13 boxes).

Adantech, Kidane Mariam.
Apicella, Michael A.
Appelbaum, Peter C.
Artenstein, Malcolm.
Austrian, Robert.
Belcher, Donald.
Benenson, Abram S.
Bennett, John.
Berg, Robert L.
Bernstein, Stanley H.
Beverley, J.K.A.
Blair, Donald C.
Block, Colin.
Bornstein, Donald L.
Brachman, Philip S.
Bukantz, Samuel C.
Burger, P.J.
Chanock, Robert.
Clark, Duncan.
Cobb, Sidney.
Cooper, Louis Z.
Cvjetanovic, B.
Dammin, Gustave J.
Denny, Floyd W.
Desmonts, Georges.
Deuschle, Kurt W.
De Vries, A.
Dingle, John H.
Dowling, Harry F.
Dubey, J.P.
Eickhoff, Theodore C.
Etienne, Jean.
Evans, Alfred S.
Edwards, Earl A.
Fallon, Ronald J.
Feldman, Roger.
Feldman, Ronald A.
Finland, Maxwell A.
Frasch, Carl.
Fraser, David W.
Frenkel, Jack.
Friedlaender, Sidney.
Frisch, Arthur W.

Gear, James H.S.
George Washington University.
Gertzog, Jack.
Gotschlich, Emil.
Greenwald, James L.
Greenwood, Brian M.
Griffiss, J. McLeod.
Grove, Stephen S.
Hanks, John H.
Hansman, David.
Harris, William A.
Henderson, Maureen.
Henry, John B.
Hill, Rolla B.
Hilleman, Maurice R.
Holmes, King K.
Holz, George.
Horstmann, Dorothy.
Houser, Harold B.
Hutt, Gunnel.
Hutchison, W.M.
Jackson, George Gee.
Jacobs, Leon.
Jordan, William S.
Kass, Edward.
Kalter, S.S.
Kilbourne, Edwin D.
Koornhof, H.J.
Kravetz, Howard M.
Krugman, Saul.
Kuller, Lewis.
Lancefield, Rebecca.
Langmuir, Alexander.
Lerner, A. Martin.
Lilienfeld, Abraham.
Lozner, Eugene L.
McMillan, Julia.
Madoff, Morton A.
Metz, J.
Meyer, Harry M., Jr.
Monto, Arnold S.
Most, Harry.
Muller-Eberhard, Hans J.

Ndlovu, Sikhanyiso Duke.
Neter, Erwin.
Norden, Carl W.
Osborn, June E.
Oseasohn, Robert.
Oski, Frank.
Paul, John R.
Payne, Francis E.
Poskanzer, David C.
Prowda, Ralph L.
Prywes, Moshe.
Rammelkamp, Charles H.
Remington, Jack S.
Roberts, Edward F.
Robbins, John B.
Ronald, Allan.
Ruben, Frederick L.
Rutstein, David.
Sabin, Albert B.
Sanford, Jay P.
Schaeffer, Morris.
Schreiber, Robert.
Schuman, Leonard M.
Seligman, Hans.
Siim, J. Christian.
Simon, Harold J.
Smadel, Joseph E.
Sorenson, A.A.
South Africa (correspondence with various individuals)
Terris, Milton.
Valero, Aaron.
Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Walls, Eldred.
Warren, Joel.
Wehrle, Paul F.
Weiner, Leonard B.
Weller, Thomas H.
Williams, William J.
Wolff, L. Thomas.
Wolff, Sheldon M.
Woods, D.D.
Woodward, Theodore E.

Personal papers (3 boxes).
Reprints.

Feldman's publications (3 boxes).
Meningococcus (9 boxes).
Miscellaneous (3 boxes).
Toxoplasmosis (15 boxes).

Rough drafts of published manuscripts (4 boxes).
Societies and organizations (2.5 drawer feet).
Studies and correspondence, mostly toxoplasmosis, 1950- (3 drawer feet).
Toxoplasmosis correspondence (1 drawer foot).
Unpublished studies, mostly toxoplasmosis, 1940s-1950s (2 drawer feet).
Various studies, more recent (3 drawer feet).

Dr. Feldman's own arrangement of his files has been preserved. The collection exists in the Library essentially as it did in Dr. Feldman's office when he was using it for writing and research.

Fredrick, Jerome F., Ph.D., 1926-1995.

Offprints, obituary, dissertations (donated by Miriam M. Fredrick, Chester Machlin, and Dinita Machlin)

Dr. Fredrick was a cell biologist who made significant contributions to enzyme chemistry, cancer research, infectious disease research, and public health.

Contents include:

"A Theory as to the Evolution of the Algae Based upon the Enzymes Responsible for the Synthesis of Storage Polysaccharides from Hexose Monophosphate" (dissertation, Department of Biology, New York University, January 1952).
"Evolution of the Mechanism for Polysaccharide Synthesis in the Algae with Regard to Studies of Enzyme Systems in Normal and Variant Types of Oscillatoria Princeps" (dissertation, Department of Biology, New York University, June 1955).
Offprints, complete set, some as photocopies, collected by Miriam M. Fredrick, wife of Dr. Fredrick.
Joseph Seckbach, "Obituary and Legacy of Jerome F. Fredrick."

Endocytobiosis and cell research

Syracuse Free Dispensary

Manuscript records and internal documents of the Syracuse Free Dispensary, incorporated July 17, 1888; located at 208 South Warren Street from September 5, 1888 to 1897, at 407 South Warren from 1897 to 1904, at 506 South Warren from 1904 to 1914, at 610 East Fayette Street from 1914 to May 31, 1957, and on the 6th floor of the State Building at 333 East Washington Street from June 10, 1957 to 196_; affiliated with Syracuse University College of Medicine in 1914; dropped the word "Free" from its name in 1948; closed 196_.

Contents include:

Admission log, 1903-1916.
Annual reports, 1897-1930, 1932-1934, 1936.
Articles of incorporation; constitution; by-laws; minutes of the board of trustees, 1888-1893.
Cash accounts, 1903-1906.
Clinic reports, 1919-1930.
Heart Clinic reports, 1932-1935.
Inventory, March 1901.
Joint Administrative Committee minutes, 1948-1949.
Minutes of the board of trustees, 1931-1958.
Miscellanea.
Monthly reports, 1922-1937.
Patient records, 1891-1898.
Physicians' attendance reports, 1922-1937.
Study of economic conditions of patients admitted, 1929.
Treasurer's reports, 1897-1924.

U.S. Army 52nd General Hospital

Memorabilia (donated by Col. Richard S. Farr, M.D.; Major Eugene Anthony, M.D.; Major David W. Brewer, M.D.; Major Arthur D. Ecker, M.D., Ph.D.; Major Max Kutzer, M.D.; Major John Rowlingson, M.D.; Paul Berman, M.D.; Jan Richard Farr, esq.; Deborah Rowlingson McBee; Mrs. E.D. Parker; Diana Rowlingson; John Rowlingson, Jr.; Peter Rowlingson; Syracuse University Archives; Norman L. Tilt; Michael Webster; Jo Grant; British Broadcasting Corporation; Barbara L. Harris, R.N., Ph.D.)

Contents include:

Col. Richard S. Farr, M.D. Papers and correspondence, both official and personal (3 boxes).
Col. Richard S. Farr, M.D. Medical instruments (7), business cards, prescription pad, notebook, brochure (3 boxes).
2nd Lt. Winifred Paul Johnson, Army Nurse Corps. Diary. 4 v. (v. 1, Nov. 13, 1942 - May 5, 1943; v. 2, May 6, 1943 - July 20, 1943; v. 3, July 21, 1943 - Jan. 21, 1944; v. 4, Jan. 22, 1944 - Dec. 4, 1944).

Partial transcript of diaries prepared by Barbara L. Harris, R.N., Ph.D., May 2004.

Photographs.
Cpl. Fitzgerald. Poster for "First Anniversary Dance," January 25, 1944.
Recording of August 21, 1943 BBC / WSYR radio broadcast featuring Art Feldman, Lt. Col. Richard S. Farr, M.D., Capt. Ivy Wadsworth, A.N.C., and Sgt. Wagoner.
Certificate from the Surgeon General of the Army.
Brochures and posters from the First Health Sciences Library Lecture, "The Fightin' 52nd," October 5, 1996.
Wooden plaque, 31" x 18", "In honor of members of the staff of University Hospital of the Good Shepherd who have joined the armed forces of our country," with list of 39 names.
News articles (1 box).
16 mm. silent movie shot mostly by Col. Farr, mostly at camp near Kidderminster, England; with 1/2-inch video transcription of this movie.
Photocopies of papers of the 52nd General Hospital kept in the National Archives and Records Administration.
"My Father's Letters: A World War II Surgeon," by Paul Berman [story about Leon Berman], computer printout, 23 pages text and [8] pages bibliography.
Baseball signed by members of the 52nd's baseball team.
Videotape of BBC Midlands Today broadcast, November 2003, reported by Jo Grant.
Photocopies of some of Mike Webster's research, November 2003.

Woodford, Norman L, M.D., 1898-1985.

Records (donated by Norma W. Ziegler and Emily McArdle)

Dr. Woodford, a member of the Syracuse University College of Medicine Class of 1921, practiced general medicine and occupational medicine in Union Springs, Cayuga County, New York. After 1924 he served as Health Officer for several jurisdictions in Cayuga County, including the towns of Aurelius, Sennett, Springport, and Union Springs; and as Secretary of the Consolidated Health District of Springport and Union Springs.

The collection is about 5.5 shelf feet. Contents include:

Physician's business records, 1923-1982, in 9 original marbled cardboard file boxes, 31 cm. x 30 cm. x 8 cm.
Day book of E.G. Fish, M.D., Union Springs, New York, 1908-1914, 30 cm. x 16 cm. x 3 cm.
Record Book of the Health Officer, Union Springs, Springport, Cayuga County, 1916-1932, bound in half morocco, 29 cm.
Record Book of the Health Officer, Springport, Union Springs, Cayuga County, 1932-1947, bound in half morocco, 29 cm.
Record Book of the Health Officer, Sennett, Cayuga County, 1922-1947, bound in half morocco, 29 cm.
Student notebook, Syracuse University College of Medicine, 1919-1921, loose-leaf, 7-ring, thumb-indexed by name of professor, 20 cm. x 13 cm. x 4 cm.
Notebook, 1914-1922, loose-leaf, 6-ring, 13 cm. x 8 cm. x 2 cm.
Report book and diary of Health Officer, 1907-1949, 22 cm. x 18 cm. x 2 cm.
Memorandum book, Consolidated Board of Health, Town of Springport and Village of Union Springs, District 527-67, 1919-1955, 18 cm. x 11 cm. x 2 cm.
Health Officer's miscellaneous loose records, blanks, and forms.
Health Officer's business records, 1927-1957, in 3 original marbled cardboard file boxes, 31 cm. x 30 cm. x 8 cm.
Four scrapbooks, including two with "Union Springs High School" imprinted on cover.
Offprints, tearsheets, correspondence, and other miscellanea, in one archival document case, 12" x 10" x 5", and one original cardboard file boxes, 31 cm. x 30 cm. x 8 cm.

Yntema, Chester Loomis, Ph.D., 1904-1980.

Research papers, offprints, photographs, artwork, instruments, etc. (donated by David S. Packard, Jr., Ph.D.)

Dr. Yntema achieved his greatest renown for his work on the embryology of the snapping turtle. His landmark study, "A series of stages in the embryonic development of chelydra serpentina" (Journal of Morphology, 125, 2 [June 1968]: 219-252), remains fundamental for all reptilian embryology. However, he regarded his work on the neural crest and especially on the origin of the sympathetic nervous system of the chicken from the neural crest as of greater importance.

The collection is about 6 shelf feet. Contents include:

Complete set of offprints or photocopies of Dr. Yntema's 41 published works, in chronological order.
Original plates, photographs, negatives, prints, and artwork for "A series of stages in the embryonic development of chelydra serpentina."
Miscellaneous photographs of embryos, with related notes and correspondence.
Student notebook containing Dr. Yntema's handwritten notes as a student in Ross Granville Harrison's spring 1927 graduate course on "Experimental Morphogenesis" at Yale University.
Plates for stages in the development of ictalurus nebulosus.
Photographs: salamander -- normal series.
Notes and index cards.
Two wooden boxes of microscope slides.
Original typescript, bound and annotated in Dr. Yntema's hand: "Experiments on the Determination of the Ear in the Amphibian Embryo" by Chester L. Yntema, a dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University, in candidacy for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1930.
Taylor outdoor recording thermometer, in cardboard box.
Binocular dissecting microscope, in wooden box.
Aloe Scientific pneumatic micro-manipulator de Fonbrune, series A, no. 286, in manufacturer's original carrying case.
H.K. Fischman, Analysis of Mitotic and Meiotic Chromosomes in Reptiles (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1968), autograph signed "Yntema" on front cover.
Offprints of other authors' works.
Notes on incubator temperature shifts.
Research received in 1978.
Caricature of Dr. Yntema.
Embryological glass dissecting needle.
Philippine sugar cane knife, used by Dr. Yntema to behead turtles.
Will haemacytometer in imitation morocco case with instructions for the Spencer Bright-Line haemacytometer and the Levy and Levy-Hausser corpuscle counting chamber.
Index card file of bibliographic resources.
Lantern slides.
Curriculum vitae (2 versions).
Three copies of commencement speech given by Theodore O. Yntema at Hope College, June 6, 1960.

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Ayling, William James, M.D., 1858-1924; Ayling, William Elmer, M.D., 1893-1984

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Central New York Health Systems Agency (CNYHSA)

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Ecker, Arthur David, M.D., Ph.D., 1913-

Feldman, Harry Alfred, M.D., 1914-1985.

Fredrick, Jerome F., Ph.D., 1926-1995.

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Woodford, Norman L, M.D., 1898-1985.

Yntema, Chester Loomis, Ph.D., 1904-1980.

Ayling, William James, M.D., 1858-1924;
Ayling, William Elmer, M.D., 1893-1984