David S. Light collection of scientific letters
Description
This digitized collection of letters and notes which contains autographs and signatures of renowned scientists and physicians was originally compiled by David S. Light, M.D., alumnus of Tulane University School of Medicine, 1944. Among the autographs in collection are: Claude Bernard, Sir William Bowman, Jean Martin Charcot, Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Harvey Williams Cushing, Paul Ehrlich, Sigmund Freud, Herman Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz, Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, Cornielle Jean Francois Heymans, Johannes Muller, Albert Ludwig Siegmund Neisser, Sir James Paget, Louis Pasteur, Johannes Evangelesta Purkinje, William Ramsay, Louis-Antoine Ranvier, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Friedrich Tiedmann, John Tyndall, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow, William Henry Welsh. The letters and notes are in various languages, largely English, French, German or Czechoslovak and are handwritten or typed on various types of stationery or cards. The donation of the Light collection was accepted by W. D. Postell, Jr, Director of the Rudolph Matas Library in March 1993 with supplementary items added to the collection through 2003.
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Signature of Albert Döderlein (b.1860, d.1941), German obstetrician and gynecologist
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Signature of Albert Döderlein (b.1860, d.1941), German obstetrician and gynecologist
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Signature of Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (b.1855, d.1916), German microbiologist
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Signature of Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser (b.1855, d.1916), German microbiologist
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Signature of Anthony White (b.1782, d.1849), British Surgeon
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Signature of Arnaldo Maggiora-Vergano (b.1862, d.1945), Italian physician and public health expert
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Signature of Axel Laurids Reyn (b.1872-d.1935), Finsen Light Institute, Copenhagen - lupus researcher
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Signature of Carl Friedrich Richard Förster (b.1825, d.1902), German ophthalmologist
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Signature of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard (b.1817-d.1894), Mauritian physiologist & neurologist
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Signature of Charles H. Best (b.1899-d.1978), American-Canadian medical scientist, co-discoverer of insulin
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Signature of Claude Bernard (b.1813-d.1878), French physiologist
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Signature of Corneille Jean François Heymans (b.1892, d.1968), Belgian Nobel physiologist
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Signature of Ernst Adolf Coccius (b.1825, d.1890), German ophthalmologist
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Signature of Ernst Bumm (b.1858-d.1925), German gynecologist & obstetrician
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Signature of Ernst Bumm (b.1858-d.1925), German gynecologist & obstetrician
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Signature of Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (b.1834, d.1919), German zoologist & physician
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Signature of Ernst von Bergmann (b.1836-d.1907), German pioneer of aseptic surgery
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Signature of Felix Semon (b.1849, d.1921), pioneer laryngologist
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Signature of Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (b.1809, d.1885), German physician, pathologist & anatomist
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Signature of Friedrich Tiedemann (b.1781, d.1861), German anatomist & physiologist
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Signature of George James Guthrie (b.1785, d.1856), English military surgeon
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Signature of Harvey Williams Cushing (b.1869, d.1939), Yale University, The School of Medicine
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Signature of Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (b.1821, d.1894), German physician & physicist
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Signature of Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (b.1821, d.1894), German physician & physicist
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