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This digital collection features selected medications and documents, manuals, and photographs relating to biochemical research and technology, with a focus on 20th-century instrumentation in medical laboratories. Various models of glucose, enzyme, and amino acid analyzers are a few of the instruments documented in these materials.

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  • 118 items
    Rare books, Woodcuts

    Coelum Philosophorum, seu De Secretis Naturae

    • Philosopher’s Heaven or the Secrets of Nature
    • 1525

    An early work on the preparation of aqua vitae or the “water of life” (alcohol), by the process of distillation. This treatise describes the distillation process and necessary instrumentation in detail. Aqua vitae was…

    • Author Ulstadius, Philippus
    • Contributor Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280, Arnaldus, de Villanova, -1311, Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316, Johannes, de Rupescissa, approximately 1300-approximately 1365., Grüninger, Johann, -1532?
    • Subject Alchemy, Distillation, Distillation apparatus, Gold--Therapeutic use, Medicine, Alcohol, Alcohol--Synthesis
  • 13 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Lee W. Riley

    • 1997-Dec-29 – 1997-Dec-31

    Lee W. Riley was born Hiroshi Satoyoshi: he spent his first ten years with his mother in Yokohama, Japan, then lived for a short time in a Japanese orphanage before being adopted by the Riley family, at which time he…

    • Interviewee Riley, Lee W., 1949-
    • Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Riley, Lee W., 1949-, Public health, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, Escherichia coli--Research, Tuberculosis--Research, Communicable diseases--Transmission, Tuberculosis--Pathogenesis
  • 22 items
    Publications

    An Essay on the Chemical History and Medical Treatment of Calculous Disorders

    • 1819

    Alexander Marcet (1770-1822) was a Genevan physician who specialized in urinary calculi. Marcet was one of few medical practitioners of the time who used chemistry in their explanation and treatment of disease. He was…

    • Author Marcet, Alexander, 1770-1822
    • Publisher Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
    • Subject Calculi, Urinary organs--Calculi, Gallstones, Kidneys--Calculi, Bladder--Calculi, Therapeutics, Medicine, Urology
  • 10 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Carlos T. Moraes

    • 2001-Mar-13 – 2001-Mar-15

    Carlos T. Moraes grew up in São Paulo, Brazil, one of three children. His father was in the military at first, but then became a mechanical engineer and a professor. His mother completed a degree in physical education.…

    • Interviewee Moraes, Carlos Torres. 1962-
    • Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Moraes, Carlos Torres, 1962-, Biochemistry, Genetics, Religion and science, Minorities in science, Molecular genetics, Mitochondrial DNA--Abnormalities, Bilingualism, Research grants, Emigration and immigration
  • 8 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Marinus Los

    • 1995-Jan-17

    The interview begins with Dr. Marinus Los' description of his family's origins in The Netherlands. When he was two years old, his family moved to England, where he received his early education during World War II.…

    • Interviewee Los, Marinus, 1933-
    • Interviewer Bohning, James J.
    • Subject Los, Marinus, 1933-, World War (1939-1945), Biochemistry, Heterocyclic chemistry, Alkaloids, Lederle Laboratories, University of Edinburgh, Plant regulators, Herbicides, Emigration and immigration
  • 2 items
    Business correspondence

    Letter from Paul Ehrlich to Georg Bredig

    • Undated

    Paul Ehrlich (1854 – 1915), a German physician and scientist, thanks Georg Bredig (1868-1944) for sending him a scientific paper and mentions that he will send Bredig some of his recent scientific publications dealing…

    • Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
    • Author Ehrlich, Paul, 1854-1915
    • Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Ehrlich, Paul, 1854-1915, Cellular immunity, Immunoglobulins, Biochemistry
  • 2 items
    Medical instruments and apparatus

    Park Davis & Co. Pharmaceutical Nursing Drug Kit

    • 1910s

    A black leather pouch containing 11 vials of various pharmaceutical tablets. Five vials are empty, and one vial is missing.

    The vials are labeled:
    Hypodermatic tablets No. 5, (Cocaine hydrochlorate);
    Hypodermatic…

    • Creator Of Work Parke, Davis & Company
    • Subject Parke, Davis & Company, Drugs, Medical supplies, Nursing--Equipment and supplies, Pharmaceutical industry
  • 2 items
    Clothing and dress

    Butter-Soft Scrub Dress

    • 2019 – 2021

    A navy blue, size medium scrub dress with short sleeves. There are two pockets in the front and button adjustments on the sides. On one of the pockets is a small white emblem that appears to depict a cloud.

    The scrubs…

    • Creator Of Work Zier, Inc.
    • Subject COVID-19 (Disease), COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Pandemics, Nurses, Medical personnel--Clothing, Medicine
  • 2 items
    Publications

    Katalyse und Biologie

    • Catalysis and Biology
    • 1936-Jan-20

    Clipping of Katalyse und Biologie (Catalysts and Biology) by Alwin Mittasch (1869-1953) published in Forschungen und Fortschritte, a news bulletin of German science and technology which ran between 1925 and 1967.

    • Author Mittasch, Alwin, 1869-1953
    • Subject Mittasch, Alwin, 1869-1953, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology, Catalysts, Forschungen und Fortschritte
  • Photograph of Carolyn R. Bertozzi
    12 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Carolyn R. Bertozzi

    • 2003-Aug-17 – 2003-Aug-18

    Carolyn Bertozzi grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts, the second of three girls. Her father was a nuclear physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her mother a secretary in MIT's physics department.…

    • Interviewee Bertozzi, Carolyn R., 1966-
    • Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Women molecular biologists, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology--Research, Carbohydrates--Physiological effect, Bertozzi, Carolyn R., 1966-, Molecular biologists, Nobel Prize winners
  • 9 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

    • 2004-Apr-19 – 2004-Apr-20

    Lilianna Solnica-Krezel was born in Cieplice-Sląskie, a small village in the mountains in the southwestern part of Poland, but grew up in Sandomierz, Poland, at a time when the country was still under the communist…

    • Interviewee Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna
    • Interviewer Van Benschoten, William
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Solnica-Krezel, Lilianna, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Women in science, Women in medicine, Mutagenesis, Cytoskeleton, Physarum polycephalum, Emigration and immigration
  • 9 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Yixian Zheng

    • 2003-Sep-09 – 2003-Sep-11

    Yixian Zheng was born and raised in Chongqing, the Sichuan province of China, the elder (by about nine years) of the family's two daughters. Both of her parents were professors at Chongqing University—her mother in…

    • Interviewee Zheng, Yixian, 1969-
    • Interviewer Maestrejuan, Andrea R.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Zheng, Yixian, 1969-, Women in science, Centrosomes, Microtubules, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Women in medicine, Women medical scientists, Emigration and immigration
  • 18 items
    Publications

    Chemistry for Nurses

    • 1930

    Volume intended to provide nursing students with instruction in chemistry. The volume's content conveys the concepts from inorganic, organic, analytical, biological, and physical chemistry most applicable to a…

    • Author Koechig, Irene
    • Publisher Lea & Febiger
    • Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Nursing, Nursing students, Nursing--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Women in medicine, Women nurses, Koechig, Irene, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
  • 5 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Marion David Francis

    • 1997-Jan-24

    Marion David Francis begins his interview with a discussion of his childhood in Canada. Deeply influenced by his industrious parents and siblings, Francis worked his way through high school and college at a logging…

    • Interviewee Francis, Marion D., 1923-2016
    • Interviewer Traynham, James G.
    • Subject Biochemists, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Procter & Gamble Company, Fluorides, Francis, Marion D., 1923-2016, Emigration and immigration
  • Photograph of Konrad Bloch
    12 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Konrad E. Bloch

    • 1993-Mar-22

    The interview begins with Konrad E. Bloch describing his childhood in Neisse, Germany, and his undergraduate education at Technische Hochschule in Munich. During a research assistantship in Davos, Switzerland, Bloch had…

    • Interviewee Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-
    • Interviewer Bohning, James J.
    • Subject University of Oxford, Biosynthesis, Biochemists, Human Genome Project, Cholesterol, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Organic, Harvard University, Bloch, Konrad Emil, 1912-, Columbia University, Nobel Prize winners, Cholesterol--Synthesis, Nutrition, Emigration and immigration
  • 247 items
    Publications

    Applied Chemistry for Nurses

    • 1926

    Published in 1926, this textbook of chemistry was intended to instill "the elementary foundation principles of chemistry which will be of service to the nurse in her work." The work contains chapters that discuss…

    • Author Goostray, Stella, 1886-1969
    • Publisher Macmillan & Co.
    • Contributor Karr, Walter G. (Walter Gerald), 1892-1946
    • Printer The Cornwall Press
    • Subject Chemistry, Chemistry--Study and teaching, Nursing--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Women in medicine, Women nurses, Nursing, Nursing students, Goostray, Stella, 1886-1969
  • Photograph of  Hao Wu
    5 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Hao Wu

    • 2008-Jan-30 – 2008-Jan-31

    Hao Wu's oral history begins with a discussion of her childhood in China, during which her family was separated and forced to relocate to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution. Despite the difficulties…

    • Interviewee Wu, Hao, 1964-
    • Interviewer Frenkel, Karen A.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Wu, Hao, 1964-, Women in science, Women in medicine, Medical scientists, Molecular biology, Medicine--Research, CD4 antigen, Glycoproteins, Crystallography, Emigration and immigration
  • 2 items
    Oral histories

    Research interview with Pouné Saberi

    • 2017-Jul-14

    Pouné Saberi was born in Tehran, Iran, and experienced the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a child. Her family left Iran in the mid-1980s during its war with Iraq and settled briefly in Boston. Pouné’s parents and younger…

    • Interviewee Saberi, Pouné
    • Interviewer Eardley-Pryor, Roger
    • Sponsor Climate & Urban Systems Partnership
    • Subject Saberi, Pouné, Women in science, Women in medicine, Physicians, Women physicians, Revolution (Iran : 1979), Public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility (U.S.), Toxins--Environmental aspects, Emigration and immigration
  • Engravings, Portraits

    Portrait of Hermann von Helmholtz

    • Undated

    Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894) was a German mathematician and physician who made significant contributions to the fields of mathematical physics, optics, acoustics, physiology, and psychology. The Helmholtz…

    • Subject Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894, Physicists, Medicine, Hermann von Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren
  • 11 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Maureen J. Charron

    • 1999-Sep-07 – 1999-Sep-09

    Maureen J. Charron has spent most of her life in New York City, New York. She was born on Long Island but grew up in Queens. The elder of two sisters born to parents of Italian and French Canadian descent, she attended…

    • Interviewee Charron, Maureen J., 1959-
    • Interviewer Cohen, Helene L.
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Women in science, Women in medicine, Charron, Maureen J., 1959-, Molecular biology, Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, DNA--Research, Glucose--Physiological transport, Diabetes--Research
  • 3 items
    Oral histories

    Oral history interview with Marla B. Luskin

    • 1990-Mar-06

    Marla Luskin grew up in the San Fernando Valley, near Los Angeles, California, one of three children. Her father was a plumber and her mother a housewife. Neither of her parents valued the need for higher education,…

    • Interviewee Luskin, Marla B.
    • Interviewer Thackray, Arnold, 1939-, Sawyer, Richard
    • Sponsor Pew Charitable Trusts
    • Subject Luskin, Marla B., Medical scientists, Medicine--Research, Molecular biology, Women in science, Women in medicine, Neurobiology, Developmental neurobiology
  • 3 items
    Scientific apparatus and instruments

    Beckman Model E Ultracentrifuge Rotor

    • 1950s

    Beckman Instruments began producing centrifuges after their January 1, 1955 acquisition of industry leader, Specialized Instruments Corporation, or Spinco. With Spinco came the famous Model E Ultracentrifuge, which was…

    • Creator Of Work Beckman Instruments, Inc.
    • Subject Beckman Instruments, Inc., Rotors, Centrifuges, Biochemistry, Ultracentrifugation, Solution (Chemistry), Scientific apparatus and instruments, Beckman Instruments, Inc. Spinco Division
  • 2 items
    Scientific apparatus and instruments, Medical instruments and apparatus

    Hand Operated Centrifuge

    • Circa 1930

    Brass instrument with removable wooden handle. Holds two centrifuge tubes. Used for rapid settling of suspended solids from small quantities of liquid in analytical or clinical procedures. Manufactured by Charles Lentz…

    • Creator Of Work Bausch & Lomb Optical Company
    • Contributor Charles Lentz and Sons
    • Subject Centrifuges, Bausch & Lomb Optical Company, Charles Lentz and Sons, Medical laboratories--Equipment and supplies, Analytical chemistry, Biochemistry, Laboratories--Equipment and supplies
  • 2 items
    Photographs, Postcards, Personal correspondence

    Postcard from Carl Neuberg to Georg Bredig, November 1930

    • 1930-Nov-14

    Postcard from Carl Neuberg (1877-1956) to Georg Bredig (1868-1944) of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biochemistry.

    Neuberg is regarded as the father of modern biochemistry and was nominated for a Nobel Prize for…

    • Addressee Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944
    • Author Neuberg, Carl, 1877-
    • Subject Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie, Biochemistry, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Neuberg, Carl, 1877-
  • 13 items
    Illustrated works, Publications, Rare books

    An Atlas of Gas Poisoning

    • 1918

    First edition volume, published in August 1918 by Great Britain's Medical Research Committee. Founded in 1913, the Medical Research Committee and Advisory Council existed primarily for the distribution of medical…

    • Author Great Britain. Medical Research Committee
    • Artist Maxwell, A. Kirkpatrick
    • Subject Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--Toxicology, Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--War use, Mustard gas, Chemical warfare, Chemical agents (Munitions), Phosgene
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