Graphic Clinical Chart for W.B. Dunn, 1905, regarding yellow fever in Panama Canal area [Digital Version]

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Osterhout, Paul, 1859-1944, Graphic Clinical Chart for W.B. Dunn, 1905, regarding yellow fever in Panama Canal area (August 13, 1905)

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Title: Graphic Clinical Chart for W.B. Dunn, 1905, regarding yellow fever in Panama Canal area [Digital Version]
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Author: Osterhout, Paul, 1859-1944
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Publisher: Rice University, Houston, Texas
Publication date: 2010-06-07
Identifier: aa00115
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Provenance: A majority of the papers were purchased by Rice University from Mrs. Ora Osterhout Wade in 1958 and a second group of records arrived in October 1962. The collection register of John P. Osterhout was added to the collection in October 1965 as a gift from Herbert Herrick Fletcher. And in November 1992, Harry Yeager donated the book History of the Roberts Family to add to the collection.
Description: 1 page medical chart for W.B. Dunn, written on the page is, "First case of Yellow Fever in Bocas del Toro for the Season of 1905"
Source(s): Osterhout, Paul, 1859-1944, Graphic Clinical Chart for W.B. Dunn, 1905, regarding yellow fever in Panama Canal area (August 13, 1905)
Source Identifier: Osterhout Family Papers, MS 355, Box 6 folder 20 item 1, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
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Languages used in the text: English
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Keywords: Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus
  • Medical records
Keywords: Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Dunn, W. B.--Health
  • Yellow fever--Panama
Keywords: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
  • Bocas del Toro (inhabited place)
  • Panama (nation)

GRAPHIC CLINICAL CHART, DESIGNED BY J. P. CROZER GRIFFITH, M.D.

Name, W B. Dunn Age,        Residence, Bocas del Toro, Panama
machinist U. F. Co. machine shops

Disease, yellow fever Case No.        Date, Aug. 13, 1905, 9 a.m.

First case of
yellow fever in Bocas del Toro
for the season of 1905

[Annotator's Note: Please see accompanying image for a plot of the patient's pulse, respiration and temperature over the course of the disease.]

Rice University
Date: 2010-06-07
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