Reminiscences of Edward Delos Churchill, 1957.

Biographical Note

Surgeon

Scope and Contents

Family history and boyhood; education, Northwestern University and Harvard Medical School; clinical training, Faulkner and Massachusetts General Hospital, 1919-1924; techniques of surgery, anesthesiology, and blood transfusion, 1920s; anecdotes of Boston medical profession, 1920-1940; observations in European clinics and laboratories, 1926-1927; Boston City Hospital, 1929-1952; relationship of Harvard teaching hospitals and University; cancer research; Huntington and Vincent Hospitals; medical planning, World War II; surgical consultant, North African and Mediterranean Theaters, 1943-1946; battle wound management; shock research; debate on plasma use; postwar Veterans Administration; chairman, advisory committee to Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, 1946; impressions of colleagues in medicine, education and government, especially Cecil Drinker, David Edsall, Harvey Cushing, Elliott Cutler, James B. Conant, Henry Beecher, Edwin Cohn, Sidney Burwell, Evarts Graham, Howard Snyder, Michael De Bakey, and Henry L. Stimson. Audio only corresponds to two segments of interview, and was heavily edited to produce final transcript

Subjects

• Benison, Saul, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Boston City Hospital.
• Churchill, Edward D. (Edward Delos), 1895-1972--Interviews.
• Harvard Medical School.
• Interviews.
• Massachusetts General Hospital.
• Medical care.
• Medical colleges--Massachusetts.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Surgeons--Interviews.
• United States. Veterans Administration.
• World War, 1939-1945--Medical care.