Inventory of the Ivan W. Brown papers, 1949 - 1996
Abstract:
Ivan W. Brown is a 1940 graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine and a former James B. Duke Professor of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. This collection consists of correspondence between Ivan W. Brown and Elmer L. DeGowin regarding Duke University Medical Center's Central Supply and Blood Bank, a retirement speech given by Clarence Ellsworth Gardner, and reprints of three of Ivan W. Brown's articles. One of these articles details the "adventures" of Wilburt C. Davison, Wilder G. Penfield, and Emile F. Holman
- Contact Information:
- Duke University Medical Center
Archives and Memorabilia
DUMC 3702
Durham, North Carolina
27710 USA
Phone: (919) 383-2653
Fax: (919) 383-1649
Email: dumc.archives@mc.duke.edu
Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- Duke University Medical Center Archives
- Creator
- Brown, Ivan W.
- Title
- Ivan W. Brown papers, 1949 - 1996
- Call Number
- MC0059
- Extent
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- 0.5 linear feet
- 1 box
Administrative Information
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], Ivan W. Brown papers, Medical Center Archives, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
- Processing Information
- Processed by Dawne Howard Lucas, January 2008
- Encoded by Dawne Howard Lucas, January 2008
Biographical Note
Ivan W. Brown is a 1940 graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine and a former James B. Duke Professor of Surgery at Duke University Medical Center. The youngest member of Duke's 65th General Hospital Division during WWII, Brown has collected memorabilia, organized reunions, and acted as caretaker of papers related to the 65th General Hospital. After leaving Duke, Brown worked in the Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Fla.
Collection Overview
This collection consists of information about Duke University Medical Center's Central Supply and Blood Bank, a retirement speech given by Clarence Ellsworth Gardner, and reprints of three of Ivan W. Brown's articles.
The materials regarding the Central Supply and Blood Bank include correspondence between Brown and Elmer L. DeGowin, a member of the Department of Internal Medicine at University Hospitals at the University of Iowa, Iowa City. This correspondence, dated June to August 1949, includes photographs of the Duke's Central Supply and Blood Bank, as well a print of the general floor plan of Central Supply.
Dr. Gardner's retirement speech was made at a testimonial banquet in his honor on 30 October 1964. During this speech, Gardner states one of his accomplishments as having "saved Ivan [Brown] from a career as a pathologist or as an internist and to have directed his talents into surgery and then to have kept him in our Department at Duke."
The three reprints are: "The Amazing Adventures of Wilburt C. Davison, Wilder G. Penfield, and Emile F. Holman While Rhodes Scholars in Medicine at Oxford During World War I, 1913-1917," reprinted from the Annals of Surgery, Vol. 211, No. 2, February 1990; "Will Camp Sealy: Surgical Innovator, Scholar, Exceptional Teacher, and True Georgian," reprinted from the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 58, 1994; and "Toward Further Reducing Wound Infections in Cardiac Operations," reprinted from the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 62, 1996. Brown wrote these articles while working in the Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Watson Clinic in Lakeland, Fla.
Online Catalog Headings
- Blood banks -- United States.
- Brown, Ivan W.
- Davison, Wilburt Cornell, 1892-
- DeGowin, Elmer L., 1901-
- Gardner, Clarence Ellsworth, 1903-
- Holman, Emile, 1890-
- Penfield, Wilder, 1891-1976.
- Sealy, Will C. (Will Camp)
Related Material
65th General Hospital Collection