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Other Tennessee repositories and publications with history of medicine and public health materials pertaining to Rutherford County:

 From 1923-1927, the Commonwealth Fund developed and funded an experimental Child Health Demonstration (CHD) in Rutherford County, Tennessee.  The CHD was the nation's first rural health care system supported by local tax dollars.  The roots of the CHD's successes lie in its local support, the staff's sensitivity to local and economic issues, and its efforts to target children as a means of showing adults the importance of health care in the community.

  • Mustard, Harry S. Cross-sections of Rural Health Progress: Report on the Commonwealth Fund Child Health Demonstration in Rutherford County, Tennessee, 1924-1928. (New York: The Commonwealth Fund, Division of Publications 1930).

Call number: 614.09 M97

  • Wilson, John Robertson, 1799-1854. Day book of Dr. John Robertson Wilson, of Rutherford County [Tennessee].

Publication information: 1828-1837.

Description: 2 v. (handwritten)

Additional information: John R. Wilson, M.D., graduated from Transylvania University in 1825 and practiced medicine in both Rutherford and Davidson counties [of Tennessee]. He lived for 20 years on the Couchville Pike, six miles from Nashville.  His home was torn down in 1933, and his farm is now part of the Nashville airport.

He was the grandfather of Albert Wynne Harris, M.D. Asst. Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Vanderbilt Medical School and chief of the Neurology Clinic, 1925-1942 and Owen Harris Wilson, M.D. (1870-1960), Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Vanderbilt Medical School, 1905-1925.

Notes: The above biographical notes are handwritten on the inside front covers of both volumes.  They are signed "OHW" and dated 1945 and 1946.

Material: Rare book (no circulation)

  • Wilson, John Robertson, 1799-1854. Notebooks of Dr. John Robertson Wilson.

    Publication information: [Lexington, Ky], 1823-1824

    Description: 3 v. (handwritten)

    Other titles: John R. Wilson's Journal; John R. Wilson's Memoranda.

    Additional information: John R. Wilson, M.D. graduated from Transylvania University in 1825.  He later practiced medicine in both Rutherford and Davidson counties of Tennessee.  His inaugural dissertation [on the medical uses of the polk plant] is in the History of Medicine Collection of the Eskind Biomedical Library.

    Notes: Some pages are blank. Included among the lectures are several given by Dr. or Prof. [Daniel] Drake.  Caption titles: John R. Wilson's Journal (cover) and John R. Wilson's Memoranda (inside front cover).

    Material: Rare book (no circulation)

  • Wilson, John Robertson, 1799-1854. An inaugural dissertation on the Phytolacca Decandra.

    Publication information: 1825

    Other title: "Medical uses of the polk plant."

    Dissertation note: Thesis (M.D.)--Transylvania University

    Notes: Photographic copy. Added typewritten t.p. gives title as "Medical uses of the polk plant." This dissertation was written with quill pen.  The original copy is in the Transylvania University Library, Lexington, Kentucky.

    Material: Rare book (no circulation)

  • Mustard, Harry S. Photograph album, 1925-1930.

Description: 1 v. (handwritten)

Notes: Consists of photographs taken of children, buildings, and events during Dr. Harry S. Mustard's five-year work with the Commonwealth Fund in Rutherford County, Tennessee.

Location: TNS-Manuscripts

Call number: THS II-1V AC. NO.634 MF.1253

  • Mountin, Joseph W. (Joseph Walter), 1891-1952.  Tennessee Dept. of Public Health. [Survey of public health activities, Tennessee State Department of Health].

    Date: 1932

    Place of publication: Nashville

    Notes: Issued without title page.

    Location: TNS-Book Stacks

    Call number: RA154.C1 1932

  • Walker, W. Frank (Watson Frank) and Carolina R. Randolph. Influence of a Public Health Program on a Rural Community: Fifteen Years in Rutherford County, Tennessee, 1924-1938. New York: Commonwealth Fund, 1940.

    Location: TNS-Book Stacks

    Call number: RA447.T2 W32

  • Walker, Watson Frank. Ten Years of Rural health Work, Rutherford County, Tennessee, 1924-1933. New York: Commonwealth Fund, 1935.

Location: TNS-Book Stacks

Call number: RA447.T2 W3


 

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