The New York Academy of Medicine history

Purple became the president of the Academy in 1875, and in his inaugural address, “Objects and Purposes,” delivered on January 21, he proposed taking on two large tasks.

By 1900, when Purple died, the Academy had moved on to its next home, a new building on West 43rd Street.

The issue eventually reached President Theodore Roosevelt, who convened the first White House Conference on Children in 1909.

Despite a busy professional life, he began publishing articles about his wartime medical experiences in 1915.

In December 1919, Malloch moved to the Osler household in Oxford as one of the attending physicians who cared for Osler until his death on December 29th.

The offer came after the Academy’s first dedicated librarian, John S. Brownne, retired in August of 1925 after 45 years of service.

He officially took up his new duties on January 1,1926 and began thinking about how to bring his vision of a much-expanded Academy Library to life.

Working with Doctor Samuel Lambert and Doctor Williams, he raised $185,000 for the 1928 purchase of the Edward Clark Streeter Collection of manuscripts and important early printed medical books, adding about 1,200 volumes to the Library’s then-modest rare book collection.

New York: The Commonwealth Fund, 1933.

Four years later, Galdston adapted the study for lay audiences, including results from Philadelphia and the United States Children’s Bureau, as Maternal deaths—the ways to prevention (1937), also published by the Commonwealth Fund.

Neither of these studies directly addressed causation, and when the Children’s Bureau did so in 1940, as one historian noted, they marked out Black women as inherently poor prospects for motherhood, the origin of “the Black maternal blame narrative.”

6:3 (1953), the Malloch memorial issue.

The status quo of American drug policy extends farther back than 1970, however.

Gabriel Cervantes and Dahlia Porter, “Extreme Empiricism: John Howard, Poetry, and the Thermometrics of Reform,” The Eighteenth Century, 57:1 (Spring 2016): 97.

The National Museums Scotland first contacted us about a potential loan of the Burke letter in November 2019.

Charles Vidich, Germs at Bay: Politics, Public Health, and American Quarantine (Praeger, 2021): As global lockdowns, pauses, and reopenings have made clear, fighting endemic disease takes many tools and strategies.