Interview with Lydia Messmer: oral history.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Carl F. (Carl Frederic), 1893-1988.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine--Faculty.

University of Pennsylvania.

Zhongguo xie he yi ke da xue--Faculty.

Zhongguo xie he yi ke da xue.

Herbs--Therapeutic use.

Herbs.

Pharmacology--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Pharmacology.

University of Pennsylvania--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

4 videotape (3 U-matic tape and 1 VHS): accompanying material in the manuscript section of the collection.

Contained In:

University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences. Computing Facilities and Services. Multimedia Educational Technology Services. Records, 1969-1991

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania, c[1987].

Biography/History:

Carl Schmidt graduated with an A.B. from Lebanon Valley College in 1918 and with an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1918. He joined the faculty of Penn in 1920 and served as chairman of the department of Pharmacology from 1936 to 1959. From 1922 to 1924, he taught at the Peking Union Medical College, China, and in 1948 he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China. He held the office of Secretary of the International Council of Pharmacologists (1954), and was Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences and research director of the Aviation Medical Acceleration Laboratory in the Navy Aid Development Center. He received the title of Doctor of Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1964.

Summary:

Carl Schmidt's reminiscence principally consisted of two parts, his career at the University of Pennsylvania and his experience in China. He discussed the faculty of the medical school of the University, the campus in WWI period, his internship, his teaching at the dental school, etc. His China experience included a discussion of Chinese medicine herbs, especially the one from which Ephedrine can be extracted.

Notes:

Produced by the Multimedia Educational Technology Services, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1346384584