John Farquhar Fulton papers in the Medical Historical Library. Yale University 1915-1960 (inclusive)

40 linear feet.

English

Open for research.

John Farquhar Fulton was born in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 1, 1899. He received B.S. and M.D. degrees from Harvard, and a M.A. and D. Phil. from Oxford. He was appointed Sterling Professor of Physiology at Yale in 1929 and in 1951 became the first Sterling professor of the history of medicine. During World War II, Fulton served on the National Research Council. He was an authority on comparative physiology of the primate brain, neurophysiology, aviation medicine, and medical history. He collected and published books dealing with the history of science and medicine and was regarded an outstanding bibliophile. He died in New Haven, Connecticut on May 29, 1960.

The collection includes typed and bound diaries from 1927 to 1960 ass well as unbond diary notes from earlier in his life; notes from Fulton's education at Harvard University and Oxford University; bound scrapbooks of correspondence with selected individuals such as Grace Revere Osler and Charles Sherrington; scrapbooks on international conferences, esecially the International Physiological Congresses; scapbooks on the reception of his publications; bound reprints of his articles; and copies of the books he authored, including editions and translations.

June 01, 2002

John Farquhar Fulton Papers, Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

John Farquhar Fulton Papers, Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.