Derow, Harry A. – Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Regarding “Cor Biloculare, with a very slight suggestion of an auricular septum in the form of a muscular ridge, of small proportions, in the anterior wall of the common auricle.”
Jacobson, Victor. – Union Univ., Albany Medical College, Albany, N. Y.
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Regarding the possibility of Abbott describing “Baby [name omitted]".
Anderson, H. B. – Conemaugh Valley Mem. Hospital, Johnstown, Pa
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Blackford, Milford, L. – Atlanta, Georgia
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Relating thanks to Abbott for advice about “not to stick my neck out too far!”
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Regarding Foramen Ovale photos sent to Abbott.
Envelope mailed from Blackford to Abbott
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Johnston, John M. – Merry Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
“We are sending you the heart of a five day old male infant, born at term with a normal labor. The child was well for three days after birth, when it became cyanotic and developed numerous atypical adventitious sounds over the praecordium…”
Anderson, H. B. – Conemaugh Valley Mem. Hospital, Johnstown, Pa
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Two letters related to the heart of “a baby that lived five days and died of congenital heart disease…this child gave a history of cyanosis and attacks of dyspnoea; somewhat simulating thymus disease although the thymus was not unusually large…”
Blackford,Milford, L. Minor, Atlanta, Georgia
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Regarding “anterior and posterior endocardial cushion fusing at their right ends instead of in the middle and crowding out the other leaflets of the tricuspid sounds…” Also, requesting Abbott’s opinion on two ‘congenital cardiacs’ at the federal prison; retroposition of a heart. Includes a tracing of an x-ray and an article by Blackford: “Tetralogy of Fallot: clinical report of a case.”
Emerson, Paul W. – Longwood Medical Building, Boston
Part of Maude Abbott Collection
Regarding suggestions on the “value of the X-Ray in heart disease in children."