MSS 2/0207-01 Acc. 1991-023 CHARLES C. CHAPPLE Papers, 1901-1983 Box Ser. 1 1 BIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONAL, 1932-1983 1. Miscellaneous biographical material (2 folders) 1932-1983 2. Reminiscences (incomplete) (13 folders) 1978 1. Abortion 6. My Seabee archaeology 7. The ear lamp 18. Cornie's congenital hips 21. Inhalation of drugs 23. Biologic clocks 24. An interaction between alumninum and mercury 25. Mercury 29. Geomagnetism 34. CHO 35. Precoursers 37. Hormones 41. Congenital defects 3. Newsclippings (1 folder) 1945-1949 2 PROJECTS AND RESEARCH, 1901-1977 2.1 Congenital dislocation of hip, 1934-1968: 1. Correspondence (1 folder) 1934-1939 2. Correspondence with Sir Denis Browne; includes photographs (3) (1 folder) 1952-1968 3. Correspondence with Henry J. Zettleman (1 folder) 1935-1936 4. Notes on Rosenbaum baby (1 folder) 1953 5. Printed material (1 folder) 1935;1937 2.2 Chapple Incubator and Isolette, 1901, 1935-1977: 1. Correspondence (1 folder) 1937-1970 2. Correspondence with Ruth Stephenson (1 folder) 1935 3. Correspondence concerning "Steve Roper" comic strip (1 folder) 1948 4. Brochure, "Instructions for the Chapple Incubator", 8 p., [ca. 1937] (1 folder) [ca. 1937] Box Ser. 1 2.2 5. Patent for baby incubator and the like, (Patent no. 2243999), 1941 June 3 (1 folder) 1941 6. Instructions for unpacking and operating the Chapple incubator (1 folder) [n.d.] 7. Notes on incubator changes (1 folder) [n.d.] 8. Hythergraph for Chapple Incubator, 1942 Mar. 16-23 (1 folder) 1942 9. Premature infant routines (1 folder) [ca. 1947] 10. History of infant incubation (1 folder) [ca. 1942] 11. Adey, Janne M., "The history and development of the Chapple Isolette"; includes rough transcript of interview with Charles C. Chapple (1 folder) 1977 12. Historical notes on the development of the Isolette (1 folder) [n.d.] 2 13. Newsclippings and printed material (2 folders) 1901-1968 2.3 Patent for humidifying apparatus, 1945 Jan. 30 (Patent no. 2368115) (1 folder) 1945 2.4 Random memos (3 folders) 1948-1950 2.5 Notes on human perspiration (1 folder) 1949 2.6 Memo on glycols (1 folder) 1951 2.7 Discussion with T. B. Wallace on benzadrine and dibinamine (1 folder) 1953 2.8 Notes on CHODNA (1 folder) 1958 2.9 Population figures (1 folder) 1958-1965 2.10 Notes on hormones (1 folder) 1966 2.11 Evaluation of medical research (1 folder) [1967] 3 PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS, 1937-1972 1. Chapple Incubator (1 folder) 1937 2. Isolette (1 folder) 1947-1972 3. Vapomatic (1 folder) 1948 4. Vapojette (1 folder) 1952 5. Croupette (1 folder) 1955 6. Chapple Electric Ear Lamp (1 folder) [n.d.] Box Ser. 2 4 SPEECHES AND PRESENTATIONS, 1937-1973 1. Radio broadcast on infantile paralysis : typescript, 3 p., 1937 Jan. 13 (1 folder) 1937 2. The care of the premature : Child Hygiene Association, Philadelphia, Pa. : typescript with holograph emendations, 7 p., 1937 Dec. 3; draft, 2 p., [ca. 1936]; and correspondence, 1937-1938 (1 folder) 1936-1938 3. Congenital deformities in children : Baltimore Orthopaedic Society and Philadelphia Orthopaedic Club, Philadelphia, Pa. : holograph, [4 p.], 1940 Mar. 21, with correspondence, 1940 (1 folder) 1940 4. [Analogies] : typescript, 13 p., 1967 Sept. 14, and drafts, 1947-1965 (1 folder) 1947-1967 5. Discussion of patenting in medicine : typescript, 10 p., 1949 July (1 folder) 1949 6. An interrelationship between certain pathologic states and physiologic phenomena : typescript, 13 p., [ca. 1949] (1 folder) [ca. 1949] 3 7. Discussion : Milbank Memorial Fund Conference on Promotion of Maternal and Newborn Health : typescript, 4 p., [ca. 1954 Nov. 17]; includes correspondence, 1955 (1 folder) 1954-1955 8. Research : thoughts on definition : typescript, 2 p., 1956 Jan. 31 (1 folder) 1956 9. A resume of infant incubation : typescript, 17 p., 1961; includes drafts (1 folder) 1961 10. Therapeutic trials in pediatrics : Seminar on Therapeutic Trials, Lynchburg Training School and Hospital, Colony, Va. : typescript, 9 p., with draft, 1962 June 14 (1 folder) 1962 11. Address on causes of congenital defects : typescript with holograph emendations, 6 p., 1973 May 28 (1 folder) 1973 12. A chair for treating congenital dislocation of the hip in infants : typescript, 5 p., [n.d.] (1 folder) [n.d.] Box Ser. 3 4 13. Pediatric research design : typescript, 8 p., [n.d.] (1 folder) [n.d.] 14. Address on hormones : typescript fragment, 16 p., [n.d.] (1 folder) [n.d.] 5 WRITINGS, 1953-1972 1. [Developmental defects] (chapter outline, chapter 1, pp. 1-10, chapter 2, pp. 1-8, and chapter 4, pp. 83-90) : typescript, [1953?] (1 folder) [1953?] 2. Man, a part of nature : typescript draft, 33 p., 1955 Nov. 29; drafts, 1958-1963; and holograph draft, 14 p., 1968 July 15 (3 folders) 1955-1968 3. An interaction between alumnium and mercury : typescripts, 3 p., 1966, and 4 p., 1969; with correspondence, 1969 and 1971 (1 folder) 1966-1971 4. Some physiologic synchronisms and speculation on their significance : typescript, 48 p., 1970 Oct. 27, and typescript draft with holograph emendations, 44 p., [ca. 1970]; with letter, 1971 (2 folders) 1970-1971 5. Developmental defects (marked copy) : (White Plains, N.Y. : National Foundation, 1972), 79 p., 1972 (1 folder) 1972 3-4 6. A chronological classification of developmental defects : typescript, 23 p., [n.d.], with drafts (8 folders) [n.d.] 6 VISUAL MATERIALS, 1931-1970 6.1 Drawings and paintings, 1935-1939: 1. Holt, L. Emmett, Jr., and Rustin McIntosh, Holt's diseases of infancy and childhood, 10th edition (New York: Appleton Century, 1933); contains drawing of the Chapple Incubator, 1935 Dec. 3 (p. 16) (1 volume) 1935 OV1 2. "Chair for infants with c[ongenital] d[islocation of] h[ip], 1938 Aug. (1 item) 1938 3. Miscellaneous drawings and diagrams (3 items) 1939 OV1 4. "Installation at Univ[versity] of Penn[sylvani]a Hosp[ital]" (1 item) [n.d.] 5. [Infant with dislocated hip, n.d.] (1 item) [n.d.] 6. "Fetus at 8 weeks" (2 items) [n.d.] OV1 7. [Embryo] (1 item) [n.d.] 6.2 Photographs, 1931-1970: 1. Charles C. Chapple (1 item) [ca. 1956] 2. Congenital deformities of the hip: 5 1. Miscellaneous clinical photographs (59 items) 1950-1954 2. Cornelia Chapple (15 items) 1931-1934 3. Diagrams (15 items) [n.d.] 4. Chair bed (9 items) 1938-1940 3. Chapple Incubator (11 items) 1938-1940 4. Isolette (5 items) 1947-1949 5. Moores' Incubator (4 items) [n.d.] 6. Helium chamber (7 items) 1936 7. Cold humidifier (1 item) 1941 8. Exerciser for feet and legs (25 items) [n.d.] 9. Chick embryos (13 items) 1967-1970 6.3 Photographic slides, 1942-1969: 1. History of infant incubation (39 items) [ca. 1942] 2. History of infant incubation (32 items) [ca. 1947] 3. Clinical [retro. disp. of mandible] (11 items) 1948 4. Aging (5 items) 1959 5. Clin[ical] photos [developmental defects] (26 items) 1954-1967 6. Teratology and developmental defects (44 items) 1968 7. Aluminum and mercury interaction (28 items) 1966 8. Aluminum and mercury interaction (15 items) 1966 9. Aluminum and mercury interaction (13 items) 1967 10. Lab [aluminum and mercury interaction] (35 items) [ca. 1969] 11. Sketches (chalk) embryos (5 items) 1967 Box Ser. 6 6.4 Lantern slides, 1931-1954: 6-8 1. Congenital dislocation of hip: clinical photographs and diagrams (61 items) 1931-1954 2. Congenital dislocation of hip: clinical photographs and diagrams (11 items) 1939-1953 8-9 3. Congenital dislocation of hip: clinical photographs and diagrams (15 items) 1940-1948 4. Congenital dislocation of hip: clinical photographs and diagrams (9 items) 1948-1953 5. Congenital dislocation of hip: clinical photographs and diagrams (4 items) [n.d.] 9-10 6. Infant incubation (10 items) 1938 7. Infant incubation (10 items) 1938 8. Developmental deformities (6 items) 1950-1952 11 9. Developmental deformities (5 items) [n.d.] 10. Lecture on developmental deformities (8 items) [n.d.] 1901-1983 11 boxes, 1 oversize folder (4 linear ft.) 2/25/92 je MSS 2/0207-01 Acc. 1991-023 CHARLES C. CHAPPLE Papers, 1901-1983 Biographical Charles Culloden Chapple, Philadelphia pediatrician, was born in Billings, Montana, on 27 April 1903. He had four children. Chapple died of cancer in Omaha, Nebraska, on 23 March 1979. After receiving an M.D. from the University of Michigan in 1928 and serving an internship at the University Hospital, Chapple came to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia as a resident in pediatrics (1929-1931). From 1935 to 1942, he was an Associate Pediatrician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and, before World War II, served as a pediatrician to several Philadelphia area hospitals, including Abington Memorial, Chestnut Hill, Germantown, and Presbyterian. During the war, Chapple was a consultant to the U.S. Army's Chemical Warfare Service and worked on chemical warfare for the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Public Health Service. After the war, Chapple became Senior Physician at Children's Hospital and Consultant in Pediatrics to the U.S. Naval Hospital and also held professorships in pediatrics at the School of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1958, he became Associate Clinical Professor at Howard University and, in 1966, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. Charles C. Chapple is credited with the invention of several humidification and inhalation devices; a chair bed for infants with congenital hip dislocation, a condition he was the first to describe after observing it in his daughter, Cornelia (b. 1931); and, in 1936, the first environmentallystable infant incubator. After World War II, Chapple worked with Samuel Y. Gibbon, brother of John H. Gibbon, Jr., to redesign and improve this original incubator, refashioning it in plastic. The new device, the Infant Incubator Model C 35, generally known as the "Isolette", was introduced to a congress of American pediatricians in 1947. Chapple was a member of many professional organizations, including the Philadelphia Pediatric Society, of which he was president in 1954. He became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1950. Scope and contents The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, printed material, and photographs, drawings, and slides, 1901-1983, documenting the career and research of pediatrician Charles C. Chapple. The bulk of the collection concerns Chapple's work on congenital dislocation of the hip in infants; fetal abnormalities and developmental defects; and the development of the Chapple Incubator and Isolette. Series 1 contains miscellaneous correspondence and printed material concerning Chapple's life and career, including copies of his curriculum vitae and bibliographies and miscellaneous typescript chapters of professional reminiscences, containing his views on abortion, his inventions, and aspects of his career. Documentation of several of Chapple's research projects and developments is contained in Series 2. The bulk of the series concerns congenital dislocation of the hip, including correspondence with Sir Denis Browne, and the Chapple Incubator and Isolette. The incubation material includes correspondence; a printed brochure; a patent; notes on intended modifications; material assembled by Charles C. Chapple on the history of pediatric incubation; a rough transcript of an oral interview with Chapple about the history of the Isolette; and a substantial collection of newsclippings and printed material with many items showing Isolettes in use. The series also contains miscellaneous files on some of Chapple's other projects, including three folders of typescript, labelled "Random memos", documenting discussions, experiments, personal reflections, and published references, December 1948 through March 1950, on hormones and other possible topics of research. Printed advertisements used as promotional materials for Chapple devices, including the Incubator, Isolette, Croupette, and Electric Ear Lamp, 1937-1972, are in Series 3. Typescripts and drafts of some of Chapple's speeches and presentations, 1937-1973, are in Series 4, while typescripts and drafts of several of his published and unpublished works, 1953-1972, are in Series 5. Many of these items concern congenital deformities, fetal developmental defects, and infant incubation. An extensive collection of visual material concerning Chapple's work, 1931-1970, is preserved in Series 6. Series 6.1 contains drawings and paintings by Chapple, including a 1935 diagram of the Chapple Incubator and a 1938 design of the chair bed devised for congenital hip dislocation patients. Series 6.2 contains photographs of Chapplejinventions, including the Incubator, Isolette, a helium chamber, and an exerciser for feet and legs, and photographs of congenital hip dislocation patients, including x rays showing the hip dislocation of Chapple's daughter, Cornelia. Sets of photographic slides used in presentations on infant incubation, developmental defects, and the interaction of aluminum and mercury, are in Series 6.3. Series 6.4 contains glass lantern slides, primarily images of congenital hip dislocation patients at Philadelphia area hospitals, 1931-1954. Many of these slides include clinical information on the patient and case. There are also lantern slides on infant incubation and developmental deformities. Although the distinctions between the several sets of slides in Series 6.3 and 6.4 is often unclear, these original distinctions have been maintained. Provenance The Charles C. Chapple Papers were donated to the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Dr. Chapple's widow, Sally A. Chapple, on 19 June 1984. The collection was processed and catalogued in 1992. 1901-1983 11 boxes, 1 oversize folder (4 linear ft.) 2/25/92 je