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HUGHSON, WALTER,
(1891-1944)
Papers,
1921-1945
Box Ser.
1 1 CORRESPONDENCE, 1921-1944:
1.1 Alphabetical file
1. A (1 folder) 1938-1942
2. American Hearing Aid Association (1 folder) 1943-1944
3. American Society for the Hard of
Hearing (1 folder) 1944
4. B (1 folder) 1936-1940
5. Baldwin, J. F. (1 folder) 1928
6. C (1 folder) 1937-1941
7. Ciocco, Antonio (6 folders) 1936-1942
8. E (1 folder) 1939
9. F (1 folder) 1939
10. H (1 folder) 1941
11. J (1 folder) 1937-1938
12. K (1 folder) 1937
13. L (1 folder) 1938
14. M (1 folder) 1935-1939
15. N (1 folder) 1940;1942
16. O (1 folder) 1931;1936
17. P (1 folder) 1936-1942
18. R (1 folder) 1938-1942
19. S (1 folder) 1936-1942
20. T (1 folder) 1935-1938
21. W (1 folder) 1935-1942
1.2 Correspondence concerning use of
sodium chloride to treat headaches (1 folder) 1921-1923
1.3 Correspondence and statistics
concerning mumps and deafness (2 folders) 1944
1.4 Correspondence concerning reprints
1. Surgical reprints (1 folder) 1922-1939
2. Aural research reprints (1 folder) 1933-1942
Box Ser.
2 2 PROJECTS AND RESEARCH PROGRAMS, 1935-1945
2.1 Abington Memorial Hospital Otological
Research Laboratory
1. Audiometer survey:
1. Correspondence (1 folder) 1940-1942
2. Data (1 folder) 1940-1943
2. Hearing aid fittings:
Patient records (1 folder) 1944
3. Speech reception data (1 folder) 1942-1944
4. Speech sound analysis research:
1. Correspondence (1 folder) 1939
2. Data from the Pennsylvania
School for the Deaf (1 folder) 1939
3. Family history surveys A (1 folder) 1939
5. X Ray Department: Technique for
treatment of eustachian tube
deafness (1 folder) [n.d.]
6. Miscellaneous proposals,
procedures, and forms (1 folder) 1939;[n.d.]
2.2 American Academy of Ophthalmology and
Otolaryngology
1. Correspondence (2 folders) 1943-1944
2. Committee on the Conservation of
Hearing: correspondence (2 folders) 1942-1943
3. Pennsylvania Subcommittee:
1. Agenda and reports (1 folder) 1943-1944
2. Otolaryngology course (1943) (1 folder) 1943
4. Annual Meeting (1943):
Correspondence and printed
materials (1 folder) 1943
3 2.3 American Medical Association Council
on Physical Therapy: Hearing Aid Research
1. Audiometer tests (1 folder) 1944
2. Comments on "Minimum requirements
for acceptable audiometers" (1 folder) [ca.1943?]
3. Correspondence (2 folders) 1943-1944
4. Correspondence with
Howard A. Carter (2 folders) 1943-1944
5. Hearing aid evaluation
research data (5 folders) 1936-1944
6. Reports (2 folders) 1943-1945
4 2.4 Medical Society of the State of
Pennsylvania Committee on Deafness
Prevention and Amelioration:
Correspondence and manual (1 folder) 1941-1944
Box Ser.
4 2.5 Pennsylvania School for the Deaf:
Hearing survey (1 folder) 1935-1939
3 WRITINGS, 1922-1944
1. Bibliographies (1 folder) 1926-1942
2. "Localization of cutaneous nerves",
typescript, (1 p.),
[ca.September 1922?] (1 folder) [ca.1922?]
3. [Article for Jenkintown paper],
typescript, (2 p.),
1 November 1935 (1 folder) 1935
4. "Examination of the ear and
functional examination of the ear",
typescript, (24 p.),
[ca.February 1944?];
includes related correspondence,
1943-1944 (1 folder) 1943-1944
5. "Unilateral deafness",
typescript, (16 p.),
31 May 1944;
includes related correspondence,
1944 (1 folder) 1944
6. "Audiometry in the diagnosis and
treatment of deafness in children",
typescript, (14 p.),
[ca.31 July 1944?];
includes related correspondence,
1944 (1 folder) 1944
7. "Diseases of the ear",
typescript, (9 p.), and
"Impaired hearing, its diagnosis
and therapeutic control",
typescript, (9 p.),
[ca.1944?];
includes related correspondence,
1944 (1 folder) 1944
8. "Selecting pupils who have
impaired hearing",
typescript, (79 p.),
[ca.1944?] (1 folder) [ca.1944?]
9. Book review (1 folder) [ca.1938?]
10. Discussions of papers by Edmund
Prince Fowler and K. M. Day (1 folder) 1936-1939
Box Ser.
4 4 LECTURES AND LECTURE COURSES, 1936-1944
4.1 Individual lectures
1. "A resume of experimental investigations
of the ear",
College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typescript abstract, (3 p.),
5 February 1936 (1 folder) 1936
2. "Experimental otology and its
clinical significance",
University of Pennsylvania
Otolaryngological clinic of George M. Coates,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typed transcript, (5 p.),
11 March 1936 (1 folder) 1936
3. [Untitled],
Baltimore, Md.,
typescript notes,
December 1936 (1 folder) 1936
4. "The clinical significance of experimental
otology",
Medical Society of Western Reserve
Medical School,
Cleveland, Ohio,
typescript abstract, (6 p.),
9 February 1937 (1 folder) 1937
5. "The significance of experimental otology",
College of Physicians of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typescript abstract, (4 p.),
17 March 1937 (1 folder) 1937
6. [Lecture to Dr. Bronk's Second Year Class],
[n.p.],
typescript notes,
16 April 1937 (1 folder) 1937
7. "Physiology of the ear in relation to deafness",
Radio Talk Station WDAS,
[Philadelphia, Pa.?],
typescript, (2 p.),
26 October 1937 (1 folder) 1937
8. Radio address, National Hearing Week,
[n.p.],
typescript, (2 p.),
25 October 1938 (1 folder) 1938
9. "Ten per cent of population",
[n.p.],
typescript notes,
4 April 1940 (1 folder) 1940
Box Ser.
4 4.1 10. "Deafness in general practice",
Abington Memorial Hospital,
Abington, Pa.,
typescript notes,
10 April 1940 (1 folder) 1940
11. Lecture to visiting nurses,
Pennsylvania School for the Deaf,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typescript notes,
11 and 12 April 1940 (1 folder) 1940
12. [Untitled],
Temple University,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typescript notes,
12 April 1940 (1 folder) 1940
13. [Untitled],
Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typescript notes,
15 April 1940 (1 folder) 1940
14. "Voice characteristics of
deafened children",
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Section on Otolaryngology,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typescript, (5 p.),
18 December 1940 (1 folder) 1940
15. "Leonardo 1452-1519",
[n.p.],
typescript, (5 p.),
[ca.1940?] (1 folder) [ca.1940?]
16. "Defend hearing",
Speech Reading Club of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typescript notes,
20 October 1941 (1 folder) 1941
17. "The interested otologist and a
few of the hearing aid problems",
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Section on Otolaryngology,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
typescript abstract, (2 p.),
19 November 1941 (1 folder) 1941
18. "Differential diagnosis and treatment
of deafness",
Medical Society of the County of Kings
and Academy of Medicine of Brooklyn
Section on Laryngology, Rhinology and Otology,
Brooklyn, N.Y.,
typescript, (4 p.),
13 May 1942 (1 folder) 1942
Box Ser.
4 4.1 19. "Physiology of hearing and certain forms
of treatment",
[Abington Memorial Hospital,
Abington, Pa.?],
typescript notes,
29 October 1942 (1 folder) 1942
20. "The diagnosis and treatment of deafness",
Detroit, Mich.,
typescript abstracts (3 p.), and notes,
18 November 1942 (1 folder) 1942
5 21. "Contributions of the otologist to child care",
Third Annual Institute for School Psychologists,
Pennsylvania State College,
State College, Pa.,
typescript notes,
23 June 1944 (1 folder) 1944
22. "Hearing aids",
State University of Iowa Summer Session Program
in Hearing Conservation,
Iowa City, Iowa,
typescript notes,
21-22 July 1944 (1 folder) 1944
23. "Demonstrations use of hearing aids",
New Haven, Conn.,
typescript, (3 p.),
undated (1 folder) [n.d.]
24. Miscellaneous programs (1 folder) 1937
5 4.2 Lecture courses
1. University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Medicine
April 1936-April 1943 (1 folder) 1936-1943
2. Pennsylvania School for the Deaf,
October 1940-January 1941 (2 folders) 1940-1941
3. "Acoustics and audiometry",
[n.p.],
October December 1941 (1 folder) 1941-1942
4. Abington Memorial Hospital,
11-13 October 1943 (1 folder) 1943-1944
5. Northwestern University
Symposium in Hearing Aids and
Residual Hearing,
25-28 July 1944 (1 folder) 1944
1921-1945
5 boxes (1.5 cubic feet)
4/10/1990
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MSS 2/0077-01 Acc. 1990-037
HUGHSON, WALTER,
(1891-1944)
Papers,
1921-1945
Biographical
Walter Hughson, otologist and surgeon, was born in East Orange,
New Jersey, in 1891. He was the son of Walter Hughson and Mary
Herbert (Marcus) Hughson. He married Mildred Curtis in 1917;
the Hughsons had four children. Walter Hughson died from pneumococcic
meningitis on 13 September 1944 in Abington, Pennsylvania.
Hughson received his B.S. from Princeton University in 1914.
He received his M.D. from the Medical School of Johns Hopkins
University in 1918. Hughson served internships at the Hospital
of Johns Hopkins University and the Union Protestant Infirmary,
then, at Johns Hopkins, was Assistant and Instructor in Anatomy,
Associate in Applied Anatomy and Surgery, Associate Professor
of Surgery and Associate Surgeon, Associate in Clinical Surgery,
Associate in Research Otology, and, finally, Associate Professor
of Otology.
In 1935, Hughson came to Philadelphia as Director of the Otological
Research Laboratory at Abington Memorial Hospital. He was also
instructor in otology at the University of Pennsylvania's School
of Medicine and associate in otology at the Graduate School
of Medicine. Hughson served as a consultant to the Bureau of
Child Hygiene, the U.S. Public Health Service, the U.S. Navy
Aural Rehabilitation Program, and the Department of Psychology
at Princeton University. He was also associated with the Pennsylvania
School for the Deaf. He was instrumental in establishing a
center for aural rehabilitation at the U.S. Naval Hospital in
Philadelphia. Hughson was known for his development of the
round window graft operation for deafness.
Walter Hughson was a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology
and Otolaryngology, American Laryngological, Rhinological, and
Otological Society, American Medical Association, American Otological
Society, the Baltimore City Medical Society, the Medical and
Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and the Southern Surgical Association.
He was elected to fellowship in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
in 1937.
Scope and contents
This collection of Walter Hughson's papers, 1921-1945, including
his correspondence, records of research and work on special
projects, writings, and lectures, documents his professional
work in otology, particularly the aural rehabilitation of soldiers
deafened in war and hearing aid development.
The collection is divided into four series. Series 1 contains
Hughson's correspondence with colleagues on various otological
or surgical matters, including the treatment of headaches with
sodium chloride and the relationship of mumps to deafness.
Notable items in the series are correspondence with the American
Hearing Aid Association and the American Society for the Hard
of Hearing; a letter, 7 November 1928, from J. F. Baldwin discussing
pre operative and post operative surgical care; and six folders
of correspondence with Antonio Ciocco of the U.S. Public Health Service
concerning the prevention of deafness in children and clinical
studies of children at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
in Philadelphia.
Records of Hughson's work on certain projects and research programs,
1935-1945, are contained in Series 2. The series includes Hughson's
speech sound analysis research at Abington Memorial Hospital;
correspondence with the American Academy of Ophthalmology and
Otolaryngology, its Committee on the Conservation of Hearing,
and Pennsylvania Subcommittee concerning the rehabilitation
of soldiers deafened in war; correspondence, particularly with
Howard A. Carter, reports, and research data from Hughson's evaluations
of hearing aids for the American Medical Association's Council
on Physical Therapy; correspondence and a manual concerning
the prevention of deafness in children from the Committee on
Deafness Prevention and Amelioration of the Medical Society
of the State of Pennsylvania; and a hearing survey performed
at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Due to Hughson's sudden demise
in 1944, the information on many of these projects, although
extensive, is incomplete.
An assortment of Walter Hughson's manuscripts, 1922-1944, generally
on otological subjects, such as audiometry and ear examination,
is preserved in Series 3; some related correspondence is included.
The series also contains bibliographies, a book review, and
Hughson's discussions of papers by Edmund Prince Fowler and
K. M. Day.
Series 4 contains notes, outlines, lists of slides, and abstracts
of individual lectures delivered by Hughson on otological subjects,
1936-1944; several of these lectures were given to the Section
on Otolaryngology of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
The series also containsjoutlines and general information
on lecture courses on audiometry, hearing aids, and the teaching
of deaf children, 1936-1944, given by Hughson at Abington Memorial
Hospital, Northwestern University, the Pennsylvania School for
the Deaf, and the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of
Medicine.
Provenance
Notes on several of the collection's original folders indicated
that M.C.H. [Mildred Curtis Hughson?] reviewed the material
in July 1946; the papers were later sent to the Historical Library
of the Yale University School of Medicine. In 1971, Mrs. Walter
Hughson approached the College of Physicians concerning the
donation of her husband's papers, as Yale wished to dispose
of the collection. The papers were received by the College
of Physicians circa 8 June 1971; at that time, Walter Hughson's patient
records were removed from the collection and assumed by his
former associate, Dr. Joseph Sataloff of Philadelphia.
The collection was isolated on the 7th floor of the Library Cage
in 1988 and processed and catalogued in 1990.
1921-1945
5 boxes (1.5 cubic feet)
4/11/1990
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