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Descriptive Summary
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Series Descriptions
Series I: Correspondence,
1890-1940
Series II: Personal and Biographical,
1879-1940
Series III: Writings and Lectures,
1895-1939
Series IV: Research,
1901-1924
Series V: Professional Activities,
1890-1925
Series VI: Clippings and Printed Matter,
1899-1940
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| Collection Number: | MS C 41 |
| Creator: | Knopf, Sigard Adolphus, 1857-1940 |
| Title: | Sigard Adolphus Knopf Papers
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| Dates: | 1879-1940 |
| Quantity: | 5.67 linear feet (14 boxes) |
| Abstract: | S. Adolphus Knopf was the author of over 400 books, brochures, and articles of tuberculosis, school hygiene, pneumonia, medical biography, birth control, alcoholism, and other medical and social subjects. Among the subjects dicussed in the correspondence are tuberculosis, controlled diaphragmatic respiration, birth control, cremation and burial, and psychical research. |
S. Adolphus Knopf (1857-1940) was a pioneer in the campaign for research and treatment of tuberculosis, and spent his entire career combating the disease. His landmark work Pulmonary tuberculosis: its modern prophylaxis and the treatment in special institutions and at home, was the first text book of its kind to appear in English, and won the Alvarenga Prize of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1899. His article "Tuberculosis as a disease of the masses and how to combat it," received the International Congress Prize in 1900. Knopf received numerous other awards for his essays and articles on combating the disease. As part of his public health work, Knopf traveled the world, lecturing on preventative techniques and working to help establish sanitaria, special hospitals, dispensaries, open-air schools and anti-tuberculosis associations. In 1902, he was one of the men responsible for the movement that launched the Committee on the Prevention of Tuberculosis of the Charity Organization Society of New York City. The aim of the committee was to disseminate information that TB was a communicable, preventable, and curable disease. The Committee advanced the movement for hospitals, sanatoriums, and dispensaries for consumptive adults and children. As a result of his focus on the need for a national TB association, in 1904 a voluntary health agency was organized under the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, later renamed the National Tuberculosis Association (NTA) and now known as the American Lung Association. Knopf was the author of over 400 books, brochures, and articles of tuberculosis, school hygiene, pneumonia, medical biography, birth control, alcoholism, and other medical and social subjects.
Brief Chronology
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| 1857 | Born halle an der Saale, Germany, November 27, 1857 |
| 1888 | M.D., Bellevue Hospital Medical College (New York University) |
| 1889 | Married Perle Nora Dyar (d. Dec. 24, 1931) |
| 1890 | A.B., University of Paris (Sorbonne) |
| 1895 | M.D., Faculty of Medicine, University of Paris |
| 1898 | Alvarenga Prize. College of Physicians, Philadelphia |
| 1899 | Published the essay Tuberculosis as a disease of the masses, and how to combat it for which he received International Tuberculosis Congress prize in 1900 |
| 1901 | Official delegate. Tuberculosis Congress, London |
| 1904 | Advocated the formation of a national tuberculosis association; instrumental in founding of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis |
| 1904-10 | Associate Director of the New York Municipal Tuberculosis Clinics |
| 1904-23 | Physician, Riverside Hospital-Sanatorium |
| 1905 | Official delegate. Tuberculosis Congress, Paris |
| 1906-22 | Senior Visiting Physician of the New York City Health Department |
| 1908 | Vice President. Sect. V of Tuberculosis Congress, Washington. Received prize for the essay, The relation of atmospheric air to tuberculosis |
| 1908-20 | Professor of Phthisiotherapy, New York Post-Graduate Medical School |
| 1913 | Official delegate, 4th International Congress on School Hygiene, Buffalo |
| 1920 | Tuberculosis specialist, U.S.P.H.S. |
| 1932 | Representative of the United States at the International Union against Tuberculosis, The Hague, Holland |
| 1935 | Married Julia Marie Off |
| 1940 | Died in New York, July 15, 1940 |
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The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, writings by Knopf, and clippings from journals and newspapers created over the course of his entire career, beginning in medical school. The correspondence includes letters from many historical figures, including (but not limited to) Sir William Osler, Robert Koch, Margaret Sanger, Simon Flexner, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockfeller. The tuberculosis clippings subseries in Series VI is arranged alphabetically by author's last name. The bulk of the material is in English, although there are several pieces in other languages, mostly German and French.
The Knopf Papers may be of special interest to those researching the history of tuberculosis and treatment, the history of birth control, and cremation and burial practices. The bulk of the Bruno Heymann correspondence deals with Knopf's efforts from 1934-1935 to bring Heymann from Germany to the United States, and may be of interest to those researching displaced foreign physicians and scholars during this time period. Also of note are two instances where Knopf's authority on tuberculosis was misused. Knopf's was involved in a newspaper slander case in 1907, as well as a dispute over an endorsement of Terpezone, a tuberculosis treatment, in 1933.
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Restrictions
Restrictions
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Copyright
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| These terms are indexed in the National Library of Medicine's online catalog LocatorPlus. Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the catalog using these terms. |
| MeSH Subjects |
| | Family Planning Services |
| | Mortuary Practice |
| | Parapsychology |
| | Respiration, Artificial |
| | Tuberculosis |
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Knopf, Sigard Adolphus. Sigard Adolphus Knopf Papers. 1879-1940. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; MS C 41.
Gift from Mrs. S.A. Knopf, 1942-1950.
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Series I: Correspondence,
1890-1940
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| Box | Folder |
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Chronological |
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Undated,
n.d. |
| 1 | 2 | | 1890-1904 |
| 1 | 3 | | 1905 |
| 1 | 4 | | 1906-1908 |
| 1 | 5 | | 1909 |
| 6 | | 1910-1912 |
| 1 | 7 | | 1913-1920 |
| 1 | 8 | | 1921 |
| 1 | 9 | | 1922 |
| 1 | 10 | | January-March 1923 |
| 2 | 1 | | April-December 1923 |
| 2 | 2 | | 1924 |
| 2 | 3 | | 1925-1927 |
| 2 | 4 | | 1928-1929 |
| 2 | 5 | | 1930-1931 |
| 2 | 6 | | 1932 |
| 2 | 7 | | January-June 1933 |
| 2 | 8 | | July-December 1933 |
| 2 | 9 | | January-June 1934 |
| 3 | 1 | | July-December 1934 |
| 3 | 2 | | 1935 |
| 3 | 3 | | 1936 |
| 3 | 4 | | January-June 1937 |
| 3 | 5 | | July-December 1937 |
| 3 | 6 | | 1938 |
| 3 | 7 | | 1939 |
| 3 | 8 | | January-June 1940 |
| 3 | 9 |
Drafts,
n.d. |
| 3 | 10 |
Personal Correspondence,
1889-1932 |
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Individuals and Organizations,
n.d. |
| 4 | 1 | |
Cleveland, Grover,
1906 |
| 4 | 2 | |
Coolidge, Calvin,
1925 |
| 4 | 3 | |
Harding, Warren G.,
1922 |
| 4 | 4 | |
Heymann, Bruno,
1932-1935 |
| 4 | 5 | |
Jacobi, Abraham,
1904-1909 |
| 4 | 6 | |
Knopf, Julia M.,
1940-1941 |
| 4 | 7 | |
Koch, Robert,
1903-1910 |
| 4 | 8 | |
Koch, Mrs. Robert,
1908-1937 |
| 4 | 9 | |
Morton, W.T.G.,
1920-1939 |
| 4 | 10 | |
Osler, William,
1904-1919 |
| 4 | 11 | |
Roosevelt, Theodore,
1911-1913 |
| 4 | 12 | |
Welch, William H.,
1917-1932 |
| 4 | 13 | |
Correspondence Relating to Essay,
1900 |
| 4 | 14 | |
Newspaper Slander,
1909 |
| 4 | 15 | |
Society and Association Membership,
1896-1931 |
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Series II: Personal and Biographical,
1879-1940
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| Box | Folder |
| 4 | 16 |
Biographical Sketch,
1940 |
| 4 | 17 |
Blizzard Class (Bellevue, 1888) Reunions,
1923-1939 |
| 4 | 18 |
Certificates and Affidavits,
1879-1934 |
| 4 | 19 |
Certificates-Societies and Associations,
1896-1939 |
| 4 | 20 |
Clippings-Knopf Obituaries,
July, 1940 |
| 4 | 21 |
Souveniers of Boyhood,
1879 |
| Map Drawer #14 | |
Certificates, Diplomas, and Documents,
n.d. |
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Series III: Wrtitings and Lectures,
1895-1939
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| Box | Folder |
| 4 | 22 |
History of the Anti-Tuberculosis Movement,
n.d. |
| 4 | 23 |
Notes,
n.d. |
| 4 | 24 |
Poetry,
n.d. |
| 4 | 25 |
Speeches,
n.d. |
| 4 | 26 |
Tuberculosis Articles,
n.d. |
| 5 | 1 |
Bibliographic Information,
n.d. |
| 5 | 2 |
Birth Control Articles,
n.d. |
| 2 | 3 |
Birth Control Galley Proof,
n.d. |
| 2 | 4 |
"Cremation versus Burial",
April 1932 |
| 2 | 5 |
General Articles,
n.d. |
| 2 | 6 |
Knopf Anthology,
January 1917 |
| 2 | 7 |
"Modern Medicine in the United States",
n.d. |
| 2 | 8 |
Morton, W.T.G.,
1920-1921 |
| 2 | 9 |
"The Three Greatest Things on Earth",
n.d. |
| 2 | 10 |
Tributes,
1910-1939 |
| 2 | 11 |
Reviews: Report to the U.S. Government on Tuberculosis with Suggestions,
1933-1934 |
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Booklets on tuberculosis and treatment, mostly Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses, and How to Combat It [translations in various languages],
1899-1938 |
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"The Valuable Adjuvants in the Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Essay in competition for the Alvarenga Prize of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia" [translations in various languages],
1924-1925 |
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"On the Relation of Atmospheric Air to Tuberculosis" [translations in various languages],
n.d. |
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"Preventive Medicine and its Mission as a Physical, Moral and Social Factor in the Improvement of the Race" [translations in various languages],
n.d. |
| 7 | |
"State Control of Tuberculosis" [translations in various languages],
n.d. |
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Scrapbook of reviews of Pulmonary Tuberculosis,
1899-1900 |
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Index to reviews of Pulmonary Tuberculosis,
1899-1900 |
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Scrapbook of reviews of Tuberculosis: A Preventable and Curable Disease,
1907-1918 |
| 8 | |
Index to Reviews of Tuberculosis: A Preventable and Curable Disease,
1907-1918 |
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Scrapbook of reviews of Les Sanatoria and Tuberculosis as a Disease of the Masses, and How to Combat it,
1895-1908 |
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Scrapbook of Notices of Lectures and Programs,
1899-1927 |
| 9 | |
Index to Lectures,
1899-1927 |
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Series IV: Research,
1901-1924
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| Box | Folder |
| 10 | 1 |
Case Notes,
1901-1924 |
| 10 | 2 |
Chemical Notes,
n.d. |
| 10 | 3 |
Medical Notes and Photos,
n.d. |
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Series V: Professional Activities,
1890-1925
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| Box | Folder |
| 10 | 4 |
Faculté de Médecine de Paris,
1890-1894 |
| 10 | 5 |
Newspaper Slander Materials,
1907-1908 |
| 10 | 6 |
Notes,
1902-1925 |
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Series VI: Clippings and Printed Matter,
1899-1940
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| Box | Folder |
| 11 | 1 |
General,
1899-1909; n.d. |
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Programs and Invitations |
| 11 | 2 | |
1899-1909,
1899-1909 |
| 11 | 3 | |
1910-1914,
1910-1914 |
| 11 | 4 | |
1915-1919,
1915-1919 |
| 11 | 5 | |
1920-1926,
1920-1926 |
| 11 | 6 |
Psychical Research,
n.d. |
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Tuberculosis Clippings,
Mostly 1899-1901 |
| 11 | 7 | |
A |
| 11 | 8 | |
B |
| 11 | 9 | |
C |
| 11 | 10 | |
D |
| 11 | 11 | |
E |
| 11 | 12 | |
F |
| 11 | 13 | |
H-K |
| 11 | 14 | |
L |
| 11 | 15 | |
M |
| 11 | 16 | |
N-O |
| 11 | 17 | |
P |
| 11 | 18 | |
R |
| 11 | 19 | |
S |
| 11 | 20 | |
T |
| 11 | 21 | |
W |
| 11 | 22 | |
Various |
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Press Clippings Scrapbooks |
| 12 | | |
1899-1905,
1899-1905 |
| 12 | | |
1905-1908,
1905-1908 |
| 13 | | |
1907-1940,
1907-1940 |
| 13 | | |
1908-1912,
1908-1912 |
| 14 | | |
1912-1915,
1912-1915 |
| 14 | | |
1915-1917,
1915-1917 |
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