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    • Author/Creator:Lindskog, Gustaf Elmer, 1903-2002.
    • Title:Gustaf E. Lindskog papers, 1929-1987.
    • Physical Description:2.5 linear feet (5 boxes)
    • Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
    • Yale Holdings

       
    • Notes:In English.
      Donated by Carl Lindskog, 2011. These papers were owned by Gustaf E. Lindskog.
    • Organization:Organized in seven series: 1. Yale University School of Medicine Department of Surgery. 2. Lectures before various groups. 3. Medical drawings and photographs for some of Lindskog's publications. 4. Miscellany. 5. Reprints of Lindskog's papers. 6. Notes on surgical operations (restricted). 7. Lindskog's history of surgery lectures at Yale.
    • Access and use:Boxes 1, 2, and 5 are open for research. Boxes 3 and 4 are restricted because they contain patient information.
    • Biographical / Historical note:Gustaf E. Lindskog, thoracic surgeon at Yale, was born in Boston in 1903. He graduated from the Massachusettts Agricultural College (now University of Massachusetts) in 1923, and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1928. His interned at Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland. From 1929 to 1932, he was a resident in surgery at Yale. The following year he was a National Research Council Fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. In 1933, he returned to Yale as instructor of surgery and rose through the ranks to become the William Carmalt Professor of Surgery in 1948. Lindskog chaired the department from 1948 to 1966. In 1971 he retired but remained active in the Yale community. During World War II, he served for four years as a commander in the Navy Medical Corps and was stationed part of the time at the Philadelphia Naval Yard. In 1943, he worked with Louis S. Goodman and Alfred Gilman on the development of chemotherapy at Yale. They used nitrogen mustard in the treatment of a patient with lymphosarcoma. Lindskog was widely recognized for his contributions to thoracic surgery. He pioneered in the surgical resection of chronic pulmonary abscess. In addition to his many research articles, he was co-author with Averill Liebow and William Glenn on three editions of a major textbook of thoracic surgery, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery with Related Pathology (1953, 1962, 1975). He died at the age of 99 in 2002.
    • Summary:The collection contains reports of the Thoracic Service at Yale, statistics of various other related operations; lists of surgical residents; typescripts of lectures before various groups; medical illustrations by Armin Hemberger and photographic illustrations for some of Lindskog's papers; manuscripts of possibly unpublished papers; reprints of Lindskog's articles; and Lindskog'a annual history of surgery lecture at Yale on various topics as part of a history of surgery series sponsored by the department of surgery. The restricted boxes contain descriptions of Lindskog's surgical operations on named patients.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Cite as:Gustaf E. Lindskog Papers, Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT
    • Subjects:Harvey, Samuel Clark, 1886-1953.
      Hemberger, Armin B., 1896-1974.
      Lindskog, Gustaf Elmer, 1903-2002.
      Grace-New Haven Community Hospital.
      Harvard Medical School.
      New Haven Hospital (New Haven, Conn.)
      Lakeside Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio)
      Yale-New Haven Hospital.
      Yale University. Department of Surgery.
      Yale University. School of Medicine.
      Chest--Surgery.
      Diaphragmatic hernia.
      Lungs--Cancer.
      Medicine--History.
      Operations, Surgical.
      Residents (Medicine)
      Surgery--History.
      Tuberculosis--Surgery.
    • Genre/Form:Correspondence.
      Drawings (visual works)
      Medical records.
      Photographs.
    • Occupation:Surgeons Connecticut
      Thoracic surgeons Connecticut