Merl B. Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-0918
Collection Organization
The Merl B. Smith papers consist primarily of personal papers and teaching notes that he used during his years as a medical educator associated with Flower Hospital from the 1950s through the 1970s.
The collection also includes miscellaneous notes, papers, and publications associated with Smith's service with the U.S. Army Air Force as a flight surgeon.
Those books that relate directly to medical education in Toledo, particularly the yearbook, The Creed, from the Flower Hospital School of Nursing, and others associated directly with Smith were retained in the collection. Other general medical texts have been transferred out of the collection.
Lecture/speech: Addison's Disease and Addisonian crisis, February 1950
File – Box 1, Folder: 1
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- Creation: February 1950
Lecture/speech: Diabetes, May 2, 1950
File – Box 1, Folder: 2
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- Creation: May 2, 1950
Lecture/speech: Panel on Evaluation of Risks for Surgery, January 28, 1955
File – Box 1, Folder: 3
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- Creation: January 28, 1955
Lecture/speech: Recent advances in the knowledge of diabetes, February 16, 1955
File – Box 1, Folder: 4
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- Creation: February 16, 1955
Lecture/speech: Panel on diabetes (final draft), October 1956
File – Box 1, Folder: 5
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- Creation: October 1956
Lecture/speech: Relationship of obesity and diet to heart disease, March 19, 1957
File – Box 1, Folder: 6
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- Creation: March 19, 1957
Lecture/speech: Status of the new oral insulin substitutes, March 20, 1957
File – Box 1, Folder: 7
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- Creation: March 20, 1957
Lecture/speech: Orinase, its physiological actions and its clinical, November 20, 1957?
File – Box 1, Folder: 8
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- Creation: November 20, 1957?
Lecture/speech: The Anemias, diagnosis & treatment, March 4, 1958
File – Box 1, Folder: 9
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- Creation: March 4, 1958
Lecture/speech: Recent advances in the physiology of the Adrenals, November 24, 1958
File – Box 1, Folder: 10
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- Creation: November 24, 1958
Lecture/speech: Talk on diabetes before the Practical Nurses' Assn., October 20, 1959
File – Box 1, Folder: 11
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- Creation: October 20, 1959
Lecture/speech: Graduation Flower Hospital School of Nursing, August 31, 1962
File – Box 1, Folder: 12
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- Creation: August 31, 1962
Lecture/speech: Diabetes and Ketoacidosis, August 27, 1975
File – Box 1, Folder: 13
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- Creation: August 27, 1975
Lecture/speech: Medicine as a career (note cards), undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 14
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- Creation: undated
Lecture/speech: Miscellaneous notes, references, etc., undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 15
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- Creation: undated
Student nursing teaching notes: endocrinology, 1950s-1970s
File – Box 1, Folder: 16
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- Creation: 1950s-1970s
Student nursing teaching notes: endocrine pamphlets, aids, articles, 1950s-1970s
File – Box 1, Folder: 17
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- Creation: 1950s-1970s
Student nursing teaching notes: leukemia, 1957-1972
File – Box 1, Folder: 18
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- Creation: 1957-1972
Student nursing teaching notes: hematology, 1952-1967
File – Box 1, Folder: 19
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- Creation: 1952-1967
Student nursing teaching notes: postpartum procedures, undated
File – Box 1, Folder: 20
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- Creation: undated
Student nursing teaching notes: PCO syndrome, 1986
File – Box 1, Folder: 21
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- Creation: 1986
Intern lecture notes, 1952-1960
File – Box 1, Folder: 22
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- Creation: 1952-1960
U.S. Army Air Forces lecture notes, 1943-1944
File – Box 2, Folder: 1
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- Creation: 1943-1944
City Hospital (Cleveland, Ohio) Departments of Pediatrics and Contagious Diseases. Information and Procedures. Cleveland, Ohio : The Hospital, 1940
File – Box 2, Folder: 2
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- Creation: 1940
USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. Flight surgeon's handbook / prepared under the Direction of the Commandant, School of Aviation Medicine, Army Air Forces. 2nd edition. Randolph Field, Texas : The School, 1943
File – Box 2, Folder: 3
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- Creation: 1943
United States. Army Air Forces. Air Service Command. Pilots' information file / by Army Air Forces. Washington : Army Air Forces, 1944
File – Box 2, Folder: 4
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- Creation: 1944
Notes on tropical diseases for air forces medical officers. New York : Arctic, Desert and Tropic Information Center, 1944?
File – Box 2, Folder: 5
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- Creation: 1944?
The Air surgeon's bulletin. Dayton, Ohio, Aero Medical Laboratory, Engineering Division, Air Technical Service Command, Wright Field, [Washington] G.P.O., Jan-Feb 1944
File – Box 2, Folder: 6
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- Creation: Jan-Feb 1944
United States. Army Air Forces. Your body in flight / prepared by Aero Medical Laboratory, Engineering Division. Dayton, Ohio : Maintenance Data Section, Maintenance Division, Air Technical Service Command, Wright Field, 1944
File – Box 2, Folder: 7
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- Creation: 1944
United States. Army Air Forces. Physiology of flight : human factors in the operation of military aircraft. Washington, 1945
File – Box 2, Folder: 8
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- Creation: 1945
Office plaque "To All My Patients", undated
File – Box 2, Folder: 9
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- Creation: undated