University of Oklahoma Libraries
Western History
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Dr. Louis C.
Kuyrkendall Collection
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Box 1 Correspondence and Medical Examination Reports
to the Department of Public Welfare
Includes
physician's reports, authorizations on eye examinations, authorizations for
service and care, medical social histories, artificial appliance orders, etc..
1. "A",
1944-1950
This
file also contains "Department of Public Health, State of Oklahoma, rules,
regulations and instructions to local health officers for the control and
suppression of contagious and infectious venereal diseases."
2. "B",
1941-1951
3. "C",
1941-1951
4. "D",
1941-1951
5. "E",
1943-1951
6. "F",
1940-1955
7. "G",
1937-1949
8. "H",
1939-1954
9. "I"
& "J", 1940-1949
Box 2 Correspondence and Medical Examination Reports
to the Department of Public Welfare
1. "K",
1942-1951
2. "L",
1937-1952
3. "M",
1938-1954
4. "N"
& "O", 1943-1951
5. "P"
& "Q", 1937-1949
6. "R",
1937-1953
7. "S",
1941-1954
8. "T",
1941-1953
9. "U"
- "Y", 1937-1953
Box 3 Correspondence Regarding Medical Examinations
(Compensation Cases)
Includes
historiological and physical examination reports; correspondence with other
physicians, hospitals, patients and insurance companies; disability forms filed
with the Veteran's Bureau, State Insurance Fund, U.S. Employees' Compensation
Commission; etc..
1. "A",
1931-1946
2. "B",
1931-1944
3. "C",
1925-1951
4. "D",
1925-1941
5. "E"
& "F", 1924-1943
6. "G",
1922-1942
7. "H",
1925-1944
8. "I"
& "J", 1925-1943
Box 4 Correspondence Regarding Medical Examinations
(Compensation Cases)
1. "K"
& "L", 1928-1946
2. "M",
1926-1951
3. "N"
& "O", 1926-1938
4. "P",
1926-1947
5. "R",
1922-1944
6. "S",
1928-1944
Includes
letter from Congressman Paul Stewart about the Wagner-Murray Bill, and
information re. Selective Service physical standards.
Box 5 Correspondence Regarding Medical Examinations
(Compensation Cases)
1. "T",
1939-1943
2. "U"
- "Z", 1925-1940
General Correspondence
Correspondence
with other physicians, hospitals and insurance companies; financial records including
receipts, statements, etc.; records and correspondence pertaining to fraternal
organizations such as the American Legion and the Masons, and governmental
agencies such as the Department of Public Health, Council of National Defense,
and the Internal Revenue Service; and telegrams, Christmas cards, etc.. Also includes information on medical
activities during World War I, and the use of narcotics for medicinal purposes.
3. "A"
& "B", 1914-1922
4. "C"
- "F", 1915-1922
5. "G"
- "M", 1914-1921
Information
on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway Employees' Hospital Association.
6. "N"
- "P", 1913-1922
7. "R"
- "Z", 1918-1919
Includes
referrals for physical examinations from the Treasury Department, U.S. Public
Health Service.
8. "A"
- "Z", 1934-1954
Includes
material pertaining to the Oklahoma State Medical Association.
Box 6 Correspondence and Medical Information
1. Personal
correspondence, 1906-1930
Includes
correspondence from family and friends, birthday cards, valentine cards,
wedding announcements, etc.. Also
includes sale contract giving one-half interest in Dr. G.E. Hartshorne's
medical practice to Dr. L.C. Kuyrkendall, July 17, 1913.
2. Personal
correspondence, 1943-1955
3. Correspondence
regarding organizational activities, 1940-1955
Includes
materials pertaining to the Lions Club, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of
Free Masonry, McAlester Country Club, LeFlore County Medical Society, and
McAlester Chamber of Commerce.
4. Correspondence
with servicemen, 1932, 1944-1945
5. Medical
Information I, 1853, 1859, 1885
Prescription
book that belonged to Kuyrkendall's grandfather (1853?). Includes recipes for concocting various
liniments, ointments, powders, cordials, pills, plasters, drops, and syrups.
Correspondence
from R.A. Kuykendale, Northfork Henry County, Tennessee, to his cousin
regarding the move of Lewis Kuykendale to Texas, as well as information about
other relatives, September 24, 1885.
"Recipe
for Curing Sore Eyes," written by Ambrose G. Williams of Bentonville,
Benton County, Arkansas, March 15, 1859.
Includes tonic for toning and regulating the system, application of
medicine to the eyes, the eye water, and eye tonic or powders.
6. Medical
Information II, 1924-1936
Includes
"Chapman's Percentage Vision Table," a day-by-day appointment diary,
compensation rating for eye injuries, patient list including diagnosis, and
various medical forms. Also includes correspondence
regarding patient medical examinations.
Box 7 Physical Examination Reports for Civil
Aeronautics Administration
Eye,
ear, nose, throat, and equilibrium examinations for airman certificate,
civilian pilot training, etc.. Also
includes correspondence.
1. "A"
& "B", 1938-1952
2. "C"
& "D", 1935-1943
3. "E"
- "J", 1938-1954
4. "K"
- "O", 1940-1953
5. "P"
- "T", 1939-1951
6 "U"
- "Z", 1935-1952
Box 8 Physical Examination Reports for the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas (MK & T) Railroad
Local
surgeon's reports including statement of injured person. Also includes correspondence.
1. "A"
- "C", 1916-1949
2. "D"
- "J", 1916-1952
3. "K"
- "R", 1918-1952
4. "S"
- "Z", 1917-1952
Box 9 State Defense Committee Materials, and
Memorabilia
1. State
Defense Committee, 1941-1945
Includes
radio address by Robert S. Kerr (February 3, 1945); "Medical Defense
Rules;" Bulletins of the State Defense Committees, Committee on Health and
Housing; organization charts of the State Health and Housing Committee;
correspondence; rosters of State Defense Committee members; etc.
Embossed
reading glasses case.
Selective
Service medal and pin.
Lions
Club banner.
Several
Lions Club pins.
American
Legion Past Commanders medal, 1923.
World
War I service medal.
Captain's
bars and medical insignia.
Civil
War group reunion medal.
Printer's
block with picture of Dr. L.C. Kuyrkendall.
Box 10 Civil Aeronautics Administration,
Printed Materials
"Air
Commerce Regulations", 1934
"Notice
to Amateur and Student Pilots", 1935
"Civil
Air Regulations", 1937, 1938, 1940
"Manual
for Medical Examiners", 1938
"Aircraft
Accidents and Casualties", 1938
"Civil
Aeronautics in the U.S.", 1937
"Safety
Regulations", 1940s
"Civilian
Pilot Training", 1942
"Handbook
for Medical Examiners", 1946, 1948, 1954
"Physical
Standards for Aircraft Pilots", 1936
Various
physical examination forms.
Various
correspondence and memoranda., 1939-55
Box 11 Legal Correspondence regarding case
no. 6211: Louesa Newman and husband,
Pauline Palmer and husband, and Mary Inez Temple and husband vs. Antonia Cobb
and husband, L.C. Kuyrkendall and wife, O.A. Kuyrkendall and wife, and the
D.O.K. Land and Cattle Company
1. Newman
et. al. vs. Cobb et. al., case no. 6211, legal documents.
Includes
letter regarding the will of Mr. J.O. Kuyrkendall, deceased, 1935; journal
entry for case no. 6211 providing the final judgment in the case, May 24, 1949;
contracts for rental, and for sale and purchase of real estate, 1947; and
various agreements of individual stockholders of the D.O.K. Land and Cattle
Company, Aug. 20, 1948.
2. Newman
et. al. vs. Cobb et. al. - correspondence, 1943-1944
3. Newman
et. al. vs. Cobb et. al. - correspondence, 1946
4. Newman
et. al. vs. Cobb et. al. - correspondence, 1947
5. Newman
et. al. vs. Cobb et. al. - correspondence, 1948
6. Newman
et. al. vs. Cobb et. al. - correspondence, 1949-1954
Construction of the Kuyrkendall Will Case, one volume, includes
Brief of Plaintiffs in Error, Brief of Defendants in Error, and Reply Brief of
Plaintiffs in Error, and journal pages for Supreme Court of the State of
Oklahoma, case no. 33,391, Cobb et. al. vs. Newman, et. al..
Box 12 Medical Reserve Corps Communications,
1917-1929
Lewis
C. Kuyrkendall served as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, U.S.
Army. The folders in box 12 contain
correspondence, official communications including orders, and printed materials.
1. 1917: Includes Kuyrkendall's orders to report to
Commandant, Medical Officers Training Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
2. 1918:
Includes letters from U.S. Senator Robert L. Owen.
3. 1919
4. 1920-1922:
Includes information re. Kuyrkendall's appointment in the Officers' Reserve
Corps.
5. 1923-1926
6. 1928-1929:
Includes letters from U.S. Congressmen including Wilburn Cartwright.
7. 1930-1931
and 1935: Includes Unit Mobilization Plan and Training Map for Fort Sam
Houston, Texas.
Box 13 Published Material by Kuyrkendall
"The Ear in
the Recent Influenza Epidemic," by L.C. Kuyrkendall, Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, March 1920,
reprint.
"Elongated
Uvula," by L.C. Kuyrkendall, Journal
of the Oklahoma State Medical Association, December 1945, reprint.
"Blue
Sclera," by L.C. Kuyrkendall, Oklahoma
State Medical Journal, December 1934, reprint.
"Coloboma of
Iris, Congenital," by L.C. Kuyrkendall, Oklahoma State Medical Journal, August 1929, reprint.
"Injuries of
the Eye," by L.C. Kuyrkendall, Oklahoma
State Medical Journal, July 1928, reprint.
"Rodent Ulcer
Lymphosarcoma; Carcinoma," by L.C. Kuyrkendall, Oklahoma State Medical Journal, January 1929, reprint.
"Tonsils as
Foci of Infection," by L.C. Kuyrkendall, Oklahoma State Medical Association, September 1931, reprint.
Leroy Long:
Teacher of Medicine by Basil A. Hayes, 1943.
Box 14 Manuscripts and Notes
1. Papers
by L.C. Kuyrkendall presented at meetings or in the Journal of the Oklahoma State Medical Association.
"Atypical
Mastoiditis," April 1916.
"Sarcoma
of the Orbit," June 1932.
"The
Frontal Sinuses," May 1921.
"Injuries
of the Eye," May 1928.
"Focal
Infection," April 1925.
"Coloboma
of Iris, Congenital," May 1929.
"Is
the Middle Turbinate Bone Essential," May 1917.
"Tuberculosis
of the Throat, Diagnosis and Treatment," June 1934.
"Blue
Sclera," May 1934.
"Playing
the Game," May 1920.
"Tonsils
as Foci of Infection," December 1930.
"Compulsory
Health Insurance," n.d..
2. Notes on
various topics, handwritten.
"Heart
Block."
"Diseases
of the Ear."
"Adenoids."
"Injuries
of the Cornea."
3. Case
Histories (5), 1920-1933
4-6. Notebooks
(3) kept by L.C. Kuyrkendall while a student in the Medical Department at St.
Louis University. Include class notes and drawings, 1906-1907, 1907-1908, 1910.
Box 15 Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad
Company Reports; Tax Forms; Oklahoma State Medical Association Correspondence
and Bulletins; Commissioners of the Land Office Forms; State Industrial
Commission Reports
1. Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Railroad Company memoranda and forms, physical examination forms of MK&T
personnel, and related correspondence (Kuyrkendall acted as a medical examiner
for the Railroad), 1934-1955.
2. Tax
Forms including assessment lists and employer's tax returns filed with the
Internal Revenue Service, 1920-1948.
3. Oklahoma
State Medical Association bulletins, reports, meeting minutes, copies of
constitution and by-laws, and related correspondence, 1937-1950.
4. Commissioners
of the Land Office amortization notes, mortgages and deeds, and related
correspondence, 1922-1944.
5. State
Industrial Commission attending physician's reports (accident reports N.A.D.),
1943-1944.
Box 16 Class Notes from Medical School;
Appointment Books
Class
notes (19 notebooks) taken by L.C. Kuyrkendall while a medical student at St.
Louis University, 1907-1910.
Appointment
Books (8) listing patient names arranged by date and time, 1948-1955.
Box 17 Account Books and Notes
Account
books (6), some entitled "Physicians' Diary" showing date, name of
patient, service rendered, amount of fee, and whether credit or bill paid,
1919-1950.
Notes
(5 notebooks) in shorthand, 1930-1932.
Class
notes (4 notebooks) taken by L.C. Kuyrkendall while a medical student at St.
Louis University, 1906-1910.
Notes
(1 notebook) taken by Kuyrkendall of lecture by Professor Erich Ruttin, 1932.
Box 18-20 Miscellaneous Publications
Boxes
18 - 20 contain publications such as medical and pharmaceutical bulletins,
newsletters and journals; medical and surgical supply catalogs; conference
meeting programs; pamphlets dealing with medical subjects; reprints of articles
on medical subjects; government manuals and handbooks; Oklahoma State Medical
Association publications; etc.. Most of
these publications deal with Kuyrkendall's medical specialties: eye, ear, nose and throat. Titles include The Continental Digest, Pharmacal Advance, Ciba Symposia, Optical
Developments, Bulletin of Practical Ophthalmology, The Journal of the American
Medical Association, Digest of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, Current
Medical Digest, Roche Review, Medical Economics, Monographs for Physicians
series, Clinical Symposia, and Clinical Excerpts.
Box 20
contains a copy of the Culver Military
Academy Yearbook, Culver, Indiana, 1907; and two copies of A Chart of Diseases of the Lungs, Pleurae,
Bronchi, Trachea and Larynx by Edward Hill, 1901.
Physician's Daily Record (12 books),
include date, name of patient, service rendered, charge, cash, and received on
account, 1941-52.
Account ledgers (32 ledgers), some titled day books, which include
credits/debits, date, name of patient, and address, 1912-52.
Certificates
and Diplomas
1. 1930
Appointment to Major in the Medical Corps in the U.S. Army.
2. 1929
Appointment to Captain in the Medical Corps in the U.S. Army (2 copies).
3. 1943-1955 Certificate of membership in the State Medical Association of Oklahoma (13 certificates).
4. 1931, 1933 Certificate of Golf Prowess for enrollment in Canada Dry's Hole-in-One Club (2 certificates).
5. 1950 Certification in the Basic Sciences by the Oklahoma State Board of Examiners in the Basic Sciences.
6. 1950
Certificate of membership in the American Medical Association.
7. 1949
Certificate of membership in the American Association of Railway Surgeons.
8. 1947 Certificate of appreciation of service rendered as President of the Oklahoma State Medical Association.
9. 1942
Certificate of attendance in a course in post-graduate medical study.
10. Certificate
of election as a Fellow of the Academy-International of Medicine (n.d.).
11. 1919
Certificate of election as a member of the National Geographic Society.
12. 1927
Certificate of honor as a past President of the Lions Club of McAlester.
13. 1931
Certificate of membership in Country Club Magazine's International Hole-in-one
Club.
14. 1935
Certificate of honor as a past District Governor of the Lions Club.
15. 1940
Award as International Counselor of the Lions Club.
16. 1935 Appointment as Aviation Safety Representative and Medical Examiner for the Department of Commerce, Civil Aeronautics Administration.
17. 1911 Appointment as resident physician and surgeon of the Alexian Brothers Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri.
18. 1911 Authorization from the State Board of Medical Examiners to practice medicine in the State of Oklahoma.
19. 1910 Certificate from the State Board of Health of the State of Missouri to practice medicine and surgery.
20. 1911
Certificate for Kuyrkendall’s service as Resident Intern in Alexian Brothers
Hospital.
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