John A. Crabb correspondence and articles

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Biographical sketch: Family physician; of Topeka, Kan.

Abstract: Included in this collection are research, correspondence, case histories, signatures and autographs, articles, some of his published articles, and drafts of articles regarding various medical conditions and their possible causes and cures. The medical conditions addressed are arthritis, hormones, duodenal ulcer, peptic ulcers, malignancy, muscular dystrophy, rheumatoid arthritis, and sepsis. The correspondence spans from 1919 to 1955 and is mainly between Dr. John A. Crabb and other doctors, laboratories, and publishing companies.

Summary:

Container List

Box /Folder/ Contents

1 1 Lionel Barrymore
1 2 Emerson Brewer
1 3 Dr. William S. Collens and Dr. Norbert Fell
1 4 Dr. John H. Glynn
1 5 L.T. Hartcorn
1 6 Dr. E.H. Hashinger, Dr. Franklin Murphy
1 7 Ralph E. Jordan
1 8 Ernest F. Longaker
1 9 Dr. Ralph Major
1 10 Dr. J. Murray Scott
1 11 Senator O'Daniel
1 12 Dr. Robert Stewart
1 13 Dr. William K. Ward
1 14 Dr. Wenger
1 15 Armour Laboratories
2 1 Eli Lilly & Company
2 2 Mayo Clinic
2 3 Menninger Foundation
2 4 Squibb & Sons
2 5 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1941-1955
2 6 Articles: Malignancy
2 7 Article Reprint Pamphlets
2 8 Articles, Published
2 9 Duodenal Ulcer
2 10 Fractures in the Aged (3 Case Histories)
2 11 Hormones
3 1 Multiple Sclerosis Treatment by IV Histamine
3 2 Muscular Dystrophy/Cretinism
3 3 Cretinism Case History
3 4 Muscular Dystrophy
3 5 Peptic Ulcers, Arthritis Deformans
3 6 “Peptic Ulcer, an Endocrine Disease”
3 7 Peptic Ulcer, Correspondence
4 1 Sepsis Cases – Manuscript
4 2 Rheumatoid Arthritis Endocrine Origin, Statements
4 3 Bile/Rheumatoid Arthritis
4 4 Rheumatoid Arthritis, Articles 1945-1951
4 5 Rheumatoid Arthritis, Correspondence
4 6 Rheumatoid Arthritis (notebook)
4 7 Tularemia Bismuth
4 8 A Case of Dr. Crabb's (Photographs)
4 9 Case Histories
4 10 Eva Myers Case History
4 11 Eugenics/ Heredity, & Relationship to Crime by Joseph C. Shaw
4 12 Government Policies – Articles
4 13 Signatures and Autographs

Oversize Notes

Language note: English.

Biog. Sketch (Full): John A. Crabb was born 4 June 1869, the son of Thomas and Wealth Ann Shafer Crabb, in Brown County, Illinois. His family came to Kansas when he was thirteen years old, and they settled in Smith County. In 1889 Crabb married Cora Jane Brown. For a few years he taught at country schools and farmed, attending the Teachers' Institute each summer. He also served as county clerk for Smith County for two terms.

Crabb formed an interest in the medical profession because of western Kansas Doctors John and Henry Dykes. He moved his wife and three children Ray, Herbert, and Emma to Topeka, Kansas, in order to attend the Kansas Medical College there, spending his last year of medical school at the University of Kansas in Rosedale, now part of Kansas City, and graduating in 1906. Thereafter he taught anatomy classes at the Kansas Medical College until it merged with the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1913.

During World War I, Crabb served with the Washburn Ambulance Company and in first aid stations on European battlegrounds; by the end of the war he reached the rank of major. Afterward, Crabb practiced family medicine in Topeka until his retirement in 1954 on his eighty-fifth birthday. He also served as a trustee of the Central Congregational Church and of Washburn College, now University, in Topeka and was on the first board of directors for the earliest Menninger Sanitarium.

John Crabb died 17 March 1961.

Scope and content:

This collection documents some of the professional writings and correspondence of John Crabb. Consists of some incoming and copies of Crabb's outgoing correspondence (typed and handwritten), newspaper clippings, handwritten and typed drafts and versions of articles written by Crabb as well as published versions, article reprints by others, case histories, photographs and X-rays, and other related materials. Topics largely consist of Crabb's interest in diseases of the endocrine system, including peptic ulcers and cretinism (hypothyroidism); hormone therapy treatments for various diseases, particularly thyroid and arthritis problems, and his attempts to persuade pharmaceutical companies to produce such treatments; publishing his findings, including in The Medical World; and Crabb's political interests as a small-government Republican. There is very little correspondence with Menninger family members, including regarding his role as board member of the first Menninger Sanitarium corporation. Published articles by Dr. Crabb included in the collection are Peptic Ulcers, an Endocrine Disease, and Rheumatoid Arthritis, an Endocrine Disease.

The first series consists of Dr. Crabb's correspondence and will start with correspondence grouped by individuals and then by corporate name, followed by miscellaneous correspondence. Correspondence inside each folder is arranged chronologically.

The second series addresses medical conditions that were researched by Dr. Crabb and the folders are arranged alphabetically.

The third series are the miscellaneous folders and are arranged alphabetically.

Contents: Individuals (box 1, folders 1-14) -- organizations (box 1, folder 15-box 2, folder 4) -- misc. correspondence, 1941-1955 (box 2, folder 5) -- articles (box 2, folders 6-8) -- conditions (box 2, folder 9-box 4, folder 7) -- case histories (box 4, folders 8-10) -- medicine and government (box 4, folders 11-12) -- signatures and autographs (box 4, folder 13).

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Use and reproduction: There are no restrictions on use.