Louis C. Lasagna papers

Creator: Lasagna, Louis, 1923-2003

Call Number: D.302

Dates: 1947-2001

Physical Description: 62 boxes

Language(s): Materials are in English

Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester





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Title: Louis C. Lasagna papers

Creator: Lasagna, Louis, 1923-2003

Call Number: D.302

Dates: 1947-2001

Physical Description: 62 boxes

Language(s): Materials are in English

Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester



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Box 1: 1947 – 1959

Folder 1. 1947-1949 Letters to and from Louis Lasagna; articles and manuscripts written by Lasagna; and a cast list and partial script for A Chief Complaint, a musical comedy in which Louis Lasagna appeared.





Cast list for "Chief Complaint", May 23, 1947

Partial script for "Chief Complaint", May 1947

David Seegal letter to Louis Lasagna, October 29, 1948

David Seegal letter to Gordon Zubrod, September 13, 1949

Louis Lasagna letter to E.K. Marshall, September 29, 1949

E. K. Marshall, Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, October 7, 1949

Robert F. Loeb letter to Louis Lasagna, October 12, 1949

E.K. Marshall, Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, October 25, 1949

E.K. Marshall, Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, October 29, 1949

"Occlusion of the Anterior Spinal Artery," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital, July - August, 1949.

"The Occurrence of Pnemoperitoneum and Diffuse Emphysema Following Gastroscopy With No Evident Perforation," [co-authored], TS with MS editing, n.d."

Folder 2. 1950s Reprints of articles about clinical trials and drug studies originally published in the 1950s (by other authors) and a memorandum to Solid Tumor Group containing statistics on a 1957 study; arranged chronologically.





Folder 3. 1950-1953 Letters to Lasagna; schedules for lectures given by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna. Topics include: antidiuretic action and effects; barbiturates; Norpinehrine in Parotid gland secretion; oral analgesics; placebo effect; and Terramycin.





Detlev W. Bronk letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1950

Alphonse Chapanis letter to Louis Lasagna, April 11, 1951

Detlev W. Bronk letter to Louis Lasagna, June 20, 1951

"Detection of Norepinephrine in the Parotid Gland Secretion of Bufo Agua," reprinted from Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1951.

David Seegal letter to Louis Lasagna, July 13, 1951

David Seegal letter to Louis Lasagna, July 17, 1951

Excerta Medica letter to Louis Lasagna, January 15, 1952

Review of Penicillin Decade, 1941 - 1951, Sensitizations and Toxicities (Lawrence Weld Smith and Ann Dolan Walker), Bulletin of the John Hopkins Society, April 1952.

Detlev W. Bronk letter to Louis Lasagna, May 7, 1952

"The Relation of Dosage Schedule To The Therapeutic Efficacy Of Terramycin," [co-authored], reprinted from Bulletin of the John Hopkins Hospital, May 1952.

Review of Man on His Nature, 2nd Edition (Sir Charles Sherrington), Bulletin of the John Hopkins Society, May 1952.

Dean A. Clark letter to Louis Lasagna, May 7, 1952

"Antidiuretic Effects of Physostigmine and Atropine in the Dog," [co-authored], reprinted from Proceedings of The Society For Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1952.

Review of A Textbook of Pharmacology, Principles and Application of Pharmacology to the Practice (William T. Salter), [source unknown], n.d.

"Effects of Potassium in the Guinea Pig after Barbiturate Administration," reprinted from Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1952.

"On The Mechanism of The AntiDiuretic Action of Cinchronic Avid Derivatives," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, September 1952.

"The Antidiuretic Action of Epinephrine and Norepinephrine," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, September 1952.

"The Antidiuretic Activity of Some Organic Acids," [co-authored], reprinted from the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, November 1952.

E.K. Marshall Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, December 12, 1952

Helen Sherwin letter to Louis Lasagna, December 13, 1952

Louis Lasagna letter to Rutgers Alumni Monthly, No Date (1953?)

Carl C. Pfeiffer letter to Louis Lasagna, April 20, 1953

Walter Bauer letter to Louis Lasagna, April 22, 1953

Ilona Karmel letter to Louis Lasagna, No Date (April 30, 1953?)

A. McGehee Harvey letter to Louis Lasagna, May 14, 1953

President and Fellows of Harvard College letter to Louis Lasagna, May 18, 1953

A. McGehee Harvey letter to Louis Lasagna, May 27, 1953

Dean A. Clark letter to Louis Lasagna, July 24, 1953

Thomas C. Butler letter to Louis Lasagna, July 24, 1953

Dave and Beatrice [?] letter to Louis and Helen Lasagna, August 14 [1953 ?]

Robert F. Loeb letter to Louis Lasagna, September 11, 1953

Earl H. Dearborn letter to Louis Lasagna, October 21, 1953

"The Persistence of Mental Impairment Following A Hypnotic Dose of A Barbiturate," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, November 1953.

"The Effectiveness of Oral Analgesics (Morphine, Codeine, Acetylsalicylic Acid) and the Problem of Placebo "Reactors" and "NonReactors," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, December 1953.

Folder 4. January - September 1954 Letters to Lasagna; schedules and announcements for speaking engagements given and attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna. Topics include: dead germs; and placebo.





Margae T. Corwin [?] letter to Louis Lasagna, February 20, 1954

Nathan B. Eddy letter to Louis Lasagna, April 16, 1954

"A Comparison of Hypnotic Agents," reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, May 1954.

Russell A. Nelson letter to Louis Lasagna, June 8, 1954

Lowell J. Reed letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1954

Lowell J. Reed letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1954

"A Study of the Placebo Response," [co-authored], reprinted from The American Journal of Medicine, June 1954.

Jaques Cattell [American Men of Science, editor] letter to American Men of Science member, No Date

[untitled quote], New Brunswick Public School, Annual School Report cover, 1954.

Henry K. Beecher letter to Louis Lasagna, August 2, 1954

J.T. Litchfield letter to Louis Lasagna, August 9, 1954

"The Humble Humbug," The Lancet, August 14, 1945.

David Seegal letter to Louis Lasagna, August 18, 1954

Dennis Flanagan, [Scientific American] letter to Louis Lasagna, August 23, 1954

"The Volunteer Subject in Research," [co-authored], reprinted from Science, September 3, 1954.

"The Optimal Dose of Morphine," [co-authored], reprinted, with additions, from The Journal of the American Medical Association, September 18, 1954.

Medical Advisory Board letter to Louis Lasanga, September 27, 1954 acceptance of appointment to Baltimore City Hospital





Folder 5. October - December 1954 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna. Topics include: analgesic effectiveness; and Nalorphine.





Carl C. Pfeiffier letter to Louis Lasagna, November 9, 1954

Lowell J. Reed letter to Louis Lasagna, November 22, 1954

"Nalorphine (N-Allynormorphine), Practical and Theoretical Considerations," reprinted from A.M.A. Archives of Internal Medicine, October 1954.

"The Analgesic Effectiveness of Codeine and Meperdine (Demerol)," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, November 1954.

"The Analgesic Effectiveness of Nalorphine and Nalorphine Morphine Combinations In Man," [co-authored], [source unknown], November 1954.

Ethan Allan Brown letter to Louis Lasagna, December 15, 1954

Folder 6. January - June 1955 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; reviews of Lasagna's published writing; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: controlled clinical trial; drug-induced mood changes; and hypnotic potency.





Walter Maddock letter to Louis Lasagna, January 13, 1955

Carl C. Pfeiffer letter to Louis Lasagna, January 27, 1955

"A Comparative Evaluation of the Hypnotic Potency of Chloral Hydrate And Trichloroethanol," [co-authored], reprinted from Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, February 1955.

A. Mcgehee Harvey letter to Louis Lasagna, March 2, 1955

"Drug-Induced Mood Changes in Man, 1," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association, March 19, 1955.

"Drug-Induced Mood Changes in Man, 2," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association, March 26, 1955.

J.M. Hanuan letter to Louis Lasagna, March 18, 1955

"The Controlled Clinical Trial: Theory and Practice," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, April 1955.

Medical Advisory Board letter to Louis Lasagna, May 5, 1955 acceptance of appointment





Review of Pharmacology In Medicine, (ed. Victor Drill), for Journal of Chronic Diseases, TS with MS editing, 2 pgs. n.d.

Lowell J. Reed letter to Louis Lasagna, June 1, 1955

Lowell J. Reed letter to Louis Lasagna, June 1, 1955

J.M. Hanan letter to Louis Lasagna, June 8, 1955 Form attached to this letter: "Notification of Personnel Action."





Russell A. Nelson letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1955

Thomas Butler letter to Louis Lasagna, June 20, 1955

Max Halhuber letter to Louis Lasagna, June 24, 1955 Letter is in German with English translation





Folder 7. July - December 1955 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: drug-induced mood changes; placebo.





"Placebos," Menninger School of Psychiatry, August 1955.

William Stead letter to Louis Lasagna, August 15, 1955

Review of The Pharmacology Basis of Therapeutics, 2nd Ed. (Louis Goodman and Alfred Gilman), for Journal of Chronic Diseases, TS with MS editing, 2 pgs., n.d.

Abraham Wikler letter to Louis Lasagna, September 16, 1955

R.W. Gerard letter to Louis Lasagna, November 7, 1955

Gerard Piel (Scientific American) letter to Louis Lasagna, November 7, 1955

H.D. Kautz letter to Louis Lasagna, November 8, 1955

Frances Porcher letter to Louis Lasagna, November 16, 1955

Hugo Muench letter to Louis Lasagna, November 17, 1955

R. Lynes letter to Louis Lasagna, November 21, 1955

Claron Oakley (Audio Digest Foundation) letter to Louis Lasagna, November, 1955

Eunice Thomas Miner (New York Academy of Sciences) letter to Louis Lasagna, December 2, 1955

Editorial, Journal Of The Medical Association of Georgia, December 1955.

Folder 8. January - June 1956 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: hypnotic drugs; placebo, psychology and drugs





Boland Hughes letter to Louis Lasagna, January 18, 1956

"A Study of Hypnotic Drugs In Patients With Chronic Diseases," reprinted from the Journal of Chronic Diseases, February 1956.

Mary I. Bunting letter to Louis Lasagna, March 22, 1956

Louis Goodman letter to Louis Lasagna, March 27, 1956

"The Effect of Hydrocortisone Upon The Course of Pneumococcal Pneumonia Treated With Penicillin," [co-authored], reprinted from Bulletin of the John Hopkins Hospital, March 1956.

K.K. Chen letter to Louis Lasagna, May 4, 1956

Jack D. Myers letter to Louis Lasagna, May 5, 1956

Medical Advisory Board letter to Louis Lasagna, May 15, 1956

"Drug Effects As Modified By Aging," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, June 1956.

Lowell J. Reed letter to Louis Lasagna, June 11, 1956

Lowell J. Reed letter to Louis Lasagna, June 11, 1956

Folder 9. July - December 1956 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: Baltimore Museum of Art rental gallery; hypnotics; Joseph Lasagna [father]; and pain relief.





"Symposium: Pain and Its Relief," Journal of Chronic Diseases, July 1956.

Review of Current Therapy 1956 (ed. Howard F. Conn), Bulletin of John Hopkins Hospital, July 1956.

"An Evaluation of Hypnotic Drugs In Psychiatric Patients," [co-authored], reprinted from Bulletin of the John Hopkins Hospital, August 1956.

Kenneth Hamlin letter to Louis Lasagna, September 5, 1956

Leon Eisenberg letter to Louis Lasanga, September 6, 1956

Bernard B. Brodie letter to Louis Lasagna, September 6, 1956

Harry [Harold?] Beecher lette to Louis Lasagna, September 10, 1956

"Problems Involved In The Study of Drug-Modified Behavior In Normal Humans," [co-authored], Working Paper for Conference on the Evaluation of Pharmacotherapy in Mental Illness, September 1956, TS, 10 pgs (front and verso).

Review of The History of the Therapy of Tuberculosis and The Case of Frederick Chopin (Edmund R. Long), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Annual Review of Medicine, Vol 7, (ed. David A. Rytand), Annual Reviews Inc., Stanford, California, 1957.

Charles D. Hilles. Jr. (American Cancer Society) letter to Louis Lasagna, October 11, 1956

A. Dale Console letter to Louis Lasagna, October 31, 1956 Re: offer of medical directorship





Charles L. Brown letter to Louis Lasagna, November 2, 1956

Seymor S. Kety letter to Louis Lasagna, October 23, 1956

R.w. Gerard letter to Louis Lasagna, October 11, 1956

Review of Observations On Krebiozen In The Management Of Cancer (A.C. Ivy, John F. Pick, and W.F. Phillips), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of KLINIK UND THERAPIE DER VERGIFTUNGEN (Sven Moeschlin), for Journal of Chronic Diseases, TS with MS editing, 1 pg, n.d.

"Across-The-Counter Hypnotics: Book Hazard, or Fraud?" reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, November 1956.

William S. Spector letter to Louis Lasagna, December 12, 1956

"The Response of Normal Men to Lysergic Acid Derivatives (Di-And Mono-Ethyl Amides), Correlation of Personality and Drug Responses," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of Clinical and Experimental Psychopathology, December 1956.

"Drug Effects As Modified By Aging," reprinted from Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, n.d.

Folder 10. 1957 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: Dr. John Jacob Abel Centenary; hypnotics; and tranquilizers.





"The Newer Hypnotic," reprinted from The Medical Clinics of North America, March 1957.

Amy Winslow (Enoch Pratt Free Library) letter to Louis Lasagna, April 4, 1957

Perry F. Prather letter to Louis Lasagna, April 10, 1957

Ed Dawes letter to Louis Lasagna, April 10, 1957 This letter is written at the bottom of Perry F. Prather's letter from April 10, 1957.





Perry F. Prather letter to Louis Lasagna, May 20, 1957

Medical Advisory Board letter to Louis Lasagna, May 27, 1957

Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine letter to Louis Lasagna, May 28, 1957

Frederick P. Ferguson letter to Louis Lasagna, June 3, 1957

W. Barry Wood Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, June 4, 1957 letter of promotion to Associate Professor





Review of Whitla's Dictionary of Medical Treatment (R.S. Allison and T.H. Crozier), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

J.R. Heller letter to Louis Lasagna, June 5, 1957

Kenneth M. Endicott letter to Louis Lasagna, June 11, 1957

Russell A. Nelson letter to Louis Lasagna, June 20, 1957

"Effect of 'Tranquilizing' Drugs on Amphetamine Toxicity in Aggregated Mice," [co-authored], reprinted from Science, June 21, 1957.

John C. Whitehorn letter to Louis Lasagna, June 26, 1957

Milton S. Eisenhower letter to Louis Lasagna, July 1, 1957

Milton S. Eisenhower letter to Louis Lasagna, July 1, 1957

Surgeon General letter to Louis Lasagna, August 9, 1957

Review of Annual Review of Medicine, Vol 8, (ed. David A. Rytand), Bulletin of The John Hopkins Hospital, September 1957.

Review of A Manual of Pharmacology and its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology, 8th ed. (Torland Sollman), Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, October 1957.

"Cricket, Critics, Conformity, and Curmudgeonship," Clinical Research Proceedings, November 1957.

Percival Bailey letter to Louis Lasagna, November 12, 1957

Review of William Harvey, His Life and Times: His Discoveries: His Methods (Louis Chauvois), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Maria E. Steller letter to Louis Lasagna, December 20, 1957

Review of Morphine and Allied Drugs (A.K. Reynolds and L.O. Randall), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Drugs And The Mind (Robert S. de Ropp), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of The Relation Of Psychiatry To Pharmacology (Abraham Wikler), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Hormones in the Blood, (ed. G.E. Wolstenholme and E.C.P. Millar), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of The Physician-Writer Book. Tricks of the Trade of Medical Writ (Richard M. Hewitt), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Scientific Writing (Meta Riley Emberger), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Folder 11. January - June 1958 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; and photographs. Topics include: chemotherapy; Kefauver hearings; and pharmaceutical advertising.





Louis Lasagna Curriculum Vitae n.d. [1958?]

Alexander Simon letter to Louis Lasagna, February 25, 1958

"Narcotic Potency And Side Effects Of Anilerisine And Meperidine In Man," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, March 3, 1958.

Review of An Introduction To The Study of Experimental Medicine (Claude Bernard; translated by Henry Copley Green and with introduction by Lawrence J. Henderson), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of A History Of Medicine, Vol. 2, Early Greek, Hindu, and Persian Medicine (Henry E. Sigerist), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Molecules and Mental Health, (ed. F.A. Gibbs), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Donald Mainland letter to Louis Lasagna, April 3, 1958

"Further Studies On The 'Pharmacology' of Placebo Administration," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of Clinical Investigation, April 1958.

Review of Clinical Toxicology: The Clinical Diagnosis and Treatment of Poisoning (Marhuerite S. Locket), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Psychotropic Drugs, (ed. S. Garattini and Z. Ghetti), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

H.P. [Houston Peterson?] letter to Louis Lasagna, June 4, 1958 notes in pencil on reverse side of letter





Review of The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria (J.J. Eysenck), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

"Clinical Evaluation of Drugs," [co-authored], reprinted from Annual Review of Medicine, 1958.

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1958

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1958

Review of The Relation of Psychiatry to Pharmacology (Abraham Winkler), Bulletin of the John Hopkins Hospital, June 1958.

"A Controlled Trial Of Chlorpromazine and Promazine in the Management of Delirium Tremens," [co-authored], reprinted from Quarterly Journal of Studies On Alcohol, June 1958.

Review of The Preservation of Youth. Essays on Health (Moses Ben Maimon; translated by Fi Tadbir as-Sihha and with an introduction by Hirsch L. Gordon), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of A History of Public Health (George Rosen), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Pharmacology in Medicine. A Collaborative Text Book, (ed. Victor Drill), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Folder 12. July - December 1958 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: Baltimore Museum of Art, Sales and Rental Gallery; Dextromoramide; and urinary tract infection.





James A. Shannon letter to Louis Lasagna, July 10, 1958

Evan Thomas letter to Oliver G. Swan Harper Brothers; Lasagna manuscript





"Appraising Tobacco Report, Evidence of Relationship Between Smoking and Disease Noted," The New York Times, July 13, 1958.

Donald Johnson letter to Louis Lasagna, September 1, 1958

Review of CIBA Foundation Symposium of the Cerebrospinal Fluid, Production, Circulation and Absorption, (Ed. G.E. W. Wolstenholme and Cecelia M. O'Conner), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

"The Relative Importance of Blood and Urinary Concentrations of Sulfonamide in the Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections," [co-authored], reprinted from Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, September 1958.

Review of Physical Diagnosis (F. Denette Adams), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Principles of Internal Medicine (T.R. Harrison, et. al.) Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Roots of Scientific Thought, (ed. Philip P. Woener and Aaron Noland), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Principles of Research in Biology and Medicine (Dwight J. Ingle), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Experimental Pharmacodynamics (T. Koppanyi and A.G. Karczamer), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Negroes And Medicine (Dietrich C. Reitzers), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Chemotherapy and the Central Nervous System (Henry McIlwain), [source unknown], n.d.

F.J.L. Blasingame letter to Louis Lasagna, October 30, 1958

"A Clinical Trial of Dextromoramide," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, December 1958.

James A. Shannon letter to Louis Lasagna, December 18, 1958

Heinz Gotze letter to Louis Lasagna, December 19, 1958

Folder 13. 1959 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: Kefauver hearings (including images); and pharmaceutical advertising.









Evan Calkins letter to Louis Lasagna, January 27, 1959

Lawrence A. Kimpton letter to Louis Lasagna, January 30, 1959

Louis Goodman letter to Lister Hill, February 2, 1959 Louis Lasanga's curriculum vitae is attached.





"Experimental Design and Statistical Problems [Chapter 4 of Principles of Drug Evaluation]", [co-authored], n.d.

"Sedatives and Hypnotics," reprinted from The Effect of Pharmacologic Agents on the Nervous System, 1959.

Review of The Amphetamines. Their Actions and Uses (Chauncey D. Leake), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Aphrodisiacs: From Legend To Prescription (Alan Hull Walton), [source unknown], n.d

Review of A History of Nutrition (Elmer Verner McCollum), [source unknown], n.d. Review is on the same sheet as review of "Aphrodesiacs"





Review of Centaur. Essays on the History of Medical Ideas (Felix Marti-Ibanez), [source unknown], n.d.

"Extrapolation To Studies In Man," Annals New York Academy of Sciences, n.d.

Louis Goodman letter to Louis Lasagna, May 6, 1959

Alfred Gilman letter to Louis Lasagna, May 11, 1959

Review of The Yearbook of Medicine, (ed. Harry Beckman) The Yearbbok of Drug Therapy (ed. Paul B. Beeson, et al), (Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.)

Review of VA Prospectus: Research in Aging (Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.) This review is on the same sheet as the review of the Year Book titles





Thomas Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1959

Thomas Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1959

Review of History of American Medicine, (ed. Felix Marti-Ibanez), [source unknown], n.d.

"A Controlled Study of Chlorothiazide as a Diuretic Agent," [co-authored] reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, July 1959

"Problems Involved In The Study Of Drug-Modified Behavior In Normal Humans," [co-authored], reprinted from Psychopharmacology: Problems in Evaluation, n.d.

Review of Neuropharmacology (Transactions of the Fourth Conference), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Mirage of Health (Rene Dubos), [source unknown], n.d.

Arthur Kallet letter to Louis Lasagna, September 28, 1959

Review of A History of Ophthalmology (George E. Arrington), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Research On Novocain Therapy In Old Age (Ann Aslan et al), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of A History of Neurology (Wakther Riese), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Experiment Perilous. Physicians and Patients Facing the Unknown (Renee C. Fox), Journal of Chronic Diseases [?], n.d.

"A Training Program in Clinical Pharmacology" Reprinted from Postgraduate Medicine, October 1959.

"Gripesmanship: A Positive Approach," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, December 1959.

Art Console telegram to Louis Lasagna, December 12, 1959

Robert L. Levy letter to Louis Lasagna, December 11, 1959

Box 2: 1960-1963

Folder 1. January - April 1960 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna. Topics include: analgesics; arms control; pharmaceutical advertising; nuclear testing; and wonder drugs.





Review of The Story of Dissection (Jack Kevorkian), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

"Relation of Thyroid Function To Acute And Chronic Effects of Amphetamine In The Rat," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal Of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, February 1960.

"Appraisal Of Methods For The Study Of Chemotherapy Of Cancer In Man: Comparative Therapeutic Trial Of Nitrogen Mustard And Triethylene Thiophosphoramide," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, January 1960.

I.S.Ravdin letter to Louis Lasagna, February 11, 1960

Stuart Sessoms letter to Louis Lasagna, February 19, 1960

"Effects of Aggravation and Temperature on Amphetamine Toxicity in Mice," [co-authored], Psychopharmacologia, n.d.

Review of Antibiotics in Medicine, (ed. Lawrence P. Garrod), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of The Year Book of Medicine. 1959-1960, (ed. P.B. Beeson et al), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Year Book of Drug Therapy, (ed. Harry Beckman), [source unknown], n.d.

Christian Herter letter to multiple persons including Louis Lasagna, March 12, 1960 copy of telegram about arms control





J.R. Heller letter to Louis Lasagna, April 21, 1960

Folder 2. May - December 1960 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: drug testing; and Lucille de Mandel Witt.





"The Analgesic Potency of Piminodine (Alvodine)," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, August 1960.

Review of A Bibliography of Internal Medicine. Selected Diseases (Arthur L. Bloomfield), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Henry E. Sigerist On The Sociology of Medicine, (ed, Milton I. Roemer), [source unknown], n.d

Review of Medieval And Renaissance Medicine (Benjamin Lee Gordon), [source unknown], n.d.

"Thalidome - A New Nonbarbiturate Sleep Inducing Drug," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1960

Review of Psychopharmacology Frontiers, (ed. Nathan S. Kline), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

James A. Shannon letter to Louis Lasagna, October 5, 1960

Review of Henry E. Sigergist On The History of Medicine, (ed. Felix Marti-Ibanez), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

"Planning Clinical Chemotherapy Studies," National Cancer Institute Monograph No. 3, n.d.

"Note to the Paper 'The Influence of Side-Effects On the Reporting of Symptoms' by F.J.J.J. Letemendia and A.D. Harris," Psychopharmacologia, 1960.

"Newer Techniques and Some Problems in Cooperative Group Studies," [panel member, Conference on Experimental Cancer Chemotherapy], n.d.

Review of Detoxication Mechanisms. The Metabolism And Detoxication of Drugs, Toxic Substances And Other Organic Compounds, [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Neuropharmacology. Transactions of the Fifth Conference, Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

"Preliminary Studies with Cyclophoshamide," [group member], reprinted from Cancer Chemotherapy Reports No. 8, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Publics Health Service, n.d.

Review of The Year Book of Medicine, 1960-1961, (ed. P.B. Beeson et al), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Disease and Advancement of Basic Science (ed. Henry K. Beecher), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of "Insulin" (British Medical Bulletin, Vol 16, No. 3, September 1960), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of The Misrepresentation of Arthritis Drugs and Devices in the United States (Ruth Walrad), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of The Liver And Cancer: A New Cancer Theory (Kasper Blond), [source unknown], n.d.

Folder 3. January - July 1961 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; book reviews by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; articles by other authors; and a radio news release [discussing global political tensions] Topics include: analgesics; arthritis; sleep aids; cyproheptadine; and placebo.





Review of Drugs and Behavior, (ed. Leonard Uhr and James Miller), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of The Torch (Wilder Penfield), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Biology of Pyelonephritis, (ed. edwaed L. Quinn and Edward H. Kass), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of The New Year Book of Drug Therapy, (ed. Harry Beckman), [source unknown], n.d.

Irving Ladimer letter to Louis Lasagna, April 25, 1961

Harry K. Beecher letter to Louis Lasagna, May 15, 1961

Review of Evaluation Of Drug Therapy, (ed. Francis Forster), [source unknown] n.d.

Review of Laennec: His Life And Times, (Roger Kervan; translated by D.C. Abrahams-Curiel), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Concepts of Medicine (ed. Brandon Lush), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d

Review of Graduated Reciprocation In Tension-Reduction. A Key To Initiative In Foreign Policy (Charles E. Osgood), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Science and Human Values (J. Brinowski), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Statistics. A New Approach (W. Allen Wallis and Harry V. Roberts), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Chemobiodynamics And Drug Design (F.W. Schueler), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Toxicology: Mechanisms And Analytical Methods, Vol 1 and 2, (ed. C.P. Stewart and A. Stolman), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Cardiovascular Abstracts, (ed. Stanford Wessler), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Bedside Medicine (I. Snapper), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Symposium on Coronary Heart Disease, (ed. Herrman L. Blumgart), [source unknown], n.d.

Folder 4. August - December 1961 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; advertisements for and reviews of Doctors' Dilemma; and an advertisement for Biopharmaceutics [a film report featuring Lasagna]. Topics include: analgesics; drug experimentation on prison inmates; Kefauver hearings; Methotrimeprazine [morphine substitute]; prescription drug prices; and prescription drug research.





R.H. Felix letter to Louis Lasagna, October 6, 1961

"Analgesic Drugs," reprinted from American Journal of the Medical Sciences, November 1961.

"Methotrimeprazine. A New Phenthiazine Derivative with Analgesic Properties," reprinted from Journal of the American Medical Association, December 2, 1961.

"A Double-Blind Comparison of Placebo and Imipramine in the Treatment of Depressed Patients in a State Hospital," [co-authored], Journal of Psychiatric Res[?], n.d.

"Toxicity After Large Doses of Noscapine," [co-authored], Cancer Chemotherapy Reports, December 1961.

"The Effect of Dosage Regimen On The Diuretic Efficacy Of Chlorothiazide In Human Subjects," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, December 1961.

Folder 5. January - February 1962 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna, including reviews of Doctors' Dilemmas. Topics include: American Medical Association; 'drug age' problem; improving the human body; Kefauver hearings; methtrimeprazine [morphine substitute]; and nuclear testing.





"'Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. So man is described in the Bible. But the suggestion that the heart might be replaced by machinery raises the question: Can the human body be improved?'" The New York Times Magazine, January 21, 1962.

Betty Putney (Harper Brothers) letter to Louis Lasagna, February 15, 1962

David Ambutter letter to Louis Lasagna, February 18, 1962

Review of The Press (A.J. Liebling), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Human Genetics, (ed. A.C. Stevenson), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Medicine As An Art And A Science (A.E. Clark-Kennedy and C.W. Bartley), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of The Year Book of Medicine, (ed. P.B. Beeson et al), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Quantitative Methods In Pharmacology (ed. H. De Jonge), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Dreams Of Reason. Science and Utopias (Rene Dubos), [source unknown], n.d.

David and Beatrice telegram to Louis Lasanga, Febryary 27, 1962

Folder 6. March 1962 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna, including reviews of his book, The Doctors' Dilemmas. Topics include: arteriosclerosis and fats; and Kefauver hearings.





Marian Young Taylor letter to Louis Lasagna [n.d.]

"Quackery," The John Hopkins Magazine, March 1962.

"New Vista For The Journal Of Chronic Diseases," Journal Of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

"A Matter Of Perspective," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1962.

James E. Perkins letter to Louis Lasagna, March 14, 1962 This note is addressed to Raymond G. Harwood, President of Harper Bros. publishers and CC'd to Louis Lasagna. Letter lodges a complaint against Lasagna's treatment of the National Tuberculosis Association in the book, Doctors' Dilemas.





Mike Gorman letter to Louis Lasagna [n.d.], March 15, 1962 Attached is a copy of the letter Mike Gorman wrote to President John F. Kennedy Re: Lasagna's book.





Mike Gorman letter to John F. Kennedy, March 15, 1962

Robert G. Petersdorf letter to Louis Lasagna, March 20, 1962

Louis Lasagna letter to Milton S. Eisenhower, March 21, 1962

Beulah Hagen [assistant to Cass Canfield at Harper Bros.] letter to Louis Lasagna, March 23, 1962

Arnold Seligman letter to Louis Lasagna, March 23, 1962

Henry N. Wagner, Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, March 26, 1962

Dave [?] telegram to Louis Lasagna, March 26, 1962

Walter C. Alvarez letter to Louis Lasagna, March 27, 1962

Folder 7. April - June 1962 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna, including advertisements for and reviews of The Doctors' Dilemmas; and medical articles by other authors. Topics include: Kefauver hearings.





Milton S. Eisenhower letter to Louis Lasagna, May 7, 1962

Louis Lasagna letter to Milton S. Eisenhower, May 15, 1962 attached to May 7, 1962 Eisenhower letter





"Effect of Cyproheptadine on Asthmatic Children," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of the American Medical Association, June 16, 1962.

"Problems In Clinical Evaluation Of Drug Therapy," reprinted from Perspectives In Biology And Medicine, Spring 1962.

Review of Medical Genetics, 1958 - 1960 (Victor A. McKusick and Contributors), Bulletin Of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, April 1962.

Louis Lasagna letter to Beulah Hagen, April 3, 1962

Alvan R. Feinstein letter to Perrin H. Long, April 6, 1962

John M. Russell letter to Louis Lasagna, April 12, 1962

James E. Perkins letter to Raymond G. Harwood, April 13, 1962

Hilary Rubinstein letter to Louis Lasagna, April 18, 1962

Louis Lasagna letter to Thomas B. Turner, April 27, 1962

Review of The Historical Development of British Psychiatry, Vol I: 18th and 19th Century (Denis Leigh), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of The Year Book Of Drug Therapy (1961-1962), (ed. Harry Beckman). [source unknown], n.d.

Louis Lasagna letter to James E. Perkins, May 2, 1962

Louis Lasagna letter to Milton S. Eisenhower, May 3, 1962

Seymour S. Kety letter to Louis Lasagna, May 19, 1962

C.W. Kammeier letter to Raymond C. Harwood, June 1, 1962

George W. Northup letter to Louis Lasagna, June 4, 1962

Cass Canfield letter to C.W. Kammeier, June 12, 1962

James E. Perkins letter to Louis Lasagna, June 18, 1962

Robert Maxwell letter to Louis Lasagna, June 27, 1962

"Clinical Analysis Of Medical Fads," New York Times Magazine, June 24, 1962.

"Editorial: Introduction To 'Exploratory Trials With Anticancer Agents In Man'," [source unknown], n.d.

Folder 8. July - October 1962 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna, reviews of The Doctors' Dilemmas. Topics include: drug regulation; heredity control; human experimentation; Kefauver hearings; thalidomide; and the White House Conference on Narcotic and Drug Abuse.





"Controlled Trials: Nuisance or Necessity?" reprinted from Methods of Information in Medicine, July 1962.

Lester Markel letter to Louis Lasagna, July 23, 1962

"Heredity Controls: Dream or Nightmare?" The New York Times Magazine, August 5, 1962.

American Meat Institute letter to Louis Lasagna, July 12, 1962

"Some Explored and Unexplored Psychological Variable In Therapeutics," reprinted from Proceedings of the Society of Medicine, September 1962.

JS letter to Louis Lasagna, September 4, 1962

L.W. Frolich letter to Louis Lasagna, September 20, 1962

William M. Sweeney letter to Louis Lasagna, September 21, 1962

Review of The Toadstool Millionares, A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation, reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, September - October 1962.

"Gustatory Thresholds In Patients With Hypertension," [co-authored], reprinted from Nature, October 6, 1962.

"Why Not 'Astronauttes' Also?" The New York Times Magazine, October 21, 1962.

"The Psychophysics of Clinical Pain," [editorial], The Lancet, October 27, 1962.

Sedgwick Mead letter to Ferrin B. Long, October 17, 1962

"Drug Panic And Its Aftermath," Medical Tribune, August 27, 1962.

Louis Lasagna letter to Editor, The New York Times, September 2, 1962 article and second letter attached





Louis Lasagna letter to Editor, Medical Tribune, October 15, 1962

Folder 9. November - December 1962 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna, reviews of The Doctors' Dilemmas. Topics include: aspirin compounds; Cyanamid pain killers; drug addiction; and thalidomide.





"Human Guinea Pigs," [editorial] Science Review [?], November 3, 1962.

Review of Drugs, Medicines And Man (J. Harold Burn), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Illustrated Manual of Neurologic Diagnosis (R. Douglas Collins), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of An Introduction To The Study Of Disease (William Boyd), Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of A Select Bibliography Of Medical Biography (compiled by John L. Thornton et al), [source unknown]. n.d.

Review of Disease and Destiny. A Bibliography of Medical References to the Famous (Judson Bennett Gilbert), [source unknown], n.d.

R. Keith Cannan letter to Louis Lasagna, December 4, 1962

"The Doctors' Dilemmas: Epilogue," The Record, November-December 1962.

"A Comparative Study of Five Proprietary Analgesic Compounds," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association, December 29, 1962.

"I Am Fearfully Wonderfully Made," The Catholic Digest, December 1962.

Ed Harvey [WCAU Radio] letter to Louis Lasagna [n.d.]

Review of Drug Therapy (Frank C. Ferguson, Jr.), [source unknown], n.d.

Folder 10.January - June 1963 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna, reviews of The Doctors' Dilemmas. Topics include: aspirin compounds; Bayer aspirin ads; drug use in pregnancy; Federal Trade Commission (FTC); narcotic addiction; nuclear warfare and world disarmament; and thalidomide.





"The Effects of Aggregation, Electric Shock, And Adrenergic Blocking Drugs On Inhibitions Of The 'Writhing Syndrome'," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal Of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, January 1963.

"Why Not A Letters To The Editors Section," [editorial], reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1963.

"The Medical Center, The Patient And The Clinician," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1963.

"Are We Poisoning Our World?" The Catholic Digest, April 1963.

"Old Wives' Tales True or False?" The New York Times Magazine, May 5, 1963.

[?] Taylor[?] (Martha Deane Program) letter to Louis Lasagna [n.d.]

J.S. Hunter letter to Louis Lasagna, May 6, 1963

"'Micky Finn', [editorial]," [source unknown], May 11, 1963.

"The Investigator's Responsibility To The Patient," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1963.

Marjorie Nicholson letter to Louis Lasagna, June 3, 1963 Handwritten response from Lasagna on lower right corner





Louis Lasagna letter to Editor, The New Yorker magazine, June 11, 1963 draft of editorial attached





Frederic G. Hubbard letter to Louis Lasagna, June 11, 1963

The New Yorker letter to Louis Lasagna, June 13, 1963

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1963

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1963

"Now Dr. Robot Enters The Scene," The New York Times Magazine, June 16, 1963.

John [?] letter to Louis Lasagna, June 27, 1963

Review of Enzymes And Drug Action, (ed. J.L. Mongar and A.V.S. De Reuck), Journal Of Chronic Diseases, 1963.

Review of Pharmacogenetics. Heredity and the Response to Drugs (Werner Kalow), Journal Of Chronic Diseases, 1963.

Review of The Child With Mongolism (Clemens E. Benda), Journal Of Chronic Diseases, 1963.

Review of Advances In Pharmacology, (ed. Silvio Garttini and Parkhurst A. Shore), Journal Of Chronic Diseases, 1963.

"Thalidomide Aftermath," [editorial], The Sun [Baltimore], January 7, 1963.

M.L. Tainter letter to Louis Lasagna, January 23, 1963

Folder 11. July - December 1963 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna, advertisements for and reviews of The Doctors' Dilemmas; photographs; and "Recommendations On Procedures For The Employment of Investigational Drugs In The John Hopkins Hospital, Submitted By The Pharmacy And Therapeutics Committee," with blank "Consent To Use Investigational Drugs" forms. Topics include: clinical trials; drug labels, prices, and regulations; Kefauver hearings; "Lasagna Oath;" norethynodrel (Enovid); nuclear warfare and world disarmament; thalidomide; and toxic drugs.





Alfred Gellhorn letter to Louis Lasagna, December 10, 1963

"Actions of Barbiturate," [editorial], British Medical Journal, December 7, 1963.

Edmond Cahn letter to Louis Lasagna, December 23, 1963

Milton S. Eisenhower letter to Louis Lasagna, July 5, 1963

Paul Talalay letter to Louis Lasagna, July 5, 1963

"Effect of Potassium and Magnesium Aspirates on Athletic Performance," reprinted from The Journal of the American Medical Association, July 13, 1963.

Review of On Medicine in Britain and the National Health Service (R.K. Allday), Bulletin Of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, July 1963.

Which Old Wives' Tales Do You Believe? (condensed), The Reader's Digest, n.d.

Review of The Political Life Of the American Medical Association (Oliver Garceau), Bulletin Of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, August 1963.

Review of AMA Voice of American Medicine, Bulletin Of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, August 1963.

Review of Margin of Safety. The Story of Poliomyelitis Vaccine (John Rowan Wilson), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of On Medicine in Britain and the National Health Service (R.K. Allday), Bulletin Of The Johns Hopkins Hospital, July 1963.

"What the Doctor Ordered," [responding editorial], Baltimore Sun, October 17, 1963.

"Twentieth Century Therapeutics And Rip Van Winkle, "Proceedings of Rudolf Virchow Medical Society, 1963.

[?] [a pharmacist] letter to Louis Lasagna, November 22, 1963 article criticizing Lasagna is attached. Author of this memo, however, is a firm supporter of Lasagna





Harold Mankin letter to Louis Lasagna, December 4, 1963

Box 3: 1964-1967

Folder 1. January - March 1964 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, programs, etc., for lectures and speaking engagements given by Lasagna; script for "One Man's Opinion" WBAL-TV; reviews, articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; conference programs; notes; and patient studies. Topics include: drug trials; the Hippocratic oath; harms of smoking; need for perspective in medicine; and toxicological iceberg.





John Parks letter to Louis Lasagna, January 15, 1964

"Would Hippocrates Rewrite His Oath?" The New York Times Magazine, June 28, 1964.

H. George Mandel letter to Louis Lasagna, January 28, 1964

Review of Use and Abuse of Statistics (W.J. Reichmann), [source unknown], n.d.

James F. Crow letter to Louis Lasagna, February 13, 1964

"Methotrimeprazine in the Treatment of Labor Pain,"[co-authored], reprinted from the New England Journal of Medicine, February 20, 1964.

Carl E. [?] letter to Louis Lasagna [n.d.]

Folder 2. April - June 1964 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements and conferences given or attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; and drug studies. Topics include: analgesics; Bayer aspirin advertisements; and the Hippocratic oath.





Review of The Growth of Medical Thought (Lester S. Kings), [source unknown], April 1964.

"The Misleading Advertisements of Bayer Aspirin," Fact, May-June 1964.

Warren Boroson (Fact: magazine) letter to Louis Lasagna, April 9, 1964

"On Evaluating Drug Therapy: The Nature of the Evidence," reprinted from Drugs In Our Society, 1964.

"The Clinical Evaluation of Morphine And Its Substitutions As Analgesics," Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, John Hopkins University of Medicine, [1964].

"The Analgesic Efficacy and Respiratory Effects In Man Of A Benzomorphan "Narcotic Antagonist," [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal Of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, April 1964.

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1964

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1964

Review of 1963-1964 Year Book of Drug Therapy, Archives of Internal Medicine (Harry Beckman), June 1964.

Review of Absorption And Distribution of Drugs, (ed. T.B. Bines), from Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of The Year Book of Medicine (1963-1964), (ed. Beeson, et al.), from Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of The Complications of Modern Medical Practiced. A Treatise In Iatrogenic Diseases (David M. Spain), from Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Clinical Investigation In Medicine: Legal, Ethical And Moral Aspects, (ed. Ladimer and Newman), from Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Review of Elementary Medical Statistics (Donald Mainland), from Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Houston Peterson letter to Louis Lasagna, June 28, 1964

"The G.P. Is Still Needed," The New York Times Magazine, April 19, 1964.

Folder 3. July - December 1964 Letters to and from Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna. Topics include: drug development and testing; the Hippocratic Oath; the Medical Committee for Human Rights; placeboes; and S.A.N.E. (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy).





"The Diseases Drugs Cause," reprinted from Perspectives In Biology And Medicine, Summer 1964.

"Problems of Drug Development," Science, July 24, 1964.

"A New Series of Teaching Clinics," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1964.

Oscar Buenconsejo letter to Louis Lasagna, October 3, 1963 Attached to copy of Louis Lasagna letter to Editor, The New Yorker Magazine June 11, 1963





Louis Lasagna letter to Oscar Buenconsejo, October 8, 1963 Question for Jim/Lori: remove to the appropriate 1963 folder??





Dave [ - ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, July 13, 2014

"Problems of Drug Development," Science, July 24, 1964.

"Clinical Pharmacology" (editorial), The Lancet, July 11, 1964.

"No Choice" [Baltimore Sun?], October 1964.

Review of Textbook of Medical Treatment, (ed. Dunlop, et al.), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of A Short History Of The Gout And The Rheumatic Diseases (W.S.G. Copeman), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Readings in Pharmacology, (ed. Holmstedt and Liljestrand), [source unknown], n.d.

Review of Advances in Pharmacology, Vol. II, (ed. Garattini and Shore), The Quarterly Review of Biology, n.d.

John Wilson letter to Louis Lasagna, October 8, 1964

Louis Lasagna letter to John Wilson, October 15, 1964 attached to letter from John Wilson





William Bronston letter to Louis Lasagna, October 17, 2014

"Man's Worst Enemy: Himself," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1964.

Review of Medical Pharmacology, Principles, and Concepts, 2nd Edition (Andres Goth), [source unknown], October 1964.

J.H. Means letter to Louis Lasagna, November 5, 1964

Review of Counseling The Dying, (ed. Bowers, et al.), [source unknown], n.d.

Henry Steele letter to Louis Lasagna, November 11, 1964

"C.D. Report" [Baltimore Sun?], November 30, 1964.

Review of Advances in Drug Research, (ed. Harper and Simmonds), Science, December 4, 1964.

Folder 4. January - March 1965 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given by Lasagna; reprints of articles by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna. Topics include: birth control; drug side effects; Federal Drug Administration (FDA); Federal Trade Commission (FTC); and S.A.N.E. (National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy).





Ralph Ginzburg letter to Louis Lasagna, January 12, 1965

H.H. Saunderson letter to Louis Lasagna, January 19, 1965

"The Journal Changes Editors" (editorial, [co-authored]), reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1965.

"The Quantification of Desired And Undesired Effects Of Reproductive Controls: Some Principles And Problems," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1965.

Introduction to "Fumifugium or, The Inconvenience Of The Aer, And Smoake Of London Dissipated," reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1965.

Jacques P. Bossiere letter to Louis Lasagna, January 29, 1965

H. Kranz letter to Louis Lasagna, February 18, 1965

"Problem der Arneimittelforschung," Die Pharmazeutische Industrie, 1964; [attached to letter dated February 18, 1965].

John A. Oates letter to Louis Lasagna, February 9, 1965

"Abnormal Taste Threshold In Diabetes," reprinted from The Lancet, March 6, 1965.

"Drug Toxicity In Man: The Problem And The Challenge," reprinted from Annals of New York Academy of Sciences, March 12, 1965.

P.E. Dresel letter to Louis Lasagna, March 4, 1965

"Analgeste and Psychotomimetric Properties of Dexoxadrol," [co-authored], reprinted from The Society For Experimental Biology and Medicine, 1965.

Folder 5. April - September 1965 Letters to Lasagna, announcements, schedules, programs etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; reprints of articles by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; and photographs. Topics include: the Eighth Annual Medical Progress Assembly; Lasanga's trip to Stockholm; and Lasagna's book The Doctors' Dilemmas.





"Drug Houses and the Law," Symposium On Regulations Of Pharmaceutical Drugs, n.d.

Eugene A. Stead Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, May 10, 1965

Maxwell Finland letter to Louis Lasagna, June 2, 1965

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1965

Thomas B. Turner letter to Louis Lasagna, June 15, 1965

"Addicting Drugs And Medical Practice: Toward The Elaboration Of Realistic Goals And The Eradication Of Myths, Mirages, And Half-Truths," from Narcotics, ed. Daniel M. Wilner and Gene G. Kassebaum, McGraw-Hill, inc., 1965.

"The Diseases Drugs Cause," reprinted from Perspectives In Biological Medicine, n.d.

Review of Man and His Future, (ed. Gordon Wolstenholme), The Quarterly Review of Biology, n.d.

Introduction to "Symposium: Population Growth and Control," from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1965.

B.G. Greenberg letter to Louis Lasagna, September 24, 1965

William L. Hawley letter to Louis Lasagna, September 24, 1965

Review of The British Journal of Medicine's Today's Drugs, Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Ancel Keys letter to Louis Lasagna, September 24, 1965

William B. Tucker letter to Louis Lasagna Re: Lasagna's resignation as co-editor of Journal of Chronic Diseases





Charles S. Davidson letter to Louis Lasagna, September 28, 1965

Ethel Cohen letter to Louis Lasagna, September 30, 1965

Folder 6. October - December 1965 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; including the White House Conferences on Health and International Cooperation; reprints and articles by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: birth control; self sacrifice and Vietnam War protest; John Hopkins Medical History Club; and Sarsaparilla Restorative.





"How Reliable Are Enteric-Coated Aspirin Preparations?" reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology And Therapeutics, October 1965.

C.R. Stephen letter to Louis Lasagna, November 3, 1965

"Victims of War,'" [editorial, Vietnam], Baltimore Sun, November 3, 1965.

"The Field of Medicine Has Many Ailments," review of The Field of Medicine Has Many Ailments (Selig Greenburg), New York Times, November 7,1965.

"Drug Interaction in the Field of Analgesic Drugs," reprinted from Symposium Number 7, Section II, Clinical Effects of Interaction Between Drugs, Proceedings of The Royal Society of Medicine, November 1965.

William K. Hamilton letter to Louis Lasagna, November 16, 1965

Douglas Cater (The White House) letter to Louis Lasagna, November 20, 1965

Review of Annual Review of Pharmacology, (Ed. Cutting, et al.) Bulletin of John Hopkins Hospital, November 1965.

Hubert H. Humphrey letter to Louis Lasagna, November 29, 1965

John S. Rodman letter to Louis Lasagna, November 27, 1965

"The Medicines We Take," review of The Therapeutic Nightmare (Morton Mintz), New York Times, November 28, 1965; [a response by both Mintz and Lasagna can also be found in this folder].

"The Quantification Of Desired and Undesired Effects Of reproductive Controls: Some Principles And Problems," reprinted from Public Health And Populations Change, University of Pittsburgh, 1965.

W.D. McElroy letter to Louis Lasagna, December 2, 1965

Louis Lasagna letter to Milton S. Eisenhower [co-authored], December 8, 1965

Jeremiah Stamler letter to Louis Lasagna, December 17, 1965

Ralph Ginzburg letter to Louis Lasagna, December 9, 1965

John [Thomas Connor?] letter to Louis Lasagna, December 14, 1965

Introduction to "Symposium: Growth And Control," from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1965.

Donald O. Lyman letter to Louis Lasagna, December 19, 1965

Hubert H. Humphrey letter to Louis Lasagna, December 20, 1965

Folder 7. January - July 1966 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; reprints and articles by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; and photographs. Topics include: birth control; abortion; Ginzburg vs. United States; brain oxygenation in stroke patients; FDA regulations; Iatrogenic Disorders; sleeping pills; and training for doctors.





Margaret T. Corwin letter to Louis Lasagna, January 2, 1966

"Maternity and Radiation" (editorial), Baltimore Sun, January 10, 1966.

Hubert H. Humphrey letter to Louis Lasagna, January 4, 1966

Dave [- ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, January 28, 1966

"A Controlled Trial of Urethane Treatment in Multiple Myeloma," [co-authored], Blood, March 1966.

Alvan R. Feinstein letter to Louis Lasagna, January 17, 1965

Morton Mintz letter to Louis Lasagna, January 22, 1966

"The Unwanted," review of The Afternoon Women (Lael Tucker Wertenbaker), The New York Times Book Review, April 3, 1966.

Ralph Ginsburg letter to Louis Lasagna, April 4, 1966

Harold C. Hodge letter to Louis Lasagna, April 25, 1966

"Clinical Pharmacology: Present Status and Future Developments," reprinted from Science, April 15, 1966.

"The Uneven Quality of Medical Care," Review of Hospitals, Doctors, and the Public Interest, (John C. Knowles. ed), Frontier, April 1966.

Rohulia Leipp letter to Louis Lasagna, April 25, 1966

Wilhelmina Waller letter to Louis Lasagna, May 5, 1966

Editorial about Ralph Ginzburg, Playboy, January 1966.

"Conjoint Clinic On Pain and Analgesia" [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1966.

"Can The Public Be Overprotected?" Medical Tribune and Medical News, November 2, 1966.

"General Considerations Concerning Untoward Effects of Drugs In Man," reprinted from Proceedings of the 3rd International Pharmacological Meeting, July 24-30, 1966.

"The Clinical Pharmacology of Analgesics and Analgesic Antagonists," reprinted from Proceedings of the 3rd International Pharmacological Meeting, July 24 - 30 1966.

Folder 8. August - December 1966 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; reprints and articles by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna. Topics include: drug abuse; hypnotic drugs; medical ethics and research; and therapeutics.





"Phenformin and Lactic Acidosis" [co-authored], reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, July-August 1966.

"The Choice of a Mild Analgesic," Prescribers' Journal, August 1966.

"Combined Clinical and Metabolic Study of the Effects of Alpha-Methyldopa on Hypersensitive Patients" [co-authored], Circulation, August 1966.

"Statistics: Vital and Lively," editorial from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1966.

George James letter to Louis Lasagna, November 7, 1966

Joan M. Wolle letter to Louis Lasagna, November 10, 1966

"Is Narcotic Addiction A Chronic Disease," editorial from Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1966.

"Is Written Consent Really Necessary? Does FDA Overprotect Public?" Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, December 27, 1966.

Folder 9. January - May 1967 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna, including a review of International Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Section 6, Vol. I II: Clinical Pharmacology, edited by Lasagna, and an interview with Lasagna in Medical World News; and drug trial reprints. Topics include: Maryland House Bill no. 347; drug consent rules; Indomethacin; pediatrics; and placebo.





"The Hypnotic Efficacy Of Doxylamine" [co-authored], reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, January-February 1967.

Sister Mary Alma letter to Louis Lasagna, January 26, 1967

"The Pharmacological Basis For The Effective Use of Hypnotics," Pharmacology for Physicians, February 1967.

John S. Kieffer letter to Louis Lasagna, February 17, 1967

Gerald J. Curran letter to Louis Lasagna, February 20, 1967 Maryland House of Delegates Bill 347 and letters attached





Louis Lasagna letter to Gerald Curran, March 8, 1967 attached to February 20, 1967





Gerald Curran letter to Louis Lasagna, March 13, 1967 attached to February 20, 1967





Louis Lasagna letter to Chairman, House Judicial Committee [Maryland], March 23, 1967 attached to February 20, 1967





"Consent for Clinical Investigation" [editorial], The New England Journal of Medicine, March 23, 1967.

Max Finland letter to Louis Lasagna, April 3, 1967

James Goddard letter to Louis Lasagna, April 10, 1967

"Russian Surgeon," review of The Open Heart (N. Amosoff), The New York Times Book Review, April 9, 1967.

"A Comparison Of Acetophenetiden And Acetaminophen" [co-authored], reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, n.d.

"A Study of Cross-Tolerance To Circulatory Effects Of Organic Nitrates" [co-authored], reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, March-April, 1967.

Jamil Malouf letter to Louis Lasagna, April 17, 1967

"Indomethacin Variables," Medical News, n.d.

Folder 10. June - December 1967 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; reprints of articles by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna, including a review of International Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Section 6, Vol. I II: Clinical Pharmacology, edited by Lasagna; and photographs. Topics include: alumni honored at the Centennial Convocation of New Brunswick High School; birth control; Federal Trade Commission; 46th South African Medical Congress (Lasagna's trip to South Africa); and World Health Organization.





Ira Glasser (New York Civil Liberties Union) letter to Louis Lasagna, June 19, 1967

"Use of Analgesics In Clinical Practice," reprinted from New Concepts In Pain and Its Clinical Management, n.d.

H.P. [Houston Peterson?] letter to Louis Lasagna, June 25, 1967

S. [?] Kennedy [Harvard College] letter to Louis Lasagna, June 1967 [?]

"The Clinical Pharmacologist as a Servant of Society," reprinted from The Canadian Medical Association Journal, July 15, 1967.

R. Keith Cannan letter to Louis Lasagna, September 15, 1967

Milton Silverman letter to Louis Lasagna, September 18, 1967

"Many Need Are Still Unmet Despite High Medical Level," Medical Tribune and Medical News, October 30, 1967.

"Newton's Beginnings as a Mathematical," review of The Mathematical Papers of Isaac Newton (D.T. Whiteside), Science, October 13, 1967.

"Tangled Issues and Attitudes Found in a 'Cultural Squeeze,'" Medical Tribune, November 2, 1967.

Max Finland letter to Louis Lasagna, November 24, 1967

Review of Drug Adulteration (Ernst W. Steib), Bulletin of History of Medicine, November-December 1967.

David Cavers letter to Louis Lasagna, December 26, 1967

Box 4: 1968-1969

Folder 1. January - June 1968 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. from speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; reprints and articles by Lasagna; advertisements and reviews of Lasagna's book Life, Death, and the Doctor; photographs; and reprints and articles by other authors. Topics include: drug abuse; (history of) drug control; aging; and reviews of Life, Death, and the Doctor.





"Some Ethical Problems in Clinical Investigations," S.A. Medical Journal, January 6, 1968.

Louis Lasagna letter to Gerald J. Curran, February 19, 1968

Worth B. Daniels letter to Louis Lasagna, February 24, 1968

Edwin Castagna letter to Louis Lasagna, February 23, 1968

"Arcus Not So Senilis," [co-authored], reprinted from Annals Of Internal Medicine, February 2, 1968.

"Ethics of Human Testing," Review of Human Guinea Pigs (M.H. Pappworth), The Washington Post, February 27, 1969.

Geoffrey Wolff (Washington Post) letter to Louis Lasagna, March 18, 1968

"Drugs Through The Ages," reprinted from the S.A. Medical Journal, March 1968.

"A Person's Right To Die," The John Hopkins Magazine, Spring 1968.

"Drugs as Etiological Factors in the Stevens-Johnson Syndrome," [co-authored], American Journal of Medicine, n.d.

Edyth H. Schoenrich letter to Louis Lasagna, April 23, 1968

Harold L. Upjohn letter to Louis Lasagna, April 25, 1968

"Correlation Of Dextroamphetamine Excretion And Drug Response In Hyperkinetic Children," reprinted from The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorder, n.d.

H. Vasken Aposhian letter to Louis Lasagna, May 1, 1968

Charles Callanan letter to Louis Lasagna, May 3, 1968

Charles Callana letter to Louis Lasagna, May 3, 1968

Walter C. Alvarez letter to Louis Lasagna, May 8, 1968 copy; review of Lasagna's book by Alvarez is attached





Marion J. Finkel letter to Louis Lasagna

"What We Don't Know About Drugs," [source unknown], n.d.

"Tolerance To Drug-Induced Writhing In Mice," [co-authored] reprinted from The Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, n.d.

Betty Groeble letter to Louis Lasagna, n.d. contains photograph of Lasagna [and the radio host?].





Chauncey D. Leake letter to Louis Lasagna, June 13, 1968

Dave [ - ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, June 14, 1968

"Crisis in Biomedical Research," [source unknown], n.d.

Folder 2. July - September 1968 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; advertisements for and reviews of Life, Death, and the Doctor; and photographs. Topics include: birth control; prescription drugs; Life, Death, and the Doctor, and the World Health Organization.





Paul Frumkin letter to Louis Lasagna, July 9, 1968

Bertram S. Brown letter to Louis Lasagna, July 19, 1968

H. Grant-Whyte letter to Louis Lasagna, August 12, 1968

Samuel Proger letter to Louis Lasagna, August 12, 1968

Ashbel Green letter to Louis Lasagna, September 16, 1968

Sister M. Anita letter to Louis Lasagna, September 17, 1968

Duncan [Lee ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, September 20, 1968

Folder 3. October - December 1968 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; reprints and articles by Lasagna; reviews of Life, Death, and the Doctor; articles about Lasagna; and photographs. Topics include: birth control; drug abuse; Marijuana; Life, Death, and the Doctor; "Doctor and Society" teaching series, and the World Health Organization.





Carl [ - ?] letter to Louis Lasagna [?], October 1968 Includes photograph





"The Grass Isn't Greener," review of Mind Drugs (Margaret O. Hyde), New York Times, October 3, 1968.

John F.X. Nasidka Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, October 11, 1968 Author seems to be a young person imprisoned or held in a mental institution in Michigan regarding marijuana use/charges and is a fan of Louis Lasagna's work on drugs.





Edwin Castagna letter to Louis Lasagna, October 17, 1968

Paul Pentel letter to Louis Lasagna, October 27, 1968

"A Comparison Of The Effects Of Orally Administered Barbiturate And Barbiturate Acids In Human Psychomotor Performance," [co-authored], The Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, n.d.

John F. X. Nasidka Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, October 29, 1968

"Drug Communication and the Physician," Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, October 1968.

John [ - ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, November 1, 1968

"Caution On The Pill," Saturday Review, November 2, 1968.

John F.X. Nasidka Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, November 6, 1968

Roy A. Bowers letter to Louis Lasagna, November 8, 1968

Louis Lasagna letter to Harold Frankel, November 11, 1968

Harold Frankel letter to Louis Lasagna, November 14, 1968 This letter is handwritten at the bottom of Lasagn'as letter from the 11th.





"Setting the Record Straight on 'To the fullest extent,'" reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, November - December 1968.

Benjamin Spock (Dr. Spock) letter to Louis Lasagna, December 2, 1968

Joseph D. Cooper letter to Louis Lasagna, December 2, 1968 Book review attached





Mom and Pop [Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lasagna] letter to Louis Lasagna, n.d.

Kay [CW ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, December 9, 1968

"Lasagna Rebuttal" (editorial), JAMA, December 9, 1968.

Redmond C.S. Finney letter to Louis Lasagna, December 11, 1968

"A Comparison Of The Effects Of Orally Administered Barbiturate Salts And Barbiturate Acids In Human Psychomotor Performance," [co-authored], The Journal of Pharmacology And Experimental Therapeutics, n.d.

Folder 4. January - March 1969 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; reprints and articles by Lasagna; reviews of Life, Death, and the Doctor; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: amphetamines; analgesics; birth control; fatality; Federal Drug Administration; and pain killers.





S. W. Bible letter to Louis Lasagna, January 10, 1969

W. Byron Forbush II letter to Louis Lasagna, January 12, 1969

Maynard W. Webster letter to Louis Lasagna, February 20, 1969

"The Dangers of Drug Traffic," a review of The Seekers (Jess Stearn), The New York Times Book Review, January 16, 1969.

"The Doctor And Dying Patient," an editorial reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, January 30, 1969.

"Dr. Lasagna Replies" (editorial) SR [?] March 1, 1969.

Marjorie M. Anderson letter to Louis Lasagna, March 17, 1969

Folder 5. April - May 1969 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; Lasagna testimony before the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce on cigarette labeling; articles by Lasagna; reviews of Life, Death, and the Doctor; articles about Lasagna. Topics include: amphetamines; birth control; "Doctor and Society" teaching series; the Federal Drug Administration; and Maryland politics.





Nancy E. Frasure letter to Louis Lasagna, April 10, 1969

Harold W. Brown letter to Louis Lasagna, April 14, 1969

AP [?] letter to Louis Lasagna, April 14, [1969?]

"Problemi tecnici e pratici nella sperimentazione clinica dei farmaci," Applicazioni bio-mediche del calcolo elettronico [?], April - June 1969.

Senatory J.A. Sullivan letter to Louis Lasagna, April 21, 1969

Testimony of Louis Lasagna, M.D., Before House Committee on INterstate and Foreign Commerce, Hearings on Cigarette Laveling Act, April 22, 1969.

Irvin Cushner letter to Louis Lasagna, April 23, 1969

Clyde R. Shallenberger letter to Louis Lasagna, April 25, 1969

David Seegal letter to Louis Lasagna, April 26, 1969 includes poem "More Thine Than Mine"





Harry Shirkey letter to Louis Lasagna, April 26, 1969

Faculty of Johns Hopkins University Open letter to Governor Mandel Re: current laws of the state of Maryland pertaining to the possession, use and sale of the so-called drugs of abuse and addiction.

Mary Pritchard letter to Louis Lasagna, May 5, 1969

Harry K. Beecher letter to Louis Lasagna, May 22, 1969

Frank [- ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, n.d.

Folder 6. June - August 1969 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; and medical articles by others. Topics include: diet and the heart; drug consent rules; and the hazards of smoking.





"Manifesto From a Middle-Aged Man," The Philiater, June 1969.

Bernard S. Brodie letter to Louis Lasagna, June 6, 1969

Rick North letter to Louis Lasagna, n.d.

Frederick Seitz letter to Louis Lasagna, June 12, 1969

Stanley Schor letter to Louis Lasagna, June 16, 1969

John A. Oates letter to Louis Lasagna, June 17, 1969

Jerome Levine letter to Louis Lasagna, June 17, 1969

Robert E. Keenan letter to Louis Lasagna, June 20, 1969

A.S. Dahr letter to Louis Lasagna, June 21, 1969

"Obtaining Informed Consent," [co-authored] reprinted from the Archives of Internal Medicine, June, 1969.

"The Future of Clinical Pharmacology," reprinted from Military Medicine, July 7, 1969.

Review of The American University (Jacques Barzun) and The Closed Corporation (James Ridgeway) AAUP Bulletin, summer 1969.

Carol Johnson Johns letter to Louis Lasagna, June 24, 1969

Charles L. Dunham letter to Louis Lasagna, June 30, 1969

John Burns letter to Louis Lasagna, July 8, 1969

Review of Man Against Cancer (Bernard Glemser), The New York Times Book Review, August 17, 1969.

Folder 7. September - December 1969 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; and medical articles by others. Topics include: birth control; cyclamates; Lasagna's appointment to the University of Rochester Pharmacology Department; organ donation; Panalba; and the World Health Organization.





"If Not The Pill - What?" Vogue, October 15, [1969].

John [ - ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, October 30, 1969

J. Lowell Orbison (Strong Memorial Hospital) letter to Louis Lasagna, November 3, 1969 Acknowledging Lasagna's acceptance of Chairmanship of Pharmacology and Toxicology at University of Rochester School of Medicine





Louis Lasagna letter to David E. Rogers, November 13, 1969 Lasagna reflects on his decision to come to Rochester "In my opinion, the school is in for a renaissance and should be even stronger in the future than it has been in the past."





W. Allen Wallis letter to Louis Lasagna, November 17, 1969 Lasagna's appointment at University of Rochester School of Medicine





Joel Elkes letter to Louis Lasagna, November 19, 1969

David E. Rogers letter to Louis Lasagna, November 24, 1969

I.M. Weiner letter to Louis Lasagna, November 25, 1969 Says of Lasagna's move to Rochester: "This might be one of the best things to have happened in American Pharmacology!"





Arnold D. Welch letter to Louis Lasagna, November 28, 1969

"Prescribing Patterns Of Physicians," [co-authored], reprinted from Journal of Chronic Diseases, n.d.

Maxwell Finland letter to Louis Lasanga, n.d. written on a Finland reprint





"The Pharmaceutical Revolution: Its Impact On Science and Society," reprinted from Science, December 5, 1969.

Alvin B. Varley letter to Louis Lasagna, December 11, 1969

Nathan Kline letter to Louis Lasagna, December 11, 1969

James B. Hartgering letter to Louis Lasagna, December 18, 1969

J. Lowell Orbison letter to Louis Lasagna, December 22, 1969

Henry M. Seidel letter to Louis Lasagna, December 23, 1969

Nathan Kline letter to Louis Lasagna, December 29, 1969

F.M. Berger letter to Louis Lasagna, December 29, 1969

Thomas C. Butler letter to Louis Lasagna, December 29, 1969

Curtis J. Lund letter to Louis Lasagna, December 29, 1969

Joseph F. Sadusk letter to Louis Lasagna, December 30, 1969

Lois F. Lunin letter to Louis Lasagna, December 31, 1969

William H. Goldwater letter to Louis Lasagna, December 31, 1969

Box 5: 1970-April 1973

Folder 1. January - March 1970 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; press releases; and photographs. Topics include: birth control; medical ethics; physician bias and poverty; and Lasagna's appointment to the University of Rochester Pharmacology Department.





Maxwell Finland letter to Louis Lasagna, January 2, 1970

Leon Lachman letter to Louis Lasagna, January 5, 1970

Patricia Byrne letter to Louis Lasagna, January 6, 1970

Melchijah Spragins letter to Helen and Louis Lasagna, January 10, 1970

"The Doctor's Clay Feet," The Ethical Platform, January 11, 1970.

A.C. Spectorsky (Playboy Magazine) letter to Louis Lasagna, January 12, 1970

Jerome Nathanson letter to Louis Lasagna, January 14, 1970

"Drug Evaluation Problems In Academic And Other Contexts," reprinted from the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, January 21, 1970.

Dorothy L. Arnold letter to Louis Lasagna, January 22, 1970

Matt Clark letter to Louis Lasagna, January 26, 1970

Gerhard Levy letter to Louis Lasagna, January 28, 1970

Wallace O. Fenn letter to Louis Lasagna, January 29 1970

"Effects of SU-13437 on Serum Lipids In Hyperlipoproteinemic Patients," [co-authored], reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology And Therapeutics, January - February 1970.

"Metabolism of SU-13437 - A New Hypolipidemic Drug In Man," reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology And Therapeutics, January - February 1970.

Alfred W. Bressler letter to Louis Lasagna, February 10 1970

Edward P. Radford letter to Louis Lasagna, February 11 1970

Burton Cohen letter to Louis Lasagna, February 12 1970

Charles R. Kleeman letter to Louis Lasagna n.d.

Robert McNeil Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, February 12 1970

Gilbet H. Mudge letter to Louis Lasagna, February 16, 1970

Tommy Lawhorne letter to Louis Lasagna, February 16, 1970

Walter L. Way letter to Louis Lasagna, February 17, 1970

John A. Owen Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, February 18, 1970

Hugh Dickinson letter to Louis Lasagna, February 19, 1970

Irvine H. Page letter to Louis Lasagna, March 23, 1970

Henry Beecher letter to Louis Lasagna, March 31, 1970

Folder 2. April - June 1970 Letters to and from Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, scripts, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; press releases; inventory of office equipment; and medical articles by other authors. Topics include: dying; The Doctors' Dilemmas; Lasagna's appointment to the University of Rochester Pharmacology Department; Lasagna's effort to transfor labaratory equipment from Baltimore to Rochester; and pain.





Harry C. Shirkey letter to Louis Lasagna, April 3, 1970

David Seegal letter to Louis Lasagna n.d. Contains poem "Middle-Age-Ship"





Max Tishler letter to Louis Lasagna, April 8, 1970

Richard Allen Chase letter to Louis Lasagna, April 20, 1970

"Manifesto From a Middle-Aged Man," P

James A. Bain letter to Louis Lasagna, April 22, 1970

David Rogers letter to Louis Lasagna, April 28, 1970

Douglass W. Walker letter to Louis Lasagna, May 2, `1970

Louis Lasagna letter to David E. Rogers, May 11, 1970 Attached to Roger's letter from May 2





Louis Lasagna letter to A. McGehee Harvey, May 22, 1970

David E. Rogers letter to Louis Lasagna, May 19, 1970 Attached to A. McGehee Harvey letter of May 22





David C. Denise letter to Louis Lasagna, May 29, 1970

"Friends School Commencement Talk", June 9, 1970

Jim Curtis (Friend's School) letter to Louis Lasagna, June 11, 1970

Louis Lasagna letter to Dave [-Rogers?], June 13, 1970

Chauncey Leake letter to Louis Lasagna, June 16, 1970

David E. Rogers letter to Louis Lasagna, June 17, 1960

Louis Lasagna letter to A. McGehee Harvey, June 26, 1970

"Challenges In Drug Evaluation In Man," reprinted from Annual Review Of Pharmacology, n.d.

"A Doctor Views A Giant Hospital," review of Five Patients, The Hospital Explained (Michael Crichton), Life, June 19, 1970.

"How Physicians Prescribe Drugs," [co-authored], reprint from Socialmedicinsk tidskrift, Stockholm, Sweden, 1970.

"The Prognosis of Death," from The Dying Patient, Ed. Orville G Brim, et al., Russell Sage Foundation, 1970.

Folder 3. July - December 1970 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; press releases. Topics include: computers in pharmacology research; coronary drugs, the elderly, national health insurance, teaching, terminal illness, and the World Health Organization.





"Toxicity of Hepatotoxic Drugs on Mouse Liver Tissue Culture," [co-authored], reprinted from Archives Internationales de Pharmacodynamie et de Therapie, July 1970.

G. Fredrick Roll letter to Philip F. Jehle, August 25, 1970

Cliff Carpenter letter to Milton B. Lederman, August 28, 1970

"L-Dopa Treatment Failure: Explanation and Correction," [co-authored], reprinted from the British Medical Journal, October 10, 1970.

"The Coronary Drug Project: Initial Findings Leading to Modifications of its Research Protocol," [co-authored], Journal of the America Medical Association, November 16, 1970.

"Teaching and Research in Clinical Pharmacology," reprinted from International Symposium on Clinical Pharmacology, December 1970.

John P. White letter to Louis Lasagna, December 10, 1970

"Control of Hyperlipidemia..." [co-authored], reprinted from Atherosclerosis - Proceedings of the Second International Symposium, Ed. R.J. Jones, 1970.

Folder 4. January - April 1971 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; press releases; and articles by other authors. Topics include: antibiotics; drug abuse; and headache treatment.





"Drug Combinations: Sense And Nonsense," Commentaries, January 1971.

"The Many Faces of Drug Abuse," Modern Medicine, April 6, 1970.

"Drug Combinations: Sense And Nonsense," Medical Tribune, January 6, 1971.

"A Study of Hospital Staff Attitudes Concerning the Comparative Merits of Antibiotics," [co-authored], reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, January - February 1971.

Barney [ - ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, February 4, 1971

Allen Wallis letter to Louis Lasagna, April 9, 1971

Theodore G. Klumpp letter to Louis Lasagna, April 9, 1971

"On the Other Hand," Medical World News, n.d.

Fred W. Beutlich letter to Louis Lasagna

Chauncey Leake letter to Louis Lasagna, April 13, 1971

Carol Vlack letter to Louis Lasagna, April 18 [1971?] U of R undergrad thanking Lasagna for his remarks at a Phi Beta Kappa ceremony





"Absorption and Metabolism of L-Dopa by The Human Stomach," [co-authored], [source unknown], n.d

Miriam B. Rock letter to Louis Lasagna, April 30, 1971

Folder 5. May - August 1971 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna. Topics include: Lasagna's induction into the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences; drug abuse; diabetes.





William H. Havener letter to Louis Lasagna, May 7, 1971

Mom and Pop [Mr. and Mrs Joseph Lasagna] letter to Louis Lasagna, May 10, 1971

Francois M. Abboud letter to Louis Lasagna, May 14, 1971

"Burroughs Welcome Fund Endows Professorship in CLinical Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins Medical School" (press release) n.d.

John Hogness letter to Louis Lasagna, May 20, 1971

Review of Shaw and the Doctors (Roger Boxill),reprinted from Bulletin of the History of Medicine, May - June 1971.

Harold [ - ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, May 21, 1971

Franz J. Ingelfinger letter to Louis Lasagna, June 1, 1971

J. Lowell Orbison letter to Louis Lasagna, June 3, 1971

Max Tishler letter to Louis Lasagna, June 14, 1971

"Decision Processes in Establishing the Efficacy and Safety of Psychotropic Agents,"[co-authored] reprinted from Principles and Problems of Establishing the Efficacy of Psychotropic Agents, n.d.

Philip Handler letter to Louis Lasagna, June 30, 1971

Review of The Principles and Practice of Clinical Trials: Based on a Symposium Organized by the Association of Medical Advisors in the Pharmaceutical Industry, Ed. E.: Harris and J.D. Fitzgerald, The New England Journal of Medicine, n.d.

Review of The Story of Ergot (F.J. Bove), Bulletin of the History of Medicine, July - August 1971.

Max Ellenberg letter to Louis Lasagna, July 8, 1971

"Metabolism and Absorption of L-3,4 Dihydroxyphenylalanine In Patients With Parkinson's Disease," [co-authored], reprinted from Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, July 6, 1971.

Mayor John V. Lindsay letter to Louis Lasagna, July 10, 1971

Murray Chastain letter to Louis Lasagna, August 19, 1971

"Analgesic Activity of Oral and Intramuscular Profadol," reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, July - August 1971.

"Preferences in Antibiotic Prescribing," British Medical Journal, August 21, 1971.

Folder 6. September - December 1971 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; press releases; and medical articles by other authors. Topics include: Lasagna's assistance of a heart attack victim in LaGuardia Airport; the National Academy of Sciences; and the World Health Organization.





Jacques and Anita Lipson (Temple Beth El) letter to Louis Lasagna, October 13, 1971

Louis Frank letter to Louis Lasagna, October 14, 1971

Louis L. Frank letter to University of Rochester Medical School Board of Trustees, October 14, 1971

Editorial on fixed combination drugs, Science, October 15, 1971.

G.J. Kidera letter to Louis Lasagna, October 18, 1971

E.J Genader letter to Louis Lasagna, October 18, 1971

Sir Richard Doll letter to Louis Lasagna, October 19, 1971

"Characteristics and Attitudes of Physicians Associated with the Prescribing of Chloramphenicol," [co-authored], HSMHA Health Reports, November 1971.

Joel Yellin letter to Louis Lasagna, November 8, 1971

Michael J. Lepore letter to Louis Lasagna, November 16, 1971

Becky Perkins letter to Louis Lasagna, n.d

"Influence of Age on Analgesic Pain Relief," (editorial), Journal of the American Medical Association, December 20, 1971.

Folder 7. January - March 1972 Announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna, including reviews of Lasagna's publications; press releases; and Lasagna's "Outstanding Educators of America" award. Topics include: the Food and Drug Administration; and Lasagna's appointment to the faculty of SUNY School of Pharmacy.





"Die Pharmazeutische Revolution Und Ihr Ein fluss Auf Wissenscaft Und Gesellschaft," Informationscienst, 1972.

"Die Beweisfuhrun in der pharmakologischen Forschung," Triangle, 1972.

"Research Regulation, and Development of New Pharmaceuticals: Past, Present, and Future, Part I," The American Journal of The Medical Sciences, January 1972.

"Research Regulation, and Development of New Pharmaceuticals: Past, Present, and Future, Part II," The American Journal of The Medical Sciences, February 1972.

"The Relationship between Physicians Characteristics and Prescribing Appropriateness," [co-authored], reprinted from Medical Care, January - February 1972.

"Differential Education Concerning Therapeutics And Resultant Physician Prescribing Patterns," [co-authored], Journal of Medical Education, February 1972.

"Diagnosis: US Medicine is Alive and Pretty Well," review of The Case For American Medicine (Harry Schwartz), The New York Times Book Review, December 10, 1972.

Folder 8. April - June 1972 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; press releases; and medical articles by other authors. Topics Include: cardiac transplant; diet pills; the Food and Drug Administration; Monogloid infants; the rights of the disabled; and tuberculosis.





"Drug Prescribing and Use in a American Community," [co-authored], reprinted from Annals of Internal Medicine, April 1972.

Richard J. Stock letter to Louis Lasagna, May 12, 1972

"Drugs on Trial" or "Whose Head are You" Script outline

"Teaching Award" presentation by M. Tucker, n.d.

Sir Richard Doll letter to Louis Lasagna, June 6, 1972

Folder 9. July - December 1972 Announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; and medical articles by other authors. Topics include: death and dying; diet pills; the Food and Drug Administration; lung cancer; prescription drug follow-up; subarachnoid hemorrhage and ruptured aneurysms.





"Pharmacology: A Clinical and Social Science," P

"The I.U.D. Can it Rival the Pill?" Vogue, August, 1972.

"The Impact of Scientific Models on Clinical Psychopharmacology: A Pharmacologists View," Seminars in Psychiatry, August 1972.

"Summation of Meeting," reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Theraputics, September-October, 1972.

"Are Combination Drug Products Useful in Treatment Involving Concomitant Use of Two or More Drugs?" [source unknown], October 1972.

"Introduction and Opening Remarks," reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology And Therapeutics, September - October, 1972.

"Take Thou...But is Your Patient Really Taking What You Prescribe?," [co-authored] Drug Therapy, November, 1972.

"Drug Therapy: Hypnotic Drugs," reprinted from The New England Journal of Medicine, December 7, 1972.

Folder 10. January - April 1973 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; and a song written and performed by Lasagna by his staff in honor of his 50th Birthday. Topics include: Award for Distinguished Achievement (Modern Medicine); euthanasia; insomnia medication; and Lasagna's 50th birthday celebration.





"The Case for American Medicine," Bulletin of the Medical Society of the County of Monroe, January, 1973.

Charlie Ticker and Thomas Erwin letter to Louis Lasagna, January 25, 1973

Alice L. Foley letter to Louis Lasagna, January 27, 1973 Offer of appointment as adjunct lecturer in biology at Nazareth College





K.B. Newton (Community Leaders of America) letter to Louis Lasagna, n.d.

Charles C. Renshaw letter to Milt B. Lederman, February 9, 1973

Milt Ledermen to Louis Lasagna, n.d. hand written on letter from Charles Renshaw from February 9, 1973.





Allen B. Dobkin letter to Louis Lasagna, April 2, 1973

"Effecting Euthanasia Should Not Be Secretive," (editorial) National Observer, April 28, 1973.

Box 6: May 1973-June 1975

Folder 1. May - August 1973 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs etc. for speaking engagements given and conference attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; China Exchange newsletters (Spring 1973 and Summer-Fall 1973); and PARCOST Comparative Drug Index, Ministry of Health, May 1973. Topics include: appetite suppressants; and euthanasia.





Jean Watkeys (Kodak Medical Department) letter to Louis Lasagna, May 25, 1973

Milton E. Lederman letter to Dorothy Cotton (WHEC-TV), n.d.

Senator Ervin telegram to Louis Lasagna, June 29, 1973

"Contribution of Drug Utilization and Prescribing Studies in Health Serivices Planning," [co-authored] in Uses of Epidemiology in Planning Health Services (A. Michael Davies, ed.) Belgrade: International Epidemiological Association, 1973.

"Attitudes Toward Appetite Suppressants," Journal of the American Medical Association, July 2, 1973.

Folder 2. September - December 1973 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, schedules, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; and medical articles by other authors. Topics include: controlled trials; drug lag; euthanasia; generic vs. brand-name drugs; hypnotics; cromolyn; and medical ethics.





"Can One Teach Medical Ethics?" Medical Review, University of Rochester, Fall 1973.

"The Generic Vs. Brand-Name Controversy : A Mad Tea Party?" Drug Therapy, September 1973.

"Morphologic And Biochemical Changes In The Gut After Chronic Treatment With L-Dopa 1, The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, n.d.

Harry Beecher letter to Louis and Helen Lasagna, October 19, 1973

Diana Dripps letter to Louis and Helen Lasagna, December 3 [1973?]

Walle J.H. Nauta letter to Louis Lasagna, November 13, 1973

Fred Plum letter to Louis Lasagna, November 15, 1973

Steve Levenson letter to Louis Lasagna, December 2, 1973

Bettie McLeod letter to Louis Lasagna, December 18, 1973 Page proof of article for Family Practice News attached





Rochester Shakespeare Theater letter to Louis Lasagna, December 19, 1973

"Mebutamate as a Hypnotic: Clinical Trial and Statistical Considerations," [co-authored], reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, November - December, 1973.

[Untitled, editorial] The New England Journal of Medicine, October 25, 1973.

"Life Is Not Always Better Than Death," [speech excerpt], [source unknown], n.d.

Folder 3. January - April 1974 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; photographs; and medical articles by other authors. Topics include: acupuncture; combination drugs; Food and Drug Administration; prescription labels; and rights of the disabled.





"On the Other Hand," Medical World News, n.d.

"Double duty doctor?" editorial, Upstate, January 20, 1974

"'Cocaine Article Misleading,'" editorial, Democrat and Chronicle, January 21, 1974.

Mary Betty Stevens letter to Louis Lasagna, February 7, 1974

Paul M. Hardy letter to Louis Lasagna, March 5, 1974

Phyliss Broutman letter to Louis Lasagna, March 19, 1974

Rusty Teute letter to Louis Lasagna March 27, 1974

Robert J. Janus letter to Louis Lasagna, April 1, 1974 Lasagna's article on "Medicine" for World Book Encyclopedia is attached.





Folder 4. May -June 1974 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; and articles about Lasagna. Topics include: Lasagna's book project "The X in Sex"; the Herbal Pharmacology Study Group to the People's Republic of China.





Lee Schryver letter Oliver G. Swan, May 2, 1974 Turning down Lasagna's book proposal "The X in Sex."





Pop [Joseph Lasagna] letter to Louis Lasagna, May 6, 1974

David J. Barry letter to Faculty of Psychiatry Dept., U of R, May 13, 1974

James R. Townsend letter to Denisee F. Emery, May 27, 1974 photocopy; subject: study in China





DeWitt F. Helm, Jr. letter to Louis Lasagna, May 31, 1974

Herbal Pharmacology Study Group to The People's Republic of China, June 1-16, 1974

Michael Sise letter to Louis Lasagna, June 14, 1974

Folder 5. May - June 1974 Lasagna's China diary; and scripts and notes for talks delivered on Chinese medicine and his experience in China.





Notes for "U of R China Talk", June 1974

China Diary, May 27, 1974-June 27, 1974

Folder 6. July - December 1974 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; newsletters; reviews of Lasagna's book "Obesity: Causes, Consequences and Treatments"; and medical articles by other authors. Topics include: the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences; and the Herbal Pharmacology Study Group to the People's Republic of China.





"The Nature of Evidence," Medical Sandoz, Volume 2. No. 4, 1974 (in Chinese)





"Analgesic Activity of Oral Naproxen in Patients with Posterperative Pain," [co-authored], reprinted from Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, Suppl. 2, 1973.

"How the Public Judges the Effectiveness of OTC Drugs," Pharmacy Times, July, 1974.

Alexander M. Schmidt letter to Louis Lasagna, September 23, 1974

"Current Medical practice and the Food and Drug Administration," [co-authored], Journal of the American Medical Association, September 23, 1974.

Caspar W. Weinberger letter to Louis Lasagna, Septermber 27, 1974

"Society Overmedicated?" editorial, The Lancet, September 28, 1974.

Charles C. Edwards letter to Louis Lasagna, October 8, 1974

Louisiana Health and Human Resources Administration letter to Louis Lasagna, October 17, 1974

"A Plea for the 'Naturalistic' Study of Medicine," editorial, European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, n.d.

W. Allen Wallis letter to Louis Lasagna, October 22, 1974

Gordon D. Currie letter to Louis Lasagna, November 20, 1974

J. Kobayaski letter to Louis Lasagna, November 30, 1974

Donald M. Gallant letter to Philip R.A. May, December 16, 1974

W. Allen Wallis letter to Louis Lasagna, December 18, 1974 Congratulations to Lasagna on winning the Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award





Folder 7. January - March 1975 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna; review of Lasagna's book The VD Epidemic; and press releases. Topics include: adverse drug reactions; birth control; euthanasia; human experimentation; and the Oscar B. Hunter Award.





Chauncey Leake letter to Louis Lasagna, January 5, 1975

"International Co-operation in Drug Testing," [co-authored], European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 9, 1976.

P.H. Joubert letter to Louis Lasagna, January 24, 1975

Review of The Courage to Fail: A Social View of Organ Transplants and Dialysis, (Renee C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey), [source unknown], n.d.

Frank Horton letter to Louis Lasagna, February 7, 1975 article attached re: Oscar B. Hunter Memorial Award





"US Physicians' Use Of, And Opinions On, Combination Drugs," reprinted from Combination Drugs, Ed. Louis Lasagna, n.d.

Medical Nobel Committee letter to Louis Lasagna, February 24, 1975

Johns Hopkins research committee letter to Louis Lasagna, February 28, 1975 Author unknown. Satirical letter mocking Johns Hopkin's apparent lack of regard for Lasagna's accomplishments.





"The Normal Volunteer In Clinical Investigation: How Rigid Should Selection Criteria Be?" [co-authored], reprinted from Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, March 1975.

Barbara Zartman letter to Louis Lasagna, March 8, 1975

Beatrice [ - ?] letter to Louis Lasagna, March 9, 1975

"Iron in Bread," editorial, Journal of the American Medical Association, March 10, 1975.

William M. Buchanan letter to Elmer R. Jones, March 14, 1975 article attached





Folder 8. April - June 1975 Letters to Lasagna; announcements, programs, etc. for speaking engagements given and conferences attended by Lasagna; articles and reprints by Lasagna; articles about Lasagna, including reviews of his published works; and photographs. Topics include: SAMA-UTMB National Student Research Forum; the Food and Drug Administration; placebo; and the University of Rochester pharmacology department production of "The Oz Connection."





"The FDA, Politics and the Public," [co-authored], Journal of American Medical Association, April 14, 1975.

Theodore Cooper letter to Louis Lasagna, April 16, 1975

Richard Bolt letter to Louis Lasagna, April 9, 1975

Robert Joynt letter to Louis Lasagna, n.d.

Donald Sheeley letter to Louis Lasagna, May 5, 1975

Charles N. Brown; Gregory J. O'Shanick, and Jan Shaw letter to Louis Lasagna, May 5, 1975

Jeanne Hawkins letter to Louis Lasagna, May 17, 1975

Gary Stahl letter to Louis Lasagna, May 23, 1975 nomination for Excellence in 