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Dr. Chauncey D. Leake and the University of Texas Medical Branch, 1942-1955

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A booklet published in appreciation of Dr. Chauncey D. Leake on his retirement from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1955, where he had been Executive Director since 1942. The booklet summarizes Leake's career and his contributions to both the university and the medical world at large.

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13 p. ; 23 x 16 cm.

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Leake, Chauncey Depew, 1896-1978 1955.

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This book is part of the collection entitled: Rescuing Texas History, 2018 and was provided by the Moody Medical Library, UT to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this book can be viewed below.

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The Moody Medical Library provides a place for medical students and faculty of UTMB to advance their study of medicine. The library contains “one of the world’s great historical collections of books and manuscripts in the history of medicine" in the Truman G. Blocker, Jr. History of Medicine Collections.

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A booklet published in appreciation of Dr. Chauncey D. Leake on his retirement from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 1955, where he had been Executive Director since 1942. The booklet summarizes Leake's career and his contributions to both the university and the medical world at large.

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13 p. ; 23 x 16 cm.

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Rescuing Texas History, 2018

Rescuing Texas History collects photographs, newspaper articles, letters, postcards, and other historical materials from across the state and beyond to document and preserve the rich history of the state.

Dr. Chauncey Depew Leake

Dr. Chauncey Depew Leake (1896-1978) remains the only non-medical doctor to be in charge of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in its 125-year history. He served as the Executive Vice President and Dean of the Medical School from 1942-1955. He was an internationally famed pharmacologist, prolific writer, and one of the most significant medical historians of the twentieth century. Long before it became fashionable, Dr. Leake advocated for the “free dissemination of accumulating knowledge” and insisted that Texas Reports on Biology and Medicine, the journal he started in 1943, was “to be distributed without charge to every medical library…to which it may be possible to send it.”

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  • 1955

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Leake, Chauncey Depew, 1896-1978. Dr. Chauncey D. Leake and the University of Texas Medical Branch, 1942-1955, book, 1955; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1220912/: accessed May 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Moody Medical Library, UT.

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