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.” In 1930, Dr. Leake introduced dyvinyl ether into the practice of anesthesiology and was involved in the development of vioform and carbarsone in the treatment of amoebic dysentery. His work also contributed to the development of tranquilizers. As an administrator, Dr. Leake was instrumental in the development of M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston as well as the Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. The materials in this collection include: correspondence with Dr. Felix Miller, who was involved with the first successful x-ray experiments performed in Texas; correspondence with Dr. Witten Russ, San Antonio surgeon and public health advocate; monthly correspondence to Leake’s friends which included personal and professional updates; and, reports from various UTMB departments in the 1940s.
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![[Letter from Dr. Chauncey D. Leake to Dr. Witten B. Russ, June 28, 1947]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==)
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Dr. Chauncey Depew Leake in The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas Libraries. https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/DCDL/ accessed May 4, 2024.
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