A statement by Dr. Chauncey D. Leake at the request of the U. of Texas Board of Regents explaining the history of studies and practice in radiology at UTMB, the department's shortcomings, and proposals for improving it.
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A statement by Dr. Chauncey D. Leake at the request of the U. of Texas Board of Regents explaining the history of studies and practice in radiology at UTMB, the department's shortcomings, and proposals for improving it.
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Handwritten note, first page, top-left: "Archives."
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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 (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.”
Leake, Chauncey Depew, 1896-1978.Statement on the Status of Radiology at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston,
text,
May 1953;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1220792/:
accessed July 16, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting Moody Medical Library, UT.