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Collection YouHH : Hugh Hampton Young Collection

Description

Key

104262

Reference Code Element

YouHH

Dates

1870-1945, inclusive

Extent

35 linear feet

Creator

Personal name, Young, Hugh H., 1870-1945

Administrative/Biographical History

Hugh Hampton Young was born in San Antonio, Texas. He received his A.B. and M.A. in 1893 and an M.D. in 1894 from the University of Virginia. Young came to Baltimore in 1895 to undertake postgraduate work at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 1898, Young became head of genitourinary surgery at Johns Hopkins. He oversaw the development of the Brady Urological Institute and served as its director from its founding in 1915 until his retirement in 1942. He invented numerous operating instruments such as the Young punch, an instrument used to excise the prostate gland, and devised several surgical procedures for treating genito-urinary diseases. He performed the first perineal prostatectomy in 1902 and the first radical operation on a cancerous prostate gland in 1904. Young wrote several books, including Young's Practice of Urology and A Surgeon's Autobiography, established the Journal of Urology, and was its editor until his death.

Chronology

Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1898-1942

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1870-1945

Scope and Content

The Hugh Hampton Young Collection spans his entire life. Series include professional and personal correspondence, patient materials, publications, diaries, patent documents, photographs, motion picture films, diaries and date books, and ephemera. Professional correspondence includes exchanges of letters with colleagues, patients, and professional organizations. Young's varied personal interests, his civic pursuits, and his accomplishments are documented in his personal correspondence, which includes exchanges with prominent national and international figures. The family correspondence constitutes over 200 letters exchanged between Young and his wife Bessy Colston, both before and during their marriage. There are substantial materials related to his military service with the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I. This includes his work developing and implementing the Venereal Disease Program in England and France. The patient materials consist of case histories (usually assembled for a research project or article), correspondence with or about patients, patient logs from the Division of Urology, and charts for patients from the Brady Urological Institute. Publications include addresses and manuscripts presented at professional meetings, research material for manuscripts and articles, reprints and drafts of chapters for medical textbooks, and several versions of the manuscript for his autobiography, Hugh Young: A Surgeon's Autobiography, personally edited by his friend and publisher, Alfred Harcourt. Patent documents, with associated drawings, are included for a soap dispenser and for improvements to seaplane landing gear. Photographic materials in the Young papers include prints, negatives, and film, all of which document his medical career and span the wide range of Young's civic activities and personal interests. The ephemera collection includes programs, pamphlets, military documents, postcards, newspaper clippings, and a bookplate collection.

Subjects - Name

Corporate name, James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute

Subjects

Topic, Urology

Topic, World War, 1914-1918

Related Archival Material

Records of the Brady Urological Institute (BUI)

Language

English

Notes

Update on the Brady Urological Institute:
Young was succeeded as director of the Brady Urological Institute by Dr. William Wallace Scott in 1946. Dr. Patrick C. Walsh succeeded Scott in 1974. In 1972, with the reorganization of the Department of Surgery, the Division of Urology was made the Department of Urology.
In the 1970s, the need for a new building to house the Brady Institute became clear. It was ultimately decided to move the Brady Institute into the Marburg building, one of the original buildings still remaining on the East Baltimore campus. The new quarters had the added advantage of situating the Department of Urology closer to the Division of Renal Medicine, enabling cooperation between theses two related specialties. The Marburg building was renovated, and the new Brady Urological Institute was dedicated on September 29, 1982. Research, teaching and patient care in urology continue there today.

Access and Use

Conditions Governing Access Element

Conditions and restrictions on access exist for certain confidential records such as patient files.

Access Restrictions

Contains some restricted material

Administration

Date(s) of Descriptions

1991

Processing Information

The Hugh Hampton Young Collection was arranged and described under the direction of Lisa A. Mix with assistance of Agota Gold and Marjorie Winslow Kehoe in 1991. Dr. Patrick Walsh, Director of Urology at Johns Hopkins, recognizing the research value of the Young Papers, arranged for the transfer of the Young papers to the Chesney Medical Archives. He generously contributed his time, professional expertise and funding to the processing of the papers. Walsh, and the Johns Hopkins Department of Urology funded the production of an overview guide to the collection, The Legacy of Hugh Hampton Young: Pioneer in Urology (1991) by Marjorie Winslow Kehoe, Nancy McCall and Lisa A. Mix. Numerous individuals also assisted in this project. Dr. Walsh's sons Christopher and Alexander helped locate, pack and move the collection from the basement of the Brady Urological Institute to the Chesney Medical Archives. Maryrose Gans, Administrator for the Department of Urology, helped coordinate administrative aspects of the project. Susanne Ridenour prepared a preliminary inventory of the collection. Mary Todd Glazer of Northeast Document Conservation Center conducted a conservation assessment of the Young papers and advised on the long term preservation of the collection. Drs. William Wallace Scott, A. McGehee Harvey, Hugh Y. Rienhoff, and James Seamans served as resources as the Chesney Medical Archives staff processed and described the collection. Additional members of the Chesney Medical Archives staff who participated in this project include Constantinos Dukissis, Frances Dukissis, and Mary Garofalo. In 2005, Phoebe Evans Letocha oversaw the work of ArchProteus to convert the finding aid to the Chesney Medical Archives online catalog system.

Accession

2005-052

2003-161

1997-010

1995-037

1993-027

1990-138

1982-036

Custodial History

Hugh Hampton Young willed his papers to the Brady Urological Institute of Johns Hopkins. Upon Dr. Young's death in 1945, his papers were stored in the basement of the Brady building. Over the ensuing years the papers gradually fell into disarray as a result of a flood and several shifts of location. In the early 1980s, Alexander and Christopher Walsh (sons of Dr. Patrick Walsh, Director of Urology) worked to locate and gather together the scattered Young papers. In July 1982, Dr. Patrick Walsh authorized the transfer of the Hugh Hampton Young papers to the Medical Archives.

Composed Of

Found 24 record(s)

Reference Code and Titlesort by Reference Code and Title ascending	Key (Collection)sort by Key (Collection) ascending	Dates	Record Levelsort by Record Level ascending	Hierarchysort by Hierarchy ascending
1- General Correspondence	125000		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
2- Family Correspondence	126852		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
3- Johns Hopkins Institutional Records	126978		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
4- Young's Research and Patient Case Files	113177	1887-1945	Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
5- Correspondence/Notes regarding Instruments, Equipment, and Modes of Treatment	129421		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
6- Professional Associations	129547		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
7- Government Medical Boards and Commissions	129743		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
8- Journal of Urology	129753		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
9- Medical and Scientific Manuscripts by Hugh Hampton Young	129778		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
10- Medical and Scientific Manuscripts by others	130316		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
11- Biographical Materials	130374		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
12- Civic and Cultural Activities	130748		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
13- World War I	131096		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
14- World War II	131226		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
15- Visual Materials	131231		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
16- Bound Family Documents, Diaries, Albums/Scrapbooks	131544		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
17- Legal Size Documents	131556		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
18- Newspaper Clippings	131576		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
19- OVERSIZED BOXES (4) Papers/Photos	131627		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
20- Reprints, articles and reviews	131686		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
21- Mailing Lists	131781		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
22- Books and Journals Collected by Young	131797		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
23- Water Damaged Materials	131821		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection
24- Artifacts and Material Culture	131831		Series	CollectionYouHH- Hugh Hampton Young Collection

Related Artifacts

Found 9 record(s)

Available Actions	Artifact Numbersort by Artifact Number ascending	Titlesort by Title ascending
	977A	Prostatic Retractor
	6252A	Prostatic Retractor
	6254A	Prostatic Retractor
	6255A	Prostatic Retractor
	6256A	Unidentified Instrument
	6257A	Curette
	6260A	Prostatic Retractor
	6261A	Cystoscope
	6264A	Brock Infundibular Punch

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