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Notes taken by Fortuine during his studies at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1912-1916. A wide range of clinical disciplines is covered, although notes on surgery predominate. In addition, there are several folders of notes he took on his medical reading of both German and English-language texts.
Among the many teachers mentioned in the notes are Walter Bastedo, George Brewer, Edwin Cragin, William Darrach, Virgil Gibney, L. Emmett Holt, Arnold Knapp, and Allen O. Whipple.
History and Biography
Stanley Theodore Fortuine was born in Michigan in 1887 to Dr. Herman Andrew Fortuine, a Dutch immigrant who received his medical degree from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1885, and Helen Voorhorst, herself the child of Dutch immigrants. His sister, F. Esther Fortuine, was a 1916 graduate of the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing.
Fortuine received his bachelor’s degree from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, in 1912. He entered the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons later that same year and received his medical degree in 1916.
He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War I and was assigned to research work at Yale. After the war he became a surgeon at Mary McClellan Hospital in Cambridge, N.Y.
Heart disease and severe rheumatoid arthritis forced Fortuine to retire early from the practice of medicine. He died at Ogunquit, Maine, on Nov. 11, 1944.
Organization
| Box | Folder | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Dermatology, 1915: Fordyce, McKee |
| 2 | Genito-Urinary diseases, 1914-1915: Hayden, Kingsley | |
| 3 | Medicine & Therapeutics, 1914-1915: Bastedo, Evans, Williams, et al. | |
| 4 | Neurology, 1915: Hunt, Tilney | |
| 5 | OB/GYN, 1914-1915: Cragin, Ward | |
| 6 | Ophthalmology, 1915: Knapp | |
| 7 | Orthopedic Surgery, 1915: Gibney | |
| 8 | Otolaryngology, n.d.: Coakley | |
| 9 | Pathology, 1913-1914: Lambert, MacCallum | |
| 10 | Pediatrics, 1912-1916: Bartlett, Berg, Holt, Smith | |
| 2 | 1 | Surgery, 1914-1915: Brewer, Poole |
| 2 | Surgery, 1915: Darrach, St. John, Whipple | |
| 3 | Surgery, 1915: Peck | |
| 4 | Cases at Presbyterian Hospital: largely medical, 1914-1915 | |
| 5 | “Notes on Pathology (German) from Aschoff and Jores” | |
| 6 | Notes on reading [heart disease?] | |
| 7-9 | Notes on reading: various subjects | |
| 10 | Printed material: Cases of typhoid fever and cirrhosis of the liver [at Presbyterian Hospital?], 1911-1916 |
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Administrative Information
Gift of Robert Fortuine, M.D., son of Stanley Fortuine, 2009 (accession #2009.05.27).