Verne S. Caviness Papers
1937-1941
The Country Doctor Museum Manuscript Collection, CD 01.13- Creator(s)
- Caviness, Verne S.
- Physical description
- 0.06 Cubic Feet
- Preferred Citation
- Verne S. Caviness Papers (CD 01.13), The Country Doctor Museum, at The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
- Repository
- Laupus Library History Collections
- Access
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Papers of physician Verne S. Caviness consisting of a typescript, carbon copies of typescripts, illustrations for journal articles, and a typed letter; all related to Dr. Caviness' publication of two journal articles.
Biographical/historical information
Verne Strudwick Caviness was born 1895 February 9 in Hillsborough, North Carolina, to Doctor Newby and Laura (Cummings) Caviness. He attended the University of North Carolina Medical School, and earned his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1921. In 1923, he started his practice in Raleigh, specializing in cardiovascular diseases. Over his career, Caviness served as Chief of General Medicine at St. Agnes Hospital, Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine at Rex Hospital, consulting physician for the Methodist Orphanage (1923- 1970s), and medical director of the Occidental Life Insurance Company (1926-1952). In 1933, he married Alice Hill Webb (1904-1989). Caviness was one of the first researchers to work with insulin and helped find proper doses to make the new drug a workable treatment for diabetes. He died 1996 August 22 in Raleigh, N.C.
Scope and arrangement
Papers of physician Verne S. Caviness consisting of a typescript, carbon copies of typescripts, illustrations for journal articles and a typed letter; all related to Dr. Caviness' publication of two journal articles. The first article is entitled "Puncture wound of the left auricle, with tamponade and recovery" by Verne S. Caviness and Henry G. Turner. American Heart Journal. Volume 25, Issue 5, May 1943, pages 693-699. The second article is titled "The correlation between blood pressure and the concentration of sulfocyanates in the blood" by Verne S. Caviness, Thomas A. Bell, and G. Howard Satterfield. North Carolina Medical Journal. Volume 2, November 1941, pages 585-592.
Administrative information
Custodial History
January 1997: papers including typescripts, illustrations for journal articles, and letter. Presumably donated by Alice Caviness Hardy.
Source of acquisition
Gift presumably of Alice Caviness Hardy of Raleigh, North Carolina.
Processing information
Processed by Janet Heath and Melissa Nasea, 2015
Copyright notice
Literary rights to specific documents are retained by the authors or their descendants in accordance with U.S. copyright law.
Metadata Rights Declaration
Language of material
English
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