MANUSCRIPTS COLLECTION 923

Processed by Helen Burkes, May 1996

Correspondence, personal and professional papers, military records, photographs, and other papers documenting primarily the professional activities of Harry D. Morris, a New Orleans orthopedic surgeon. Morris participated actively in professional medical associations and regularly contributed to the professional literature.

PROVENANCE

Mrs. Harry D. Morris donated the papers of her late husband to the Tulane Manuscripts Department in 1980.

SCOPE

The papers primarily span the period from the middle of the 1930s to the late 1970s, with the bulk of the documents concerning Dr. Morris' involvement with professional medical associations. These include presentations and speeches at professional meetings, files regarding his elected offices, board memberships, committee appointments, and Morris' professional publications. A substantial portion of the collection preserves copies of his professional publications and personal and professional photographs, many of which record medical conditions. A smaller portion documents his experiences in the military from 1942-1947.

CITATION - please cite as follows:

Harry D. Morris, M.D., papers, Manuscripts Collection 923, Manuscripts Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Harry Dunlap Morris was born December 15, 1906, in El Dorado, Oklahoma. He received his undergraduate degree at Oregon State College in 1926 followed by post graduate work at the University of Chicago. He received his medical degree from St. Louis University in 1933. Morris practiced medicine in St. Louis (1934-1936) and Boston (1936-1937) before becoming a clinical assistant at Washington University in St. Louis (1937-39).

In 1939 he joined the faculty of the Tulane University Medical School as an instructor in Orthopedic Surgery. He rose to full professor by 1960 and was named Emeritus Professor of Orthopedics in 1977.

He also became senior orthopedic surgeon at several area hospitals but was most known for his work with the Ochsner Clinic. From 1957 to 1967 Morris was head of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and during that same period was Chief, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital. In 1964 he was named chief of the Oschner Clinic's Medical Staff.

From 1942 to 1947 Morris served on active duty in the United States Army. From 1943 to 1946 he was Chief of the Amputation Center at McCloskey General Hospital and from 1946 to 1947 was Chief, Orthopedic Service, at Percy Jones General Hospital. He received the Army Commendation Medal in 1946. He remained in the reserves through 1967, retiring at the rank of Colonel.

Morris also contributed to the growth and development of his profession. He served as Vice-President of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons from 1965 to 1967, was a member of the American Board of Orthopedic Surgeons from 1959 to 1965, served as a Governor of the American College of Surgeons from 1962 to 1965 and was President of the Louisiana Orthopedic Association in 1966.

INVENTORY

BOX 1

Folder

1. biographical
2. correspondence 1936 - 1939
3. correspondence 1943 - 1946
4. army correspondence 1942 - 1943
5. amputation 1944
6. army correspondence 1945 - 1952
7. medical cases 1947 - 1951
8. American Orthopedic Association 1953
9. correspondence 1955
10. fracture commission 1955 - 1956
11. medical cases 1955 - 1967
12. Ochsner clinic partnership agreement 1957
13. statistics, number of patients 1957 - 1960
14. patient diagnosis 1957 - 1964
15. instructional course 1958
16. British Express Fellows 1958

BOX 2

Folder

1. Morris speech at Arkansas Orthopedic Society 1960
2. membership data, 20^th century Orthopedic association 1960
3. patient treatment, fractures 1960
4. postgraduate schools of medicine, "fractures" 1961
5. Louisiana Orthopedic Association meeting 1961
6. army corps. retention in active states 1962
7. clinical orthopedic meeting 1962
8. Louisiana Orthopedic Association 1963
9. orthopedic examinations 1963
10. correspondence 1963
11. legal problems 1964
12. regional meetings 1964
13. American Orthopedic Surgeons 1964

BOX 3

Folder

1. contract for publication of "fractures" 1965
2. American Orthopedic Association Exchange Fellowship 1965
3. Louisiana Orthopedic Association annual meeting 1965 (Oct)
4. A.A.O.S. regional meeting 1965 (May)
5. A.A.O.S. executive meeting 1965 (Sept)
6. American Board of Orthopedic Surgery Examiners Board 1965
7. correspondence 1965 - 1966
8. A.A.O.S. regional meeting 1966 (Jan)
9. Louisiana Orthopedic Assoc. 1966 (Nov)
10. American Board of Orthopedic. Surgery 1966
11. amputation for congenital defects 1966
12. retirement from army 1966
13. American Orthopedic. Assoc. Exchange Fellowship 1966 - 1967
14. Clinical Orthopedic Society 1967 - 1968

BOX 4

Folder

1. American Society for Surgery of the Hand 1968 (Jan)
2. report of orthopedics task force 1968
3. Commission of National Health Programs (orthopedic) 1968
4. correspondence 1969
5. post - operative management of total hip reconstruction 1969
6. American College of Surgery; credentials 1970
7. resume of Blair procedure 1970
8. Interstate post grad. medical assoc. 1971 (Nov)
9. fusion for fracture of talus 1971
10. case slides 1971
11. N.F.L. and neutral orthopedic surgeons 1971
12. American College of Surgeons; credentials 1971
13. malpractice and legal defense 1971 - 1972
14. 20^th century orthopedic assoc. 1972
15. American Orthopedic Foot Soc. 1973 (Feb)
16. correspondence 1973
17. medical suit 1973
18. Ochsner Hospital operative sheet 1973
19. roster of class after 40^th anniversary

BOX 5

Folder

1. Donald Bascle vs. Ochsner Med. Foundation 1974
2. cases, operative sheet 1974
3. 20^th century assoc. correspondence 1974 - 1975
4. International Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology 1975
5. Ankle fusion cases 1975
6. legal cases 1975
7. Ochsner statistical report 1975 - 1976
8. American Orthopedic. Foot Society 1975
9. American Orthopedic Foot Society 1976
10. cases, operative sheet 1976
11. Children's Hospital (Mass. Gen.) 1976 (Feb)
12. American Orthopedic. Foot Society 1977
13. La. committee of American College of Surgeons 1977
14. medical review panel 1977
15. case (Ed. C. Patterson) 1977
16. "Where Ankle Fusion Stands Today" 1977
17. correspondence and cases 1977
18. Orthopedic fee schedule 1977 Ochsner Med. Foundation
19. correspondence 1978
20. condolences at death of Harry D. Morris 1978
21. tribute to Mary Sultz Sherman n.d.

BOX 6: HARRY D. MORRIS PUBLISHED PAPERS

Folder 1.

"Trochanteric Fractures" 1940

"Conservation of Short Amputation Stumps by Tendon Section" 1946

"Tendon and Mortise Grafts for Bridging Metacarpal Defects Due to Gunshot Wounds" 1946 "Amputations" 1948

Folder 2.

"Amputations" 1950

"Treatment of Infantile Bowlegs and Knock Knees" 1951

"Severe Injuries of the Knee Joint; Diagnosis and Treatment" 1951

"Deformities and Anomalies" 1952?

"Use of Intramedullary Fixation and Cancellons Grafts in Established Non-Union of the Femoral Shaft" 1953

"Nailing and Cancellous Bone" 1954?

"Treatment of Osteoarthritis of the Hip Joint" 1955

"Lumbosacral Fusion" 1958

"Orthopedic Surgery - Yesterday and Today" n.d.

Folder 3.

"Arthrodesis of the Foot" 1960

"Evaluation of Intramedullary Fixation of the Tibia with the Lottes Nail" 1960

"Experience with the Blair Procedure for Fracture - Dislocation of the Body of the Talus" 1963

"Fractures and Dislocation of the Pelvis" 1968

"Anthrodesis of the Hip" 1968

Folder 4.

"The Modified Blair Fusion for Fractures of the Talus" 1971

"Aseptic Necrosis of the Talus Following Injury" 1973 and 1974

"Ankle Arthrodesis" 1975

BOX 7: PHOTOGRAPHS AND CERTIFICATES AND DIPLOMAS

photographs of military groups

photographs of medical groups

certificates and diplomas of Harry D. Morris 1933 - 1973

BOX 8: 5 PLAQUES OF HARRY MORRIS

medical slides

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