Description
Remarkable custom-bound volume titled “PAPERS – ROSE – 1931-39,” bringing together the research and teaching world of Mary Swartz Rose (Teachers College, Columbia University) and her husband, clinical chemist Anton R. Rose. This is not a published book but a unique archive of offprints, reports, and dissertations documenting the formative years of modern nutrition and clinical chemistry.
Highlights include (not a complete list):
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Two Columbia University PhD dissertations, both presentation copies:
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Lan-Chen Kung, The Influence of Some Nutrients on Hemoglobin Production and the Iron Content of the Body (1932), inscribed to “Dr. Anton Rose.”
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Esther Hawley Funnell, An Investigation of Vitamin B and Vitamin G Values in Some Seeds Used as Food (1935), inscribed to “Mrs Rose.”
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Multiple key research papers from the Nutrition Laboratory, Teachers College (Mary Swartz Rose, Kung, Funnell, Ella McC. Vahlteich, Grace MacLeod, etc.) on hemoglobin regeneration, iron in whole wheat and bran, bran and the alimentary tract, and protein utilization in the presence of bran or its fiber.
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Important public and professional addresses by Mary Swartz Rose, including “Belief in Magic” (on food fads and quackery), “Our Children and Their Nutrition Needs,” “Nutrition and the Health of the School Child,” and teaching pieces such as “Teaching Nutrition to Boys and Girls.”
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Child-nutrition and school-feeding studies like “The Food Consumption of Nursery School Children,” plus classroom story material (“The Getsick and Keepwell Families”).
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Clinical chemistry offprints by William G. Exton and Anton R. Rose on albumin-globulin ratios in spinal fluid and the “one-hour two-dose dextrose tolerance test.”
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Foundational institutional documents: proceedings of the First Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Nutrition, Mary Swartz Rose’s survey “University Teaching of Nutrition and Dietetics in the United States,” and a League of Nations Health Organization report on the physiological bases of nutrition.
Together these pieces form a coherent, one-of-a-kind snapshot of early 1930s nutrition science, women’s leadership in the field, graduate training at Teachers College, and the development of clinical laboratory methods. Ideal for a historian of science/medicine, an institutional collection, or a serious private researcher.
Physical description and condition
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Custom binding in maroon cloth with gilt spine title “PAPERS – ROSE – 1931-39.”
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Binding solid; light shelf wear and rubbing to cloth, minor bumping at corners and spine ends.
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Internally, offprints and dissertations show typical age-toning to paper, some edge wear and small closed tears to fold-outs, scattered pencil notes and underlining, and occasional creasing from the way some pamphlets were originally folded.
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No pages noted as missing; many pieces retain their original wrappers where issued.
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Overall about Very Good for a working archival volume of this period, but please treat it as a unique compilation rather than a publisher’s book.
Please carefully view all the photos to judge contents and condition for yourself; they form part of the description.
