Box 8

Primarily consists of reports on development and provision of medical care in Barpali, Orissa, India. The Friends Medical Society does not appear to have been directly involved, but was kept up to date on the progress of the project

Correspondence between Dr. J. Huston Westover (Executive Secretary of the Friends Medical Society) and Myron C. Pilbrow (Director of the Material Aids Program of the American Friends Service Committee) re: possible projects and the bill for sending medical texts to Nigeria

Includes a statement from the Friends Medical Society on the fear of overpopulation and need for birth control and numerous reports and pamphlets on the subject of population control from Planned Parenthood and other organizations

Two copies of the statement on birth control made by the Friends Medical Society

This folder includes correspondence between members of the Friends Medical Society, especially with the executive secretary Dr. J. Huston Westover, and other organizations and individuals on the subject of possible work for individual practitioners and larger scale projects of the Society.

Includes letters re: opportunities for doctors and a report from February 1, 1955 of the American Friends Service Committee titled "Agencies Approved for the Employment of Drafted COs" which described alternative service opportunities for conscientous objectors

Correspondence on the subject of medical employment opportunities in the Public Health Service, in public health research at the Department of Health in New York State, and in the Bureau of Prisons

Primarily consists of public notices and advertisements for the Friends Medical Society in Quaker publications

Documents, newsletters, reports, and pamphlets associated with the Quaker Medical Society and the Medical Association for the Prevention of War

Correspondence, documents, and pamphlets related to an interest expressed by the Friends Medical Society in developing a medical teaching mission in some "undeveloped" region of the world.