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Exhibit 037

Frederick T. Gates, Address on the Tenth Anniversary of the Rockefeller Institute

Exhibit 037 ยท Address

Frederick T. Gates, Address on the Tenth Anniversary of the Rockefeller Institute

Gates describes the Rockefeller Institute as a "theological seminary, presided over by the Rev. Simon Flexner, D.D.," and says scientific medicine is promulgating "new moral laws and new social laws, new definitions of what is right and wrong in our relations with each other."

Source
Frederick T. Gates
Date
1911
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/rockefellermedic00browrich
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Note
Known through E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men (1979), p. 125; wording checked against Brown. Archival locator from Brown's notes (p. 255): Gates collection, Rockefeller Foundation Archives.

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Finding MED-1.7
Reported Frederick Gates justified Rockefeller medical philanthropy in internal memos by worker productivity, control of physicians' fees, and social order.