Exhibit 038

Frederick T. Gates, "Philanthropy and Civilization"

Exhibit 038 · Memorandum

Frederick T. Gates, "Philanthropy and Civilization"

Gates writes that disease "is the main source of almost all other human ills, poverty, crime, ignorance, vice, inefficiency, hereditary taint, and many other evils."

Source: Frederick T. Gates
Date: 1923
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://archive.org/details/rockefellermedic00browrich
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Known through E. Richard Brown, Rockefeller Medicine Men (1979), pp. 128–129; wording checked against Brown (the scan's text layer displaces one word across a line break). Archival locator from Brown's note 65 (p. 256): Gates collection, Rockefeller Foundation Archives.

Cited by

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