Scope and Contents This collection contains material related to the death of Mary McNichols, a Saint Louis University student who died due to a laboratory accident in 1939.Mary McNichols was born in 1918 in St. Louis to parents Henry and May. She enrolled as a student at Saint Louis University in 1935 and was expected to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Laboratory Technology in July 1939. In February 1939, during her work as a student technician at Firmin Desloge Hospital, she was injured...