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Texas Medical Center --- Its Origins, Houston Chamber Of Commerce Jan 1971

Texas Medical Center --- Its Origins, Houston Chamber Of Commerce

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This document details the people and institutions who were instrumental in the establishment and development of the Texas Medical Center (TMC). Biographical information about the founders, role the M. D. Anderson Foundation, and opening of the main institutions in the early 1950s is detailed. A copy of a speech given in 1958 by W. B. Bates, one of the trustees of the M. D. Anderson Foundation, on the history and development of the TMC is significant because he was one of the founders of the TMC.

This document was commissioned by the Houston Chamber of Commerce in 1971 as the …


A History Of Organized Medicine In Harris County, Texas, Harris County Medical Society, Historical Committee Jan 1948

A History Of Organized Medicine In Harris County, Texas, Harris County Medical Society, Historical Committee

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The item was written by the Historical Committee of the Harris County Medical Society and signed on October 28, 1948.

A brief history of medicine in Texas is given before the focus shifts to the Harris County and Houston area. Information on the early years is taken from various sources such as Pat Ireland Nixon’s The Medical Story of Early Texas and the writings of George Plunkett (Mrs. S. C.) Red. Significant information comes from the Minutes of the Harris County Medical Society.


1906 Polk's Medical Register And Directory Of North America (Texas Portion Only), R.L. Polk And Co. Jan 1906

1906 Polk's Medical Register And Directory Of North America (Texas Portion Only), R.L. Polk And Co.

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List of Physicians and Surgeons arranged by location, giving post office address with population and location, the School practiced, date and college of graduation, all the existing and extinct medical colleges in North America, with locations, officers, number of professors, lecturers, demonstrators, etc., the various medical societies, penal, reformatory and charitable state institutions, hospitals, sanitariums, dispensaries, asylums and other medical institutions, boards of health, boards of medical examiners, health officers at principal points, the laws of registration and other laws relating to the profession, medical journals with names of editors, frequency of publication and subscription rates, medical libraries, a therapeutic …