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Reflections: Historical Perspectives On Pathology In Houston And Galveston, Ellen B. Koch
Reflections: Historical Perspectives On Pathology In Houston And Galveston, Ellen B. Koch
Texas Medical History E-Books
“This account of pathology in the Houston and Galveston area … examines important themes in the development of pathology in this area, using selected details from the careers of individuals and institutions to illustrate how pathologists, as practitioners, teachers, and researchers, dealt with the challenges they faced in finding and keeping a niche for pathology in the medical world.” - Preface
This book was written to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists. Bibliographic references and other resources are included.
Texas Medical Center --- Its Origins, Houston Chamber Of Commerce
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
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.
The Hospital Study Of The City Of Houston And Harris County, The Texas Medical Center, James A. Hamilton And Associates, Hospital Consultants, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Hospital Study Of The City Of Houston And Harris County, The Texas Medical Center, James A. Hamilton And Associates, Hospital Consultants, Minneapolis, Minnesota
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In 1941 the Texas Legislature appropriated $500,000 to the Board of Regents of the University of Texas to establish a cancer research hospital. The M. D. Anderson Foundation offered to match the appropriation with a grant of an equal sum and to provide a permanent site in Houston. In August, 1942 the Board of Regent of the University and the Trustees of the Foundation signed an agreement to embark on this project.
This institution was to be the first one in the medical center, which was incorporated in October, 1945. The Board of Trustees of the Texas Medical Center commissioned …
Medicine Man In Texas, George Plunkett Red
Medicine Man In Texas, George Plunkett Red
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The author George (Georgia?) Plunkett Red was the wife of Samuel Clark Red (1861-1940). Dr. Red was the son of Texas pioneer physician Dr. George Clark Red. Dr. Samuel Clark Red was “the county physician of Harris County, one of the organizers of the Harris County Medical Society, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and president of the Texas Medical Association.”
Not much is known about the author, but given her husband’s position and family history, it can be surmised that she was interested in history and had access to some of the children of other pioneer medical …
Harris County Medical Society, Woman's Auxiliary Year Book 1926-1927, Harris County Medical Society, Woman's Auxiliary
Harris County Medical Society, Woman's Auxiliary Year Book 1926-1927, Harris County Medical Society, Woman's Auxiliary
Texas Medical History E-Books
Partnering with the Texas Medical Association Alliance "to improve the health of all Texans," the Harris County Medical Society (HCMS) Alliance was organized in 1919 as the HCMS Woman’s Auxiliary. Current membership consists of the spouses of physicians, as well as physicians, in Harris County. http://hcmsa.org/ accessed 11/20/2012
This booklet lists the members of the Auxiliary, officers, programs for September, 1926 – May, 1927, and the organization’s constitution and by-laws.
Booklet is 7 1/8 x 4 ½ inches and contains 18 pages.
1906 Polk's Medical Register And Directory Of North America (Texas Portion Only), R.L. Polk And Co.
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 …
1902 Polk's Medical Register And Directory Of The United States And Canada (Texas Portion Only), R.L. Polk And Co.
1902 Polk's Medical Register And Directory Of The United States And Canada (Texas Portion Only), R.L. Polk And Co.
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List of Physicians and Surgeons arranged by states and provinces, giving post office address with population and location, the School practiced, date and college of graduation, all the existing and extinct medical colleges in the United States and Canada, with locations, officers, number of professors, lecturers, demonstrators, etc., the various medical societies, state prisons, hospitals, sanitariums, dispensaries, asylums and other medical institutions, boards of health, boards of medical examiners, a synopsis of 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, mineral springs, official …
Three Years In A Mad-House: The Story Of My Life At The Asylum, My Escape, And The Strange Adventures Which Followed, E. B. Fleming, Augustin Fleming
Three Years In A Mad-House: The Story Of My Life At The Asylum, My Escape, And The Strange Adventures Which Followed, E. B. Fleming, Augustin Fleming
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Two Obstetrical Heresies, Silas F. Starley
Two Obstetrical Heresies, Silas F. Starley
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Dr. Silas F. Starley deplores what he considered errors generally taught and accepted in the late 19th century in Two Obstetrical Heresies . “The first is the part that membranes containing the amniotic fluid and the foetus play in effecting dilation of the os uteri in the first stage of labor.The second is the supposed necessity for waiting for their rupture and the escape of the waters before applying the forceps, in every case, without exception.”
Silas F. Starley (1823-1887) was born in Alabama and moved to Texas with his family in 1837. He graduated from the University of Louisville …