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2023 Graduates Project Abstracts By Cizik School Of Nursing At Uthealth Houston, Dnp Program Cizik School Of Nursing At Uthealth Houston

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2021 Graduates Project Abstracts By Cizik School Of Nursing At Uthealth Houston, Dnp Program Cizik School Of Nursing At Uthealth Houston

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

The Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth proudly presents the DNP Project abstracts for the 2021 Class of DNP Graduates.

2020 Graduates Project Abstracts By Cizik School Of Nursing At Uthealth, Dnp Program

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

The Cizik School of Nursing at UTHealth proudly presents the DNP Project abstracts for the 2020 Class of DNP Graduates.

2018 Dnp Graduate Project Abstracts, Uthealth Cizik School Of Nursing

Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects

The UTHealth Cizik School of Nursing proudly presents the DNP Project abstracts for the 2018 Class of DNP Graduates.

Reflections: Historical Perspectives On Pathology In Houston And Galveston, Ellen B. Koch

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“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 50^th anniversary of Houston Society of Clinical Pathologists. Bibliographic references and other resources are included.

The History Of Pathology In Texas, Marilyn Miller Baker

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The History of Pathology in Texas is the study of the changes of disease in Texas from the frontier days to the 1990s. Marilyn Miller Baker wrote the book for the Texas Society of Pathologists. The book was published in 1996 with a forward by Vernie A. Stembridge, MD, the Ashbel Smith Professor and Chairman Emeritus of Pathology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. The book covers the story of pathology from the "performance of crude autopsies" on the frontier through the emergence of bacteriology and immunology and beyond.

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 …

Reminiscences Of A Male Midwife, Herman W. Johnson

Texas Medical History E-Books

Herman Walter Johnson was born in Andover, Vermont, August 2, 1883 and died November 14, 1958. He graduated from the University of Buffalo Medical School, New York in 1905. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine.

In his autobiography Dr. Johnson discussed his life, the progress of obstetrics and gynecology and his tenure at Baylor College of Medicine.

Further references to Dr. Johnson can be found in the Texas State Journal of Medicine, 55: 73, Jan. 1959 and Bulletin of the Harris County Medical Society July, 1969, p. 10.

1952-1954, William Moloney

William C. Moloney, M.D. Papers

Dr. Moloney kept a personal journal, with photographs, for much of his two years with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan. Along with other scientists, he studied the biological and medical effects of ionized radiation on the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. In January of 1986, Dr. Moloney donated his journal, correspondence and diary pages to the Harris County Medical Archive, whose collections were later incorporated into the Texas Medical Center Library. Dr. Moloney's journal is in relatively good shape containing a mix of handwritten notes and comments, news-clippings, photos, and ephemera. The journal is an …

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

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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

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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

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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.

Illustrated Catalogue Of Standard Surgical Instruments And Allied Lines, A. P. Cary

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• Section "A": Dissecting and Post-Mortem Instruments Diagnostic Instruments and Apparatus Microscopes and Microscopic Accessories Laboratory Apparatus and Glass Ware Apparatus for Blood and Urine Analysis Apparatus for Phlebotomy, Cupping and Leeching Apparatus for Infusion and Transfusion Syringes for Aspiration and Injection Osteological Preparations
• Section "B": Anaesthetic, General Operating, Osteotomy, Trepanning, Bullet, Pocket Case, Cautery, Ligatures, Sutures, Dressings, Etc.
• Section "B" continued
• Section "C": Eye, Ear, Nasal, Dermal, Oral, Tonsil, Tracheal, Laryngeal,Esophageal, Stomach, Intestinal, Gall Bladder
• Section "C": continued
• Section "D": Rectal, Phimosis, Prostatic, Vesical, Urethral, Ureteral, Instruments
• Section "E": Gynecic, Hysterectomy, Obstetrical, Instrument Satchels, Medicine Cases
• Section "F": Electric Cautery …

William Osler: Original Papers 1907-1919, William Osler Sir

Works of Sir William Osler

Part 1: 1907-1908

• The Royal Medical Society of Edinburg, 1907
• On the Library of a Medical School, 1907
• On Telangiectasis Circumscripta Universalis, 1907
• A Clinical Lecture on Abdominal Tumours Associated with Disease of the Testicle, 1907
• A Clinical Lecture on Erythraemia, 1908
• Vienna after Thirty-Four Years, 1908
• Endocardites Infectieuses Chroniques, 1908

Part 2: 1909

• Chronic Infectious Endocarditis, 1909
• What the Public Can Do in the Fight Against Tuberculosis, 1909
• Annual Oration on the Occasion of the Opening of the New Building of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, May 13, 1909
• The Medical Library in Post-Graduate …

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.

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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 …

William Osler: Original Papers 1898-1906, William Osler Sir

Works of Sir William Osler

Part 1: 1898-1899

• On Chronic Symmetrical Enlargement of the Salivary and Lachrymal Glands, 1898
• Leprosy in the United States, with the Report of a Case, 1898
• An Acute Myxaedematous Condition, with Tachycardia, Glycosuria, Melaena, Mania and Death, 1898
• On some of the Intestinal Features of Typhoid Fever, 1898
• Cerebro-Spinal Fever, 1898
• The Arthritis of Cerebro-Spinal Fever, 1898
• In Memoriam, William Pepper, 1899
• After Twenty-Five Years, 1899
• The Diagnosis of Typhoid Fever, 1899
• Interstitial Processes in the Central Nervous System, 1899

Part 2: 1900

• The Home Treatment of Consumption, 1900
• On Splenic Anaemia, 1900
• The Chronic Intermittent Fever of Endocarditis, 1900 …

Cary's Illustrated And Priced Catalogue: Surgical Instruments, Physicians, Hospital Supplies, And Furnishings, Druggist Sundries, Etc., A. P. Cary

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Second Edition.

• Pp.5-61 General Surgical Necessities, Gauze, Antiseptic Sundries, Surgical Sundries, Rubber Bandages, Catheters, Bougies, Splints, Tents, Emergency Bags, Surgeon's Needles, Operating Instruments, Amputating, Forceps, Aspiration, Cases, Catheters and Directors, Pocket Case Instruments, Dissecting and Post-Mortem
• Pp.62-118 General Operating - Osteotomy, Mastoid, Trephining, Eye Instruments, Aural, Nasal, Mouth and Throat, Tooth Forceps, Laryngoscopic Sets, Hydraulic Air Compressor, Variocele, Genito Urinary
• Pp. 119-167 Genito Urinary-Lithotrity, Alimentary, Anal and Rectal, Gynaecological, Pessaries, Microscopes, Syringes
• Pp.168-205 Chemical Apparatus and Glassware, Physician's Cabinets, Office Furniture, Operating Chairs and Tables, Hospital Beds, Cautery, Electrolytic, Batteries
• Pp.206-246 Cases, Varicose, Braces, Abdominal Supporters, Trusses, Invalid Chairs and …

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

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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 …

William Osler: Original Papers 1881-1897, William Osler Sir

Works of Sir William Osler

Part 1: 1881-1888

• On Some Points in the Etiology and Pathology of Ulcerative Endocarditis, 1881
• On Certain Parasites in the Blood of the Frog, 1883
• The Third Corpuscle of the Blood, 1883
• On the Use of Arsenic in Certain Forms of Anaemia, 1886
• Antifebrin, 1887
• Case of Arterio-Venous Aneurism of the Axillary Artery and Vein of Fourteen Year's Duration, 1887
• Typhilitis and Appendicitis, 1888

Part 2: 1889-1892

• Annual Address - License to Practice 1889 Case of Syphiloma of the Cord of the Cauda Equina-Death From Diffuse Central Myelitis, 1889
• On a Case of Simple Idiopathic Muscular Atrophy, Involving the Face …

Anatomia In Qua Tota Humani Corporis Fabrica... Amstelodami, Ioannes Ianssonius, 1617, Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564, Thomas Geminus D. 1562

Anatomical Texts

A paper affixed to the rear free endpaper of the item states that is edition contains “fine reproductions of the Gemini plates.”

“Thomas Geminus was a a pseudonym for Thomas Lambrit, an engraver and printer…shown as active from about 1540; he died in May 1562.” http://www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.uk/geminus.html accessed 11/20/2012. Geminus (Lambrit) printed Compendiosa totius anatomiae delineation aere exarata in 1545 copied from Vesalius’ 1543, De humani corporis fabrica . (Wellcome Library catalog, accessed 11/20/2012.)

This book is a 1617 reproduction of the engraved copperplates which Lambrit himself copied from the original woodblock prints of the Vesalius’ book.

Because the illustrations were …