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The Hospital Study Of The City Of Houston And Harris County, The Texas Medical Center, James A. Hamilton And Associates, Hospital Consultants, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Texas Medical History E-Books

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

Texas Medical History E-Books

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

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.

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

Texas Medical History E-Books

• 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 …

Rb005: Sir W. 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 …

Gazetteer Of Texas Physicians: W, X, Y, Z, Texas Medical Center Library

Gazetteer of Deceased TX Physicians: 19th & 20th Century

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Gazetteer of Deceased TX Physicians: 19th & 20th Century

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Gazetteer of Deceased TX Physicians: 19th & 20th Century

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Gazetteer of Deceased TX Physicians: 19th & 20th Century

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Gazetteer of Deceased TX Physicians: 19th & 20th Century

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Gazetteer Of Texas Physicians: S, Texas Medical Center Library

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Gazetteer of Deceased TX Physicians: 19th & 20th Century

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1902 Polk's Medical Register And Directory Of The United States And Canada (Texas Portion Only), R.L. Polk And Co.

Texas Medical History E-Books

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 …

Rb005: Sir W. 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 …

Ms021: Sworn Oath Affirming No Exposure To Yellow Fever In The Past 20 Days, George D. Neal

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Sworn oath signed by George Neal of Navasota City, TX, attesting he had not been in an infected district or community with yellow fever in the past 20 days. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

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

Texas Medical History E-Books

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 …

Ms021: The Climate Of Texas In Relations To The Distribution Of Diseases And The Effects Of Climate And Weather Changes In Causing Diseases And Deaths, Issac Monroe Cline

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Book, "The Climate of Texas in Relations to the Distribution of Diseases and the Effects of Climate and Weather Changes in Causing Diseases and Deaths", by Dr. Isaac Cline, published by Strickland Printing Company. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

Ms021: Yellow Fever Quarantine Proclamation, James S. Hogg

John P. McGovern, MD Collection

Quarantine Proclamation issued by the Governor of Texas, J.S. Hogg, declaring a quarantine against the City of Brunswick, Georgia, due to yellow fever epidemic. Signed and sealed by J.S. Hogg. See more at John P. McGovern, MD Collection of Texas Historical Medical Documents and its finding aid.

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

Texas Medical History E-Books

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Two Obstetrical Heresies, Silas F. Starley

Texas Medical History E-Books

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 …