Name/Title
Century of medicine in Jacksonville and Duval County, A.Entry/Object ID
2015.1.1537Description
xii, 201 pages " illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
Century of medicine in Jacksonville and Duval County by Webster Merritt.
1877 "...our sewerage system is very imperfect and inadequate...The most or all the buildings on the river side of Bay Street need immediate attention. The whole line of Hogan's Creek is fast becoming a hot bed of disease."
Inscribed by the author.
Contents: Earliest years -- Dr. A. S. Baldwin -- Jacksonville in the 1840's -- First epidemics in Jacksonville -- 1854-A year of hardship -- Yellow fever epidemic of 1857 -- Jacksonville physicians of the 1850's -- War Between the States -- Post-war period -- Wretchedness -- growth -- progress -- Duval County and St. Luke's Hospitals -- Jacksonville physicians of the 1870's -- Yellow fever in Fernandina -- Yellow fever in Jacksonville in 1877 -- Sanitation problems -- Water works and sewer system -- Smallpox epidemic of 1883 -- Florida University Medical School -- Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1888 -- Founding of the State Board of Health.
Selected illustrations: Pictorial map of Jacksonville in 1847 -- Dr. James Hall's gravestone -- Dr. A. S. Baldwin -- Corner of Bay and Ocean Streets in 1842 -- Dr. R. P. David -- D. J. D. Mitchell -- Dr. E. T. Sabal -- Dr. Baldwin's home and office -- Duval County Hospital in 1915 -- St. Luke's Hospital in 1888 -- Dr. Columbus Drew -- Home of Dr. Columbus Drew in 1852, Monroe Street at Laura -- Dr. A. W. Knight -- Jacksonville Water Works in 1880 -- Dr. Henry Robinson -- Brooklyn Drug Store owned by Dr. Webster on Commercial Street was smallpox vaccinating depot in 1883 -- Charles H. Jones, editor of the Florida Times Union, 1883 -- Sub-Tropical Exposition -- Grand Union Hotel -- Sand Hills Hospital -- Camp Perry -- Fumigating the Jacksonville mail at Waycross, Georgia -- Camp Caroline -- Camp Mitchell -- Return of yellow fever refugees to Jacksonville on the steamer Iroquois -- Dr. J. Y. PorterCollection
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Medicine -- Florida -- Duval County -- History -- 19th century., Medicine -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- History -- 20th century., Yellow fever -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Smallpox -- Florida -- Jacksonville., Physicians -- Florida -- Duval County -- Biography., Baldwin, A. S. (Abel Seymour), 1811?-1898.Publication Details
Author
Merritt, WebsterPublisher
University of Florida PressPlace Published
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Gainesville, FLCall No.
R 199 .D8 M4