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Hundredth birthday, Duval County Medical Society, 1853-1953Entry/Object ID
Library.1247Description
127 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 29 cm.
Hundredth birthday, Duval County Medical Society, 1853-1953 by Webster Merritt and Joseph Lowenthal.
100th birthday, Duval County Medical Society, 1853-1953.
Duval County Medical Society 1853-1953 Hundredth Birthday.
Presented note and signed & dated by Dr. Cranford.
On the evening of May 25, 1853, physicians of Jacksonville met in the office of William J. L'Engle, organized an association and named it the Duval County Medical Society" "The Duval County Medical Society, first and only medical society in Florida for two decades, thus was born ..."
Selected contents: Dr. John S. Murdoch, 1st President -- Priest/physician of Timucuan people -- Dr. Hall, 1st physician in Jax -- First pharmacist (Dr. Robertson -- 1840's,1850s, 1860s -- Yellow fever epidemic of 1888 -- Brigadier General William Mitchell (founder of Air Force; visited grandmother, Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, Villa Alexandria, stationed at Camp Cuba Libre -- Turn of the century (1st automobile to arrive was Charles A. Clark in 1899; Fire of 1901) Skylines & skyscrapers early 20th century ( skyline 1904, skyline 1912, skyline 1918 -- Camp Johnston in WWI) -- Ben Burbridge addressed Medical Society Jan. 1929 about capturing gorillas in Belgian Congo -- Medical frauds/quacks (Dr. Urbuteit & his Sinuothermic machine) -- Permanent home for Medical Society --Past presidents with photos often of the Duval County Medical Society 1853-1953 -- 1953 Membership roster of Society -- Fifty Years of Progress Association (commemorate the 50th anniversary of Great Fire,
Selected photos/maps/drawings: Map of Jacksonville about 1859 -- Page from the account book of Dr. Murdoch, 1857 -- Dr. Hall's tombstone -- Map of Jacksonville, 1847 -- Copy of Florida Republican, Extra dated April 6, 1854 on disastrous fire -- Mayport Mills -- Oxford Hotel & Pharmacy -- Florida Medical & Surgical Journal -- Tremont House -- Fast mail 1886 -- Home of Dr. Mitchell with Century plant -- Camp Perry -- Letter from Mr. Hawley to Dr. Merritt regarding article "Old Country Doctor" during the 1870s & 1880s -- General Fitzhugh at Camp Cuba Libre -- Masonic Temple,1908 -- Court House & Armory, 1910 -- Typhois incidence & screening by Dr. Terry for 1910-1912 -- Burbridge with captured gorillas -- Capt. Day & others contribute to Florida Heart Association Duval Chapter -- Sellers Auditorium of Medical Society 1949 -- Mathews Bridge from shoreline -- Dr. Frank Slaughte rwith Librarian Lora-Frances Davis studying medical history of Egypt -- Duval Medical Center -- Saint Vincents Hospital -- Ancient Oak tree (Treaty Oak).Collection
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Medicine -- Florida -- Duval County -- History -- 19th century., Medicine -- Florida -- Duval County -- History -- 20th century., Duval County (Fla.) -- History., Jacksonville (Fla.) -- History., Societies, Medical -- History., Duval County Medical Society., Yellow fever -- Florida -- Jacksonville -- 1888., Slaughter, Frank G. (Frank Gill), 1908-2001., Camp Cuba Libre (Jacksonville, Fla.)., Great Fire, Jacksonville, Fla., 1901., Hawley, William Frost, 1861-1958., Treaty Oak (Jacksonville, Fla.).Publication Details
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Merritt, Webster, Lowenthal, JosephEdition
1stPublisher
Duval County Medical SocietyPlace Published
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Jacksonville, FLCall No.
R 15 .D848 1954LCCN
54-7077