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Title: One hundred years of medicine and surgery in Missouri; historical and biographical review of the careers of the physicians and surgeons of the state of Missouri, and sketches of some of its notable medical institutions
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Goldstein, Max A. (Max Aaron), 1870-1941, ed
Subjects: Medicine Physicians
Publisher: (St. Louis) St. Louis Star
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
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rganized in 1896. Its first class was graduated in 1897. Dr.W. H. Jenney is the clean of the school. Two medical publications exist in Kansas City. They are theKansas City Medical Record, published by Dr. A. L. Fulton, and the Kan-sas City Medical Index-Lancet, edited by Dr. John Punton. The Index-Lancet is a consolidation of the Kansas City Medical Index and the papercalled Langdales Lancet. It has a large circulation, not only among localphysicians, but all over the State of Missouri. St. Joseph has two medical schools, the Ensworth Medical Collegeand the Central Medical College, both regular schools. The EnsworthSchool was organized in 188? as the St. Joseph Medical College by a unionof the St. Joseph Hospital Medical College and the College of Physiciansand Surgeons. It was reorganized in 1888 as the Ensworth MedicalCollege. ~ Thomas H. Doyle is the president and Hiram A. Christopherthe secretary. The Central Medical College was organized in 1894, Dr. T. E. Potteris its secretarv.
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MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 109 MEDICAL NOTES FROM PETTIS COUNTY.* The following record has been obtained mostly from Dr. John W.Trader, who several years ago wrote a necrological report of physiciansof Pettis Count), Missouri. Dr. Trader relied mainly upon informationfurnished by old settlers, and especially upon that furnished by the lateMaj. William. Gentry, who was familiar and personally acquainted with allthese families. These reports are necessarily brief, as nothing is attempted beyond aneffort to preserve the history of those persons who, in many instances, wereimportant factors in the first settlement of our county and the medicalhistory of the century. Dr. Christian E. Bidstrap, a native of Denmark, settled near George-town, Pettis Co., Mo., in the year 1S33, on a farm; practiced medicinesome six or eight 3rears; died near Clifton, at the home of his brother. Dr. Moses A. Ferris was a surgeon in the volunteer forces from Ken-tucky in the war of 1812; removed from Georgetown, Ky.,

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