Medical obituaries
Subtitle: American physicians' biographical notices in selected medical journals before 1907
By: Lisabeth M. Holloway ; with the assistance of Ernest N. Feind, George N. Holloway.
Contributors: Feind, Ernest N.; Holloway, George N.
Series: Garland reference library of social science ;; v. 104
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 513
Subjects: Physicians -- United States -- Biography; Physicians -- United States -- Obituaries; Obituaries -- United States -- Indexes; Medicine -- Periodicals -- Indexes
Description: Lists 17,350 physicians. Although biographical information was taken primarily from obituary notices in periodicals, other sources were also used, such as medical school and alumni registers, society transactions, and proceedings. Each entry gives available personal, educational, and professional information, as well as the periodical or other source. Contains a list of principle sources.