Medical history in Buffalo, 1846-1996
Subtitle: collected essays
By: compiled and edited by Lilli Sentz ; advisory committee, Ronald E. Batt [and others]
Contributors: State University of New York at Buffalo. Health Sciences Library. Friends; State University of New York at Buffalo. School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Publisher: Friends of the Health Sciences Library and School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York at Buffalo
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [Buffalo]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Medicine; History; Physicians; Hospitals; Medical education; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bench marks  -- John H. Talbott; title: Geography and medicine : founding a medical school on the Niagara Frontier  -- Richard V. Lee, Lilli Sentz; title: A tale of two nineteenth-century hospitals : Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity and Buffalo General Hospital  -- Jean Richardson; title: Ray Vaughn Pierce, M.D. 1840-1914 : Buffalo's common sense medical adviser  -- Luella Allen; title: R.V. Pierce and the Invalids' hotel : mechanical progress and the business of medicine  -- Lynnette E. Leidy; title: Buffalo's other medical school 1883-1898  -- Robert S. O'Shea; title: Germ theories, scientific medicine, and the Buffalo medical community  -- George E. Haddad; title: Roswell Park, M.D.--The parasitic theory of the cause of cancer  -- Andrew A. Gage; title: Dr. Roswell Park and the McKinley assassination  -- Michael L. Palmer, Robert J. Weiss, Lilli Sentz; title: Dr. Roswell Park's lasting legacy to the world in developing the concept of a cancer center  -- Edwin A. Mirand; title: A history of Buffalo's medical response to the great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919  -- Deborah Bruch Bucki; title: Irving W. Potter and Podalic version : a Buffalo case study  -- Vern L. Bullough; title: The development of the implantable cardiac pacemaker  -- Andrew A. Gage; title: The origin of newborn screening  -- Robert Guthrie; title: The making of the first loop  -- Jack Lippes; title: A short history of the Department of Gynecology-Obstetrics  -- Ronald E. Batt; title: Forces of change : Buffalo and its deans  -- Richard A. Powell; title: A salute to three academic giants from Buffalo  -- John P. Naughton; title: Bibliographic essay. Bibliography -- Lilli Sentz.