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Copyrighted 1930 STANDARD PRINTING & LITHOGRAPHING Co. 1207-11 Capitol Ave. Houston, Texas
This book is lovingly dedicated to those who today share the lives of "The Medicine Man in Texas" THE WoMAN's AuxiLIARY TO THE TEXAS STATE MEDICAL AssociATION.
Acknowledgments In presenting this book to the public, the author is fully aware that there are many worthy pioneers of medicine in Texas whose biographies are not included. The families of these men either have not known that this record was being written, or they have been indifferent to the fact. It is hoped that subsequent records may be added. The author's one regret is that the name of every child and grandchild is not available; therefore all are omitted. Obviously a book of this type cannot be written without much assistance. Those to whom the author is deeply indebted are: Dr. Holman Taylor, secretary of the Texa State Medical Association; Dr. Samuel Clark Red, Winifred Rich Osborne, George W. Cottingham, Winnie Allen, Archivest, University of Texas; Julia Ideson, Librarian Houston Public Library; Helen Mary Holt, Librarian Harris County Medical Society; Elizabeth D. Runge, Librarian University of Texas Medical College; Mr. Clarence Wharton, Mr. Louis Wiltz Kemp, Dr. Marvin Lee Graves, Louise Gardner Red, Alice Plunkett. Cranz, Laura Ghent Graves, Katharine Red Parker, Mrs. Henry C. Haden, Mrs. A. Philo Howard, Mrs. 0. M. Marchman Dr. J. D. Osborne, Secretary to the Ex-Presidents Association of the Texas State Medical Association. The author is indebted to the following persons for information concerning the counties indicated: Robbie Buckner Westerfield, Dallas County; Eugenia Reed Collum, Bowie County; Mrs. L. B. Leak, Bell County; Mrs. A. L. Fuller, Fayette County; Mrs. Leonidas A. Suggs, Tarrant County; Mrs. E. M. Thomas, Williamson County; Mrs. J. I. Collier, Falls County; Margaret H. Thomas, Jefferson County; Dr. Felix Miller and Mrs. B. F. Stevens, El Paso County; Mrs. William A. Toland, Grimes and Washington Counties; Mrs. W. A. Wood, McLennan County; The Woman's Auxiliary to the Harrison County Medical Association. Many documents in this book are copied verbatim. Their wording is foreign and quaint which should make them doubly interesting.
TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE Chapter Page I MEDICAL ADVENTURES....................... 3 II SPANISH AND MEXICAN RECORDS.............. 12 III ARRIVAL of ANGLo-SAXON DocToRs...... 26 IV THE ALAMO AND GoLIAD..................... 36 V SuRGEONS AT SAN jaci NTO....... 47 VI ASHBEL SMITH-GIDEON LINCECUM............. 70 VII MEDICAL LEGISLATION....................... 79 VIII GossiP.................................... 84 IX FIRST MEDICAL CoNVE TION................. 97 X PETTICOAT MEDICINE....... 104 PART TWO ANDERSON CouNTY........ 113 ANGELINA CouNTY..................... 114 AusTIN CouNTY............... 120 BELL CouNTY......... 121 BEXAR CouNTY........... 128 BowiE CouNTY..... 139 BRAZORIA CouNTY... 148 BRowN CouNTY....................... 149 CAMERON CouNTY... 152 CoLORADO CouNTY....... 155 CooKE CouNTY................ 160 CoRYELL CouNTY............... 161 DALLAS CouNTY....... 162 DENTON CouNTY................. 176 ELLis CouNTY............... 177 EL PAso CouNTY.......... 180 FALLS CouNTY... 194 FANNIN CouNTY....... 197 FAYETTE CouNTY.................. 198 FoRT BEND CouNTY............... 203 GALVESTON CouNTY...... 205 GoLIAD CouNTY....... 228 GRAYSON CouNTY... 228
GRIMES CouNTY... 229 HARRIS CouNTY............ 241 HARRISON CouNTY... 263 HILL CouNTY... 2 77 HoPKINS CouNTY... 2 78 HuNT CouNTY... 279 JEFFERSON CouNTY...... 280 JoHNSON CouNTY... 283 LAMAR CoUNTY................................... 2 84 LAvACA CouNTY... 284 MARION CouNTY... 285 McLENNAN CouNTY... 287 NACOGDOCHES CouNTY... 298 N UECES CouNTY... 299 PALO PINTO CouNTY...... 301 RoBERTSON CouNTY... 302 SMITH CouNTY........ 304 TARRANT CouNTY... 306 TRA vrs CouNTY... 317 VIcTORIA CouNTY... 324 WALKER CouNTY... 326 WASHINGTON CouNTY... 328 WILLIAMSON CouNTY...... 333 PAsT PRESIDENTS, STATE MEDICAL AssociATION... 341 BIBLIOGRAPHY... 343
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS INSTRUMENTS OF EARLY DocTORS.... Frontispiece BATTLE OF SAN JACINTO........................... 4 7 DR. NICHOLAS D. LA EADIE........................ 53 DR. WILLIAM M. MoTLEY.......................... 57 DR. ANSON JONES................................. 65 DR. AsH BEL SMITH................................ 71 VERGREEN, HoME of DR. SMITH......... 75 HousToN AS PicTURED IN LoNDON IN 1844... 87 DR. }AMES ADDISON ABNEY...... 115 DR. GEORGE CUPPLES....... 129 DR. MARTIN READ... 141 AN OLEANDER GROVE IN GALVESTON... 205 BoNE SAw....... 247 DR. D. F. STUART... 251 DR. D. R. WALLACE... 289
DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATION No.!-Instrument used in 1854 by Dr. Martin Read to pull teeth. A pair of hooks were inserted on the slide as the end to fit the tooth, then the handle, of ivory, win given a twist. No. 2-Medicine scales used by Dr. Martin Read in Bowie County, 1854. No. 3-Scarifier used by Dr. Martin Read for bleeding patients. The spring being pressed down, knives were forced out of opening to cut the skin, then blood was drawn by a cupping glass, called a "wet cup." No. 4-This crude instrument was devised by Dr. James A. Abney on the spur of the moment from two hairpins fastened to twigs when he was called to extract a grain of corn from the trachea of a small girl. After an incision was made, the hooks were inserted just as she was exhaling, the incision was pulled open and the grain of corn :flew out. No. 5-Dr. Abney made this emergency instrument from turkey quills in the early seventies to remove a twentyfive cent piece from the oesophagus of a twelve-year-old boy. He got the coin. That is all the best equipped specialist of 1930 could do.