ALABAMA MEDICAL HISTORY

Maintained by A.J. Wright

Alabama Department of Archives and History

General Medical History Resources
Bibliography of Secondary Works in the History of American Medicine
History of the Health Sciences World Wide Web Links
National Library of Medicine. History of Medicine Division.

City Hospital Operating Room, Mobile, Alabama, 1915

St. Vincennes Hospital
Birmingham
pre-1907

McAdory Infirmary
11^th Avenue and 25^th Street, Birmingham, ca. 1910
[Photo courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections]

Jefferson-Hillman Hospital
Birmingham

City Hospital
Huntsville

BIRMINGHAM, ALA., June 3. - Mr. George Allen, a machinist in the shops of the North & South Alabama Railroad, died yesterday about 2 o'clock in a dentist's chair, in the office of Dr. Eubank, a dentist of this city, from the effect of chloroform, administered by two well known physicians of Birmingham, for the purpose of extracting a tooth. Mr. Allen had been suffering for some days from the effect of a previous attempt to draw the tooth, and, unknown to the physicians, had already taken several doses of morphine. He leaves a wife and several children.
[Huntsville Weekly Democrat, 7 June 1882]

"THE SALE OF COCAINE IN MOBILE. To the Editor of The Register: In your paper of the 29th I saw a long article on the use or rather misuse of cocaine... Amongst all the dangerous alkaloids, cocaine is the worst, because not only does it destroy life, but reason .... Those who read your article no doubt think that all druggists in this city sell cocaine. I can assure them of the fact that the majority of the druggists here are men of professional standing and honorable men, who will not prostitute our profession by ruining people's reason and destroying their souls. There was a cocaine law introduced in the last legislature, but for various reasons not passed. It is now the duty of city fathers to pass such a law to try to stop the sale of that terrible stuff in this city; the only exception to be the prescriptions of physicians, dentists and veterinarians, and the sale by wholesale druggists. PHARMACIST.
[Wednesday, May 31, 1905 Mobile Register]

"Mr. Charles A. Scheuermann died yesterday morning at 8 o'clock at his home, No. 258 North Conception street, from an overdose of morphine, taken accidentally. He had been suffering from agonizing pains caused from a recent attack of appendicitis." A native of Mobile, he had become a marine engineer and "had worked on nearly every large tugboat plying the waters of Mobile bay and river. He had bout the tug Venture, and had made a success of that enterprise. He was survived by his wife, two children, one brother, one sister and other relatives."
[Saturday, June 30, 1906, Mobile Register]

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American Medical Directory physician listings for Alabama:
1912, 1916 , 1918 , 1921 , 1923 and 1931 [PDF files] 

[Alphabetical listing of medical colleges and key table: 1912 ed./PDF file]

Transactions of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama [large PDF files]
1889 1900 1906

Topics

Alabama Association of Nurse Anesthetists. History.
Alabama Hospital for the Insane. Documents.
Alabama Insane Hospitals. Instructions on Bringing a Patient.
Alabama Medical History: Bibliography
Alabama Museum of the Health Sciences 
Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame 
Alabama Nursing Hall of Fame
American Medical Directory Alabama physician listings: 1912, 1916 and 1921 [PDF files]
Anesthesia History in Alabama: A Brief Literature Review

Battered Women's Movement in Alabama
Black Physicians in Alabama Before World War I
Bryce Hospital [Abandoned Mental Institution]
Bryce Hospital
Bryce Hospital Cards/Photos

Children's Health System of Alabama. History.
Cholera Epidemic of 1873 [Birmingham] by Mortimer H. Jordan
Cholera Epidemic of 1873 in Birmingham, Alabama by David Bishop

Early Black and Female Physicians in Jefferson County
Eichold-Heustis Medical Museum of the South

Female Physicians in Alabama Before World War I
Dr. J.C. Francis Museum and Apothecary

Graefenberg Cemetery, Tallapoosa Co, Alabama
[burial site of Dr. Philip Madison Shepard, founder of Graefenberg Medical Institute in Dadeville, and some of his family members. See Turner Roy H. Graefenberg, the Shepard family's medical school. Ann Med Hist series 2. 5:548-560-, 1933; a PDF version of this article is here;  and Holley, Howard L. The History of Medicine in Alabama. Birmingham: University of Alabama School of Medicine, 1982, pp 77-81]

Gardner Quincy Colton's 1848 Visit to Mobile, Alabama 

Harrison School of Pharmacy. Auburn University. History.
Holmes Medical Museum [Foley]
Hospitals and Sanitariums: Alabama, 1902

Jefferson County Department of Health. History: Public Health Before 1917
Jefferson County Medical Society. Historical Fast Facts.

Madison County. Medical Certificates 1878-1959
Medical Association of the State of Alabama-History
Merritt, Brinase. Granddaughter shares story of midwifery.
Miss Evers' Boys. Film review and IMDB entry.
Mobile Medical Museum
Montgomery Guarded in 1897 as Yellow Fever Toll Climbed
Museum of East Alabama. Medical Equipment.

North Alabama Epidemics, Patent Medicines, Folklore & Superstitions

Photo Gallery for Alabama Medical History
Public Health in Jefferson County. History.

Randolph County Medical Society
-Officers: 1898, 1903, 1908, 1909
-Meeting: 1909
Regional Medical Programs-Alabama. History.
Reynolds Historical Library [UAB School of Medicine]

Southeast Alabama Medical Center. Our History.
Southern Surgical Association Archives
Stabler Infirmary and Hospital [Greenville]

Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Centers for Disease Control. Tuskegee Syphilis Study Page.
Internet Resources on the Tuskegee Study
Miss Evers' Boys. Film review and IMDB entry.
National Public Radio. Tuskegee Lessons.
National Public Radio. Remembering Tuskegee.
Preliminary Bibliography on the Tuskegee Study
Request for Redress of the Wrongs of Tuskegee
Special Obituary Tribute: Tuskegee Syphilis Research Study Survivors
Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics. News Coverage.
White House. Apology for Study Done in Tuskegee.

University of Alabama Hospital Hallmarks and Milestones
University of Alabama Medical Alumni Association. History. Also here.
University of Alabama School of Medcine. History of the UAB Medical Center.
University of Alabama at Birmingham Archives [includes School of Medicine]
University of Alabama at Birmingham. Chronology. [includes School of Medicine]
University of Alabama at Birmingham. Department of Anesthesiology. History of Anesthesia Section.
University of Alabama at Birmingham. Department of Anesthesiology. Timeline.
University of South Alabama Medical Center. History

Yellow Fever Epidemic 1878 [Mobile]

Historical Articles

*Turner Roy H. Graefenberg, the Shepard family's medical school. Ann Med Hist series 2. 5:548-560-, 1933; a PDF version of this article is here

*Washington BT. Training colored nurses at Tuskegee. American Journal of Nursing 11(1): 167-171, 1910 [PDF]

People

Louise H. Branscomb
Peter Bryce

Jerome Cochrane
Russell Cunningham

James Garber Galbraith
William Crawford Gorgas

Seale Harris

CHarles Etchison Lavendeer, MD [Lowndes County]
-Autobiography 1832-1834 
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

Lister Hill [Alabama Men's Hall of Fame]
Lister Hill [UAB Lister Hill Library]

Louise H. Branscomb
Peter Bryce

Jerome Cochrane
Russell Cunningham

James Garber Galbraith
William Crawford Gorgas

Seale Harris

CHarles Etchison Lavendeer, MD [Lowndes County]
-Autobiography 1832-1834 
part 1
part 2
part 3
part4

Lister Hill [Alabama Men's Hall of Fame]
Lister Hill [UAB Lister Hill Library]

Albert Gallatin Mabry, M.D. [1810-1874]
[Biographical note, Memorial Record of Alabama, 1893, 1: 886-888]

Albert Gallatin Mabry Home [Selma]
Alice McNeal
Edward Hawthorne Moren

Lloyd Noland

Pascal Harrison Owen

Burgess E. Scruggs
Olivia Sheppard
[memories of a Hillman School of Nursing graduate]
James Marion Sims
E.V. Stabler [1905-1994]
L.V. Stabler [1875-1964]

John Allan Wyeth

Wyeth, John Allan (1845-1922)
With Sabre and Scalpel; the Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
[New York; London: Harper & Brothers, 1914]

Stabler Infirmary and Hospital
Greenville [postcard from the 1930s]

SEE: 
Fathers and sons in medicine: 7 Stablers have practiced or will practice in Greenville.
Journal of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama
39(10): 953-954, 956, April 1970

Birmingham Baptist Hospital (West End)
[For a history of this hospital, see Holley, A History of Medicine in Alabama, p69]
Image of postcard used with permission from The2Buds Vintage Postcard Shop
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

*Alabama Medical History [Bibliography Generated from PubMed database 10/2004]

*Holley HL. A History of Medicine in Alabama. University of Alabama School of Medicine, 1982.