1 audiocassette (65 min.), 1 transcript (21 pages), correspondence, 1 color photoprint (9 x 13 cm, 3.5 x 5 in.), 1983 December 1

File — Folder: 1047

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This interview with Dr. Milton Floersheim, Jr., (1919-2000), a family practitioner who set up his private practice in Roy, New Mexico in 1946, then moved to Raton 18 months later, sheds light on both rural practice on the plains of northeastern New Mexico and on medicine and the medical community in Raton. (At the time of the interview, Dr. Floersheim had been in practice in Raton for 35 years.) Among the subjects discussed are the "old-timey" doctors of the 1920s and 1930s in Roy and Clayton, New Mexico; the nature and limits of rural practice in the 1930s and 1940s; the physicians of Raton in the 1940s through the 1970s; the advent of sulfa drugs and penicillin; mining camp and traditional medicine in the area; hospital competition in Raton; and other topics.