Medical History in Bernalillo County by Dr. Stuart Adler; Native American- Medicine men, early Priests as healers. 1706 Albuquerque; 1779- Medical history- credit DiLonsing Bloom history; 1804- England, Military surgeon, inoculation for cowpox/smallpox- Military surgeon stationed in Albuquerque Army. Dr. Dean DeLeon in Alb. then Santa Fe. Dr. Henry Commelly. post Civil War 1870s- Dr. Symington- NM. Medical society- moved to Santa Fe in St. Vincent hospital (first genuine hospital in the Southwest). Sister Blendina, Stanta Fe, diary to novel- Sister of Charity hospital next to Don Filipe de Neve. Dr. Henry F Hoyt- Frontier Dr, 1899, proactive in Bernalillo. Dr. Carroll- not "real" doctor thought had been practicing- took care of Dr. Hoyt. Don Pedro Jose Centones Montoya, patient pneumonia. 4/28/1880 Mail road to Albuquerque. Old Town aka "Adobe Albuquerque". Beginning of present day Albuquerque- 1883 there were 16 doctors. Las Vegas had a "medical society"- doctors grouping together, Dr. Page, graduate of Harvard Medical. 1886 doc. Centennial Medical Society. 1870 the population of Albuquerque was 7,000. St. Xavier's Church became a center for Tuberculosis treatment. Sanitaria up Central Ave. 1908 St. Joseph's Hospital, Lutheran, Methodists Sanitarium, 2 Presbyterian hospitals, St. Vincent's school Albuquerque Historical Society; MP3 Converted, November 16, 1969
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Dates
- November 16, 1969
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From the Collection: 1 box
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From the Collection: English
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Part of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Special Collections Library Repository
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Albuquerque NM 87102 USA
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Special Collections Library
The Public Library, Albuquerque and Bernalillo County
423 Central Ave NE
Albuquerque NM 87102 USA
505.848.1376
specialcollections@cabq.gov