Friday, February 10, 2017

Medical History in Birmingham: The List

I recently worked on a blog item fitting this general topic, and it dawned on me how many such posts I've done since I start this blog in March 2014. I've also published relevant items in other venues. I decided to bring them together in a single posting with links; perhaps I'll be doing something similar in other subjects. I'll try to keep this one updated as well.

 So here we go....













Hektoen International series on "Famous Hospitals: Hillman Hospital


Profile of Dr. Lloyd Noland 
Important to public health in Birmingham for many years


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5 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 9, 2018 at 2:31 PM

    My paternal grandmother, a Miss Alma Hudson, trained to be a registered nurse in Birmingham before moving to Montevallo to marry in 1903. A local newspaper article at the time said that she had been a nurse at the Davis Infirmary, but I can find no mention of such a place on-line. Do you have any suggestions of where I might find more information about nurses'training in Birmingham around that time?

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  2. AlabamaYesterdaysSeptember 10, 2018 at 7:52 AM

    Hello, Sara Pankaskie...very interesting! If you go to my blog post "Alabama Medical Ads in 1911" at https://tinyurl.com/y7lt2vgy the first illustration is the Davis Infirmary. This facility was operated by two physician brothers, William & John Davis. As luck would have it, I have written an entry on them for the Encyclopedia of Alabama, but it has yet to be edited & posted. Here's the relevant paragraph on the Infirmary from my draft: "In 1892 and 1893 William spent several months at the Holmes Sanitarium for Diseases of Women in Rome, Georgia. Using the well-known private facility as a model, the brothers opened the Davis and Davis Private Infirmary for female diseases and surgical cases. Located on 21st Street South in Birmingham, the facility operated for a decade until William’s death." As the ad notes, there was also nurse training at the Infirmary. Hope this helps.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 25, 2018 at 8:31 AM

    Dear A.J.,
    Thanks so much! This will be a nice addition to my family history. Would you be at all interested in having a picture of my grandmother in her nurse's uniform with seven other nurses?

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    1. AlabamaYesterdaysSeptember 26, 2018 at 6:25 AM

      Thanks for your offer. I would indeed be interested in such a photo & whatever information you have about it. In fact, if you want to share a bit of other information & another photo or two about your grandmother I'd like to put together a blog post about her. Contact me at wrightaj21 at gmail.com & we can discuss further!

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  4. Robert DentonFebruary 4, 2019 at 11:34 PM

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