Monday, January 24, 2022

Alabama History & Culture News: January 24 Edition

 


Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these items are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio station websites. Some articles may be behind a paywall. Enjoy!


Fairhope is an Alabama place of wonders, from sunsets to seafood to storybook castles ...

The late Winston Groom, creator of “Forrest Gump,” lived in nearby Magnolia Springs. Business is so brisk that they've added The Book Cellar, an event ...

Outlaw House just a memory, new book highlights unique sites in Alabama | WKRG
It's one of two Mobile County landmarks featured in a new book that highlights unique old buildings in Alabama. Apart from some stones from the ...
'Descendant' Review: Africatown Documentary Rectifies Black Erasure by Filling Historical Gaps
Because for the many Black folks living in Africatown, Alabama, where the last slave ship made landfall, remembering is what they do best.
... settlement to develop and build a new Welcome Center adjacent to the Old Plateau Cemetery where gravesites of Clotilda passengers are located.

The Last Slave Ship review: the Clotilda, Africatown and a lasting American injustice - The Guardian
Ben Raines offers a welcome and affecting history lesson about a dark moment ... custom-built schooner, the Clotilda, returned to Mobile, Alabama, ...


Albertville Museum receives Alabama Humanities recovery grant | News | sandmountainreporter.com
The Albertville Museum has earned a $6000 competitive Alabama Humanities ... Our Mission of protecting and displaying the History of Albertville.
PBS host Darley Newman explores Alabama Civil Rights Trail in new season of 'Travels with ...
Darley Newman visits many historic sites on the Alabama Civil Rights Trail in two episodes of her PBS series "Travels with Darley," including ...
7 Writers of the Harlem Renaissance - HISTORY
Author Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). Corbis/Getty Images. After growing up in rural Alabama and Florida, Zora Neale Hurston attended Howard ...

This time around, surgeons in Alabama transplanted a pig's kidneys into a brain-dead man — a step-by-step rehearsal for an operation they hope to try ...

CVHS to host historian Mike Bunn in virtual program - Valley Times-News
23, the Chattahoochee Valley Historical Society will be featuring this subject in a virtual meeting. Mike Bunn, one of Alabama's leading ...

Historian invites public to dedication at historic Speake cemetery | News | moultonadvertiser.com
However, the ceremony will be open to the public and visitors are welcome to attend, Mize said. “Members of the Alabama Historical Commission will be ...

Imani Perry on how the racial sins of the South belong to us all - Los Angeles Times
A native of Alabama who was raised in New England, Perry considers the South ... and in the sense of where I'm situated socially and historically.


Alumna Publishes First Coloring Book About African-American Inventors | Alabama State University
“The coloring and activities book is a fun and interactive way to start learning our Black American history,” Thompson-Gray said.

Alabama is in a 'State of Denial': Join the discussion of a whitewashed history poisoning our ...
The 1901 Alabama Constitution was forged in a period most Alabama history textbooks breeze past — the years following Reconstruction when Union ...

A Lawrence County cemetery is being added to the state's list of ... “Members of the Alabama Historical Commission will be present,” Mize said.


Funeral services will be at Saint Joseph Catholic Church (2300 Beasley Avenue, Huntsville) at 9 a.m. on Monday, January 24 followed by military burial ...


Published author has ties to Greenville
“My mother worked at the Alabama Institute as well. ... Barnes started her published career with two poetry books, “More P's Please,” volumes 1 ...

CVHS to host historian Mike Bunn in virtual program - Valley Times-News
Mike Bunn, one of Alabama's leading historians and director of the ... Park in Spanish Fort, Alabama, will be speaking on his most recent book, ...
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Friday, January 21, 2022

Cardiology & Cardiovascular Surgery: Intersections in Alabama

Today I'm posting a piece by a guest author, Dr. James Boogaerts of the UAB School of Medicine. He discusses the way in which the specialties of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery came to the state-specifically at what is now the UAB Heersink School of Medicine-after World War II.

A more detailed look at some of this history can be found in 

Holman WL, Deas DS Jr, Kirklin JK. Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB): A Legacy of Innovation, Education, and Contributions. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Winter;32(4):606-616

A good overview of the state's medical history is Howard Holley's 1983 book, A History of Medicine in Alabama. 

I would like to thank Dr. Boogaerts for allowing me to add his piece to AlabamaYesterdays. I have added a few images and notes at the end. 

Much of Alabama's medical history is poorly documented. I've written quite a few related posts on this blog; you can find links to some of them here. 



History of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery

-  Intersections in Alabama -





James Boogaerts, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
UAB Division of Cardiovascular Disease

Received his Ph.D. & M.D. from LSU Medical Center in New Orleans, completed his residency and a cardiology fellowship at UAB 1984-90

  

     Dr. John Burrett, first cardiologist in Alabama, arrived in Birmingham in 1946. Dr. Burrett had lived on East 88th Street in Manhattan when he graduated in 1937 from New York Medical College, where his father was dean. He subsequently moved to Boston and worked in the physiology lab of Dr. Walter B. Cannon at Harvard, then trained as a cardiology fellow with Dr. Paul Dudley White, who had begun the first cardiology service in the U.S., at the Massachusetts  General Hospital, in 1916.  Dr. Burrett and Dr. White co-published a research article on congenital heart disease in 1945.

 


John Burrett 



Paul Dudley White           

 

     One question regarding the John Burrett story is why an established physician from the Northeast would move to the South in the mid-40s and join the faculty of the Medical College of Alabama, which had moved in 1945 from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham.  The facts are that Dr. Burrett had met Dr. Joseph Donald, an Alabama surgeon, during his military service and he had met and married a nurse, Clara Bray, who was training in Manhattan.  Her home was in Orlando, Florida, but her extended family was from Georgia.

 


Tinsley Harrison



Al Blalock



Vivien Thomas 



     Tinsley Harrison came to UAB in 1950.  His roommate and close friend during med school and residency at Johns Hopkins (in the 1920s) was Alfred Blalock, who performed the first-ever elective cardiovascular surgery on November 29, 1944, with VivienThomas talking him through the operative procedure.  Two decades later, Levi Watkins - by happenstance - followed the pathway of Vivien Thomas to Vanderbilt and later to Johns Hopkins. Levi Watkins enrolled in Vanderbilt School of Medicine in 1966 and then moved through Johns Hopkins as a surgical resident and joined the faculty at Hopkins as a cardiac surgeon.     


   


Dr. Levi Watkins



Luther Hill



Michael DeBakey





John W. Kirklin

 Earlier, Luther Hill had performed the first successful emergency cardiac surgery in the U.S. - in Montgomery, Alabama in 1902 - when he sutured the heart of patient with a penetrating stab wound.  Michael DeBakey, while a medical student at Tulane in New Orleans, pioneered use of the roller pump for blood transfusions in the 1930s; the roller pump was later used in the first heart-lung bypass machine in 1953.  In 1955, while at Mayo Clinic, significant improvements were made by John Kirklin and his team.  Kirklin was recruited to UAB in Birmingham in 1966.





Dr. Andreas Gruentzig 


     Andreas Gruentzig arrived at Emory School of Medicine in Atlanta in 1980.  One of his cardiology fellows was Gary Roubin.  While on faculty at Emory, Roubin pioneered development of the intracoronary stent.  He came to UAB in 1989.



Dr. Gary Roubin      

 


      Contributions of physicians working in Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Georgia - Luther Hill, Tinsley Harrison, Michael Debakey, Al Blalock, Vivien Thomas, John Kirklin, Levi Watkins, Andreas Gruentzig, and Gary Roubin - are thus connected to both early and recent pivotal events in cardiology and cardiovascular surgery.


 

See   *pump*  and   *balloon*  and   *stent*  pages





Article by Burrett, White and others published in the July 1942 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation while Burrett worked in White's lab in Boston. 










After he joined the Medical College of Alabama faculty in 1946, Dr. Burrett published a few articles in his area of expertise. two of them are listed below. The one above appeared in the October 1947 Jefferson-Hillman Hospital Bulletin and had a different format. As noted on the first page above, he reviewed the "so-called orthodox therapy" on myocardial infarction [heart attack]. His talk at the house staff bi-monthly seminar was followed by extensive discussion of his remarks.  



1: BURRETT JB, KAHN SS. Incidence of a very slow ventricular rate in a young adult with A-V block and Stokes-Adams attacks. Jefferson-Hillman Hosp Bull. 1947 Jul;1(3):56-64. PMID: 20252035.

2: BURRETT JB. Nonsurgical congenital heart disease. J Med Assoc State Ala. 1950 Sep;20(3):79-81. PMID: 15437143



 

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Monday, January 17, 2022

Alabama History & Culture News: January 17 edition

 



Here's the latest batch of links to just-published Alabama history and culture articles. Most of these items are from newspapers, with others from magazines and TV and radio station websites. Some articles may be behind a paywall. Enjoy!


Horror in Alabama: The genre's roots in the state run deep, from 'Scream' to 'Get Out' - al.com
They swapped location of the 1983 book from Norway to Demopolis, Alabama. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021). Alabama connection: Stars ...



Dan Abrams Authors New Book About Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Trial - Law & Crime
The coming new book Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Criminal Trial that Launched the Civil Rights Movement takes a look at the ..

Filmmaker from Opelika tells untold stories of African Americans in Alabama | Local News ...
Theo Moore has a passion for learning history and sharing these stories with others. His goal is to share the untold, inspiring success stories of ...


Was Alabama the 1st US State To Declare Christmas an Official Holiday? - ToysMatrix
Historical records show that, in 1848, the Alabama state Legislature first labeled Christmas a bank holiday — a legal title that mandates a one-day ...

Ambushed in Eufaula: Alabama's forgotten race massacre - al.com
I want to show you what a hole in Alabama history looks like. Downtown Eufaula is postcard pretty. It fits the Hollywood idea of what a small ...

A place for untold history: Historians and Black leaders in Auburn share high hopes for ...
A historical marker in Loachapoka indicates that the first Rosenwald Fund school was built there in ... Jeremy Gray of Alabama House District 83.

Opelika's Abby Snelling makes a stitch in time to embroider history into art - Alabama NewsCenter
(Tessa Battles / Alabama Living). History may be made one moment at a time, but Abby Snelling is capturing it one stitch at a time.

National Geographic Announce New Documentary – “Clotilda: Last American Slave Ship ...
Stacye Hathorn, Alabama State archaeologist, Alabama Historical Commission; Joseph Grinnan, maritime archaeologist/diver, SEARCH, Inc. Kamau Sadiki, ...


EJI's New Legacy Museum Named Alabama Tourism's 2022 Attraction of the Year
The new Legacy Museum provides a comprehensive history of the United States with a focus on the legacy of slavery. From the Transatlantic Slave ...


The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning

B Raines - 2022
… A secret beneath the murky waters of an Alabama swamp has been revealed.
One hundred … After successfully returning to Alabama from Ouidah, one of Africa’s
most notorious slave … ,” producing one of the most definitive accounts in the …


History on display in sculpture at Alabama Bicentennial Park
The bronze sculptures in Montgomery's Alabama Bicentennial Park represent pivotal moments in Alabama's history. (contributed).


Alabama's capitol is a crime scene. The cover-up has lasted 120 years. - al.com
State of Denial: How white-washed history poisons Alabama. ... Perched atop Goat Hill in Montgomery, the Alabama capitol is the sort of backdrop ...

Whiskey Bottle Tombstone. Clayton City Cemetery. Clayton, Alabama. In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.


Birmingham author writes book to help people find purpose in life - YouTube
A Birmingham native has released a new book that helps people find their purpose in life. Eric Jones' new book is titled “When Passion Me


BREAKING: Oak Mountain State Park expands 1644-acres, thanks to Forever Wild and EBSCO
Last week, before 2021 came to an end, the state of Alabama's Forever ... To put the size of the expansion into perspective, Alabama's largest and ..
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