From Galbraith’s medical license (issued by the Board of Medical Examiners of Arizona dated October 3, 1906 and now in AHSL’s collection): graduated from the College of Medicine and Surgery, Cincinnati, Ohio March 26, 1880.
Resided in Bisbee per Quebbeman (Appendix II, Biographical Notes, p. 342).
There is a William James Galbraith listed in the University of Arizona Biographical Files (http://www.library.arizona.edu/speccoll/search/documents/UABio.pdf)
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 342.
W. J. GALBRAITH, [PROFESSOR CLINICAL SURGERY, OMAHA MEDICAL COLLEGE ; VICE-PRESIDENT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION RAILWAY SURGEONS ; VISITING SURGEON, ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, AND CONSULTING SURGEON, IMMANUEL HOSPITAL, OMAHA, NEB.]. A REMARKABLE CASE. J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1891; XVI: 407 - 409.
W. J. GALBRAITH. REPORT ON AMPUTATIONS AT THE JUNCTURE OF THE TARSAL AND METATARSAL ARTICULATION. J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1896; XXVI: 617 - 618.
W. J. GALBRAITH. THE CRISIS AND TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA. J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1904; XLIII: 108 - 110.
W. J. GALBRAITH. TREATMENT AND ETIOLOGY OF PNEUMONIA. J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1904; XLIII: 608.
W. J. GALBRAITH. FIFTY CONSECUTIVE CASES OF PNEUMONIA WITHOUT A DEATH. J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1905; XLIV: 291 - 293.
W. J. GALBRAITH, Chief Surgeon, Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, Cananea, Sonora, and the Green Gold-Silver Company, Chihuahua. CANANEA, SONORA, MEXICO. PNEUMONIA. J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1906; XLVI: 410 - 415.
A. S. v. MANSFELDE. QUININ IN PNEUMONIA. J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1906; XLVI: 800: "Under the caption, 'Quinin in Pneumonia,' in The Journal, March 3, Dr. J. B. Cutter complains that Dr. W. J. Galbraith claims originality in the use of large doses of quinin, when Dr. A. J. Giesy pursued that course in 1894. ... Permit me to direct attention to page 165, vol. v, Ziemsen's Cyclopedia of the Practice of Medicine, published in 1875, a translation of Prof. Theodore Juergensen's classic article on 'Croupous Pneumonia,' the disease under consideration. ... Personally I have used just this treatment for thirty years within my limited opportunities -- and so much for priority. Dr. Galbraith, an old acquaintance of mine, certainly deserves great credit for bringing into prominence this old treatment of Juergensen's, which he uses exactly as I did... In this connection it may not be out of place to say that Dr. Galbraith's publication demonstrates that nihilism in the use of individual drugs simply means lack of knowledge of their proper uses, with the consequent reliance on proprietary mixtures, which only too often are void of substance and, consequently, of action. Again, is it not a pity that such masterly treatises as Ziemsen's Cyclopedia seem almost forgotten by the physician of to-day?
Arizona Daily Star, 10/20/1912: New sanitarium near Safford planned to tap healing waters. A $60,000 sanitarium is to be erected two miles south of Safford at the foot of the Graham Mountains. Ground will be broken within the next thirty days, and within a few months patients will be flocking in for the curative powers of the waters (that are) said to be equal to the far famed waters of Carlsbad and Marienbad. The temperature of the waters as it comes out of the ground is 124 degrees Fahrenheit, and those upon whom it has been used claim instant results from it. The sanitarium will be under the charge of Dr. Galbraith, for many years chief surgeon of the Union Pacific Railroad, now with the Harriman lines. A party of Globe men were drilling for oil not far from Safford about three years ago. After reaching a depth of several hundred feet, instead of striking the petroleum, struck boiling water, much to their surprise. They abandoned their drilling in disgust, not realizing that they had struck a liquid more valuable than the longed for oil. Someone discovered that the water contained powerful chemical substances and that it was a healing agent. The matter was called to the attention of the proper parties, and the project started on its way. Among those interested in it are S. S. Campbell of the Gila Valley Gas, Electric and Water company and A. G. Smith of the same company. The site of the sanitarium is two miles from where the water was struck and hence the water must be piped to the sanitarium.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1894; XXII: 643: National Association of Railway Surgeons. -- The following is the preliminary program of the seventh annual meeting of the National Association of Railway Surgeons, to be held in Harmony Hall, Galveston, Tex., May 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1894. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. President: Surgeon W. J. Galbraith, Omaha, Neb. ...
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1894; XXIII: 624: American Academy of Railway Surgeons. -- The first meeting of the American Academy of Railway Surgeons will be held in the parlors of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Nov. 9 and 10, 1894. ...[presentations include] ... Reasons for the Organization of the Academy, by W. J. Galbraith, Chief Surgeon Union Pacific Railway, Omaha, Neb.; ...
J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1901; XXXVI: 118: Dr. J. H. Raymond, formerly an instructor at Rush Medical College, has been appointed president of the Honolulu Board of Health in place of C. B. Wood, M.D., resigned. After about a year's absence in Chicago and San Francisco, he has resumed practice in partnership with Dr. W. J. Galbraith, formerly of Omaha.
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1905; XLIV: 802: U. S. Consul at Cananea. -- Dr. W. J. Galbraith, chief surgeon for the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, has been appointed United States Consul at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1905; XLV: 483: List of Members, Associate Members and Guests Who Registered at Portland, Oregon [for the AMA 1905 annual meeting]. Section on Surgery and Anatomy. Galbraith, W. J., Cananea, Mexico.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1919; 72: 1086: California. Dr. William J. Galbraith, Burbank, has been appointed district surgeon for the Southern Pacific System.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1933; 101: 945: William James Galbraith, Inglewood, Calif. ; Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, 1880 ; aged 73 ; died, in July, of cerebral hemorrhage.
Resided in Bisbee per Quebbeman (Appendix II, Biographical Notes, p. 342).
There is a William James Galbraith listed in the University of Arizona Biographical Files (http://www.library.arizona.edu/speccoll/search/documents/UABio.pdf)
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 342.
W. J. GALBRAITH, [PROFESSOR CLINICAL SURGERY, OMAHA MEDICAL COLLEGE ; VICE-PRESIDENT, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION RAILWAY SURGEONS ; VISITING SURGEON, ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL, AND CONSULTING SURGEON, IMMANUEL HOSPITAL, OMAHA, NEB.]. A REMARKABLE CASE. J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1891; XVI: 407 - 409.
W. J. GALBRAITH. REPORT ON AMPUTATIONS AT THE JUNCTURE OF THE TARSAL AND METATARSAL ARTICULATION. J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1896; XXVI: 617 - 618.
W. J. GALBRAITH. THE CRISIS AND TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA. J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1904; XLIII: 108 - 110.
W. J. GALBRAITH. TREATMENT AND ETIOLOGY OF PNEUMONIA. J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1904; XLIII: 608.
W. J. GALBRAITH. FIFTY CONSECUTIVE CASES OF PNEUMONIA WITHOUT A DEATH. J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1905; XLIV: 291 - 293.
W. J. GALBRAITH, Chief Surgeon, Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, Cananea, Sonora, and the Green Gold-Silver Company, Chihuahua. CANANEA, SONORA, MEXICO. PNEUMONIA. J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1906; XLVI: 410 - 415.
A. S. v. MANSFELDE. QUININ IN PNEUMONIA. J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1906; XLVI: 800: "Under the caption, 'Quinin in Pneumonia,' in The Journal, March 3, Dr. J. B. Cutter complains that Dr. W. J. Galbraith claims originality in the use of large doses of quinin, when Dr. A. J. Giesy pursued that course in 1894. ... Permit me to direct attention to page 165, vol. v, Ziemsen's Cyclopedia of the Practice of Medicine, published in 1875, a translation of Prof. Theodore Juergensen's classic article on 'Croupous Pneumonia,' the disease under consideration. ... Personally I have used just this treatment for thirty years within my limited opportunities -- and so much for priority. Dr. Galbraith, an old acquaintance of mine, certainly deserves great credit for bringing into prominence this old treatment of Juergensen's, which he uses exactly as I did... In this connection it may not be out of place to say that Dr. Galbraith's publication demonstrates that nihilism in the use of individual drugs simply means lack of knowledge of their proper uses, with the consequent reliance on proprietary mixtures, which only too often are void of substance and, consequently, of action. Again, is it not a pity that such masterly treatises as Ziemsen's Cyclopedia seem almost forgotten by the physician of to-day?
Arizona Daily Star, 10/20/1912: New sanitarium near Safford planned to tap healing waters. A $60,000 sanitarium is to be erected two miles south of Safford at the foot of the Graham Mountains. Ground will be broken within the next thirty days, and within a few months patients will be flocking in for the curative powers of the waters (that are) said to be equal to the far famed waters of Carlsbad and Marienbad. The temperature of the waters as it comes out of the ground is 124 degrees Fahrenheit, and those upon whom it has been used claim instant results from it. The sanitarium will be under the charge of Dr. Galbraith, for many years chief surgeon of the Union Pacific Railroad, now with the Harriman lines. A party of Globe men were drilling for oil not far from Safford about three years ago. After reaching a depth of several hundred feet, instead of striking the petroleum, struck boiling water, much to their surprise. They abandoned their drilling in disgust, not realizing that they had struck a liquid more valuable than the longed for oil. Someone discovered that the water contained powerful chemical substances and that it was a healing agent. The matter was called to the attention of the proper parties, and the project started on its way. Among those interested in it are S. S. Campbell of the Gila Valley Gas, Electric and Water company and A. G. Smith of the same company. The site of the sanitarium is two miles from where the water was struck and hence the water must be piped to the sanitarium.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1894; XXII: 643: National Association of Railway Surgeons. -- The following is the preliminary program of the seventh annual meeting of the National Association of Railway Surgeons, to be held in Harmony Hall, Galveston, Tex., May 8, 9, 10 and 11, 1894. OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION. President: Surgeon W. J. Galbraith, Omaha, Neb. ...
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1894; XXIII: 624: American Academy of Railway Surgeons. -- The first meeting of the American Academy of Railway Surgeons will be held in the parlors of the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Nov. 9 and 10, 1894. ...[presentations include] ... Reasons for the Organization of the Academy, by W. J. Galbraith, Chief Surgeon Union Pacific Railway, Omaha, Neb.; ...
J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1901; XXXVI: 118: Dr. J. H. Raymond, formerly an instructor at Rush Medical College, has been appointed president of the Honolulu Board of Health in place of C. B. Wood, M.D., resigned. After about a year's absence in Chicago and San Francisco, he has resumed practice in partnership with Dr. W. J. Galbraith, formerly of Omaha.
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1905; XLIV: 802: U. S. Consul at Cananea. -- Dr. W. J. Galbraith, chief surgeon for the Cananea Consolidated Copper Company, has been appointed United States Consul at Cananea, Sonora, Mexico.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1905; XLV: 483: List of Members, Associate Members and Guests Who Registered at Portland, Oregon [for the AMA 1905 annual meeting]. Section on Surgery and Anatomy. Galbraith, W. J., Cananea, Mexico.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1919; 72: 1086: California. Dr. William J. Galbraith, Burbank, has been appointed district surgeon for the Southern Pacific System.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1933; 101: 945: William James Galbraith, Inglewood, Calif. ; Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery, 1880 ; aged 73 ; died, in July, of cerebral hemorrhage.
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