Per the 1/13/1942 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954, Houle gave a presentation on the history of smallpox.
Arizona Medical Board record: Emile C. Houle MD; license number: 348; licensed date: 11/08/1907; medical school: UNIV OF MI MED SCH, Ann Arbor, Michigan; graduation date: 06/01/1904
Nogales addresses per the 1935 and 1955 issues of the Arizona State Medical Directory: P.O. Box 1136 (1935); 103 Terrace Ave. (1955).
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 348: University of Michigan, 1904.
Emile Cyrus Houle,1881-1966, graduated, M. D., from the University of Michigan in 1904. Houle became the Assistant Surgeon of the Sud Pacifico (S. P.) de Mexico Railroad Company on the west coast of Mexico in 1907 where he worked under George Emory Goodfellow, M. D. Over the next 10 years, Houle advanced from Assistant Surgeon to Chief Surgeon of the S. P. de Mexico Railroad Company before enlisting in the U. S. A. Medical Corps in 1917 for the WWI war effort. His military service included service in the 1st Battalion 20th Engineers, Dax, France and the Surgeon Camp, Dax, France, and a commission to Major, M. C., before discharge after 13 months of service in 1919. After his military service, Houle returned as Chief Surgeon of the S. P. de Mexico Railroad Company. During his medical career, Houle contributed to and wrote a number of published research articles on a variety of topics, including yellow fever on the Mexican west coast from 1921-1925, and is credited with aiding in the eradication of malaria in Sonora, Mexico.
Source: Emile Cyrus Houle Collection, 1896-2010, (bulk 1910-1927). University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1907; XLIX: 697: Medical News. Michigan. ... Dr. Emile C. Houle, Kearsarge, has resigned as assistant physician at the Wolverine Mine and will accept a similar position at Douglas, Ariz.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1918; 70: 326: Medical Mobilization and the War. ORDERS TO OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS. Michigan. ... To Camp Greene, Charlotte, N. C, base hospital, from Fort Oglethorpe, Capt. EMILE C. HOULE, Negaunee.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1933; 100: 1183: The annual meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association will be held at Tucson, April 20-22, with headquarters at the Santa Rita Hotel under the presidency of Dr. Clarence Gunter, Globe. Scientific meetings will be in the Scottish Rite Temple. The following physicians are on the program : ... Emile C. Houle, Nogales, Belated Treatment of Sequelae of Diphtheria.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1954; 154: 1432: The Arizona Medical Association will hold its annual meeting at the San Marcos Hotel in Chandler, April 25-28. ... On this occasion the 1954 members of the Fifty Year Club (Drs. Edward W. Adamson, Douglas; Morris D. Cohen, Tucson; and Emile C. Houle, Nogales) will be honored.
JAMA, Jan 1967; 199: 294: Houle, Emile Cyrus, Phoenix, Ariz; University of Michigan, 1904; died Oct 21, aged 85, of arteriosclerosis.