Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

Arizona Medical Board record: Arthur D. Bechtel MD; license number: 367; license date: 7/20/1908; medical school: MC GILL UNIV, FAC OF MED; graduation date: 06/12/1908.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
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 328.

Mentioned in the 1953-10-01-03 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.
Probably not[?]: L.D. Beck (q.v.)

Arizona Medical Board record: L. D. Beck MD; license number: 1410; licensed date: 06/07/1936; medical school: UNIV OF OK COLL OF MED, OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma; graduation date: 06/03/1935.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Southwestern Medicine, Phoenix, Ariz., 81: 39-74 (Feb.) 1937, p. 48: Food Poisoning (Allergy?); Gangrenous Appendicitis; Operation; Pulmonary Embolism; Death: Case Report. L. D. Beck, Phoenix, Ariz.

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: appears as "W.C." and "W.S."
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, pages 328-329.

J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1904; XLII: 185: William C. Bedford, M.D. Chicago Medical College, 1874, died recently at his home in Tombstone, Ariz.

~1940-June 22, 1996. See June 25, 1996 Arizona Daily Star obituary.

Arizona Medical Board record: Allan Beigel MD; license date: 07/11/1970; medical school: A EINSTEIN COLL OF MED OF YESHIVA UNIV, Bronx, New York; graduation date: 06/01/1965.

Homeopathic physician located in Phoenix in 1893 and 1896. Graduate of the New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1868. Elected secretary of the Homeopathic Medical Association in Phoenix on Apr 23, 1892. Member of first Territorial Board of Medical Examiners (1897). [http://www.homeoint.org/history/king/1-40.htm]
King, William Harvey. History of homoeopathy and its institutions in America. 1905.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, pages 235, 247, 329.

Bender, George A. A history of Arizona pharmacy. [Glendale, Ariz.] : Arizona Pharmacy Historical Foundation, 1985, pages 34, 61. 1923: Clerk, Owl Drug Co. ~1915: Was this the Bell who was proprietor of Bell Drugs (located on the SE corner of Stone Avenue and Pennington Street)? (See Arizona Historical Society photo AHS BN32961)

J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1902; XXXVIII: 336: Sylvester D. Bell, M.D. Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1874, formerly a practitioner of Butler, Pa., but for the past few years a resident of Arizona, a member of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania and of the American Medical Association, died at his home in Tucson, January 14. He was a presidential elector in 1892, and had held several responsible territorial appointments.

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1928; 91: 899: Thomas Cleland Bell, Tucson, Ariz. ; Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, 1912 ; aged 41 ; died, August 9, of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Farish, Thomas Edwin. History of Arizona, Filmer Bros. Electrotype Co., 1918, volume 5, pages 100-108. (1867 Kansas Pacific Railway’s surveying expeditions…; page 102: “An account of these surveys is contained in a book printed in London, England, in 1870, entitled New Tracks in North America, by William A. Bell, who started out as photographer for one of the parties and afterwards became physician and surgeon for the party.” [pages 102-108 is Mr. Bell’s account of the arrival of the expedition at Fort Bowie…])

Middle initial “M.” or “N.”[?]
ASLAPR Arizona Biographical Database: Bell, William M., Dr.
Source: http://www.lib.az.us/bio/bio_detail.cfm?ID=102680
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: Missouri Med. Col, St. Louis, 1872

Listed as an honorary member in the 2/5/1944 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.

Same person?
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1946; 131: 904: ARMY MEDICAL CORPS OFFICERS RECOMMENDED FOR/OR RELIEVED FROM ACTIVE DUTY. Pennsylvania. Beloff, Lewis. ... Philadelphia.
JAMA, Jun 1988; 259: 3341: BELOFF, Lewis, 75; Philadelphia; Temple University School of Medicine, 1937; died Dec 6, 1987.

Arizona Medical Board record: M. David Ben-Asher MD; license date: 4/21/1962; medical school: U OF BUFFALO, SUNY SCH OF MED & BIOMEDICAL SCI; graduation date: 06/10/1956; address: 4733 N 1st Ave, Tucson; areas of interest: internal medicine and nephrology.
Pima County Medical Society (Tucson, Arizona). Sombrero., December 1984.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

MD? LLD? Middle initial “K.”[?]

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: “Bendell” and “Bendall.”
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, pages 70-71,73, 329.

Annual report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the ... United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1872, page 327: H. Bendell, Esq., Superintendent of Indian Affairs, Prescott, Arizona Territory

Appointed superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital Jun 1, 1941. Arizona Medical Board record: Otto L. Bendheim MD; license date: 7/6/1938; medical school: UNIV OF MI MED SCH, Ann Arbor, Michigan; graduation date: 06/20/1936; address: 5051 N 34th St Ste 1, Phoenix; area of interest: psychiatry.
Arizona State Hospital. Milestones; a history of seventy-five years of progress ... 1887-1962. [Phoenix? 1962?], page 10.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].