Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1938; 110: 1373: The society was addressed at a special meeting in February by L. E. Detrick, research assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, on "Citri-Culture in Its Relation to Health."

[Orville Harry Brown, M.D. collections [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673] newspaper clipping (vol. 2, p. 127) may be referring to the same event.

[formerly at the Department of Pharmacology, University of Southern California School of Medicine]

Name also appears as “Detweiler” (see, for example, the 11/10/1925 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954).
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930

D. W. Detwiler, Tucson, Ariz. Paranasal Sinus Diseases and Dry Southwest. U. S. Veterans' Bur. M. Bull., Washington, D. C. 4: (Nov.) 1928, p. 929.
D. W. Detwiler. Mishap with Lipiodol. U. S. Veterans' Bur. M. Bull., Washington, D. C., 5:(June) 1929, pp. 460ff.

Name appears as “DeVore” and “De Vore.”
See also: McClintock, James H. Arizona, Prehistoric, Aboriginal, Pioneer, Modern; the Nation's Youngest Commonwealth within a Land of Ancient Culture. Chicago: The S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1916 (aka Arizona, the Youngest State), volume 3 (Biographical), page 487: Wesley G. De Vore; born in Illiniois in 1868; Chicago College of Dental Surgery, 1891; located in Tempe in 1897; practiced in Oak Park IL, California and Tempe.

January 11, 1897 - November 13, 1955. 1951-10-04-03 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “…DeVotos’ article in Harper’s…”
Biography: Stegner, Wallace. The Uneasy Chair, 1974.

DeVoto, Bernard. “Letter to a Family Doctor,” Harper's Magazine, 202 (January, 1951), pp. 56-60.

See also:
AS A MAN THINKETH. J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1951; 145: 232 - 234.
F. B. Exner. CRITICISM OF DEVOTO'S ARTICLE IN HARPER'S MAGAZINE. J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1951; 145: 250.

Mentioned in the 1953-06-10-04 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. Manning - This could still be on a State level, for the reason that the Council voted the money to help carry that program in Phoenix. $2,000.00. Their $2,000.00 is designated for retelecast and for use of DeVries. They are picking up the tab until Webster increases the program to 30 minutes.”
Medical editor of The Arizona Republic.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

"DeWitt," "De Witt," or "Dewitt"[?]
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 338.

Mentioned in the 10/12/1948 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: George M. Deyoung MD; license date: 10/4/1947; medical school: RUSH MED COLL OF RUSH UNIV, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/14/1932.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Blood Grouping Laboratory and Hematology Research Laboratory of the Children’s Medical Center, Boston, Mass. Mentioned in the 1953-10-01-03 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. See Oct 2002 obituary in Transfusion (42:1381-1382).

JAMA, Feb 2000; 283: 1075: DIAMOND, Louis K., 97; Los Angeles, Calif; Harvard Medical School, 1927; certified by the American Board of Pediatrics; died June 14, 1999.

Sidney J. Diamond or Sydney A. Diamond?
Listed as an honorary member on 1940 PCMS letterhead.

Sidney J. Diamond:
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1946; 131: 836: ARMY MEDICAL CORPS OFFICERS RECOMMENDED FOR/OR RELIEVED FROM ACTIVE DUTY. Pennsylvania. Diamond, Sidney J. ... Woodlyn.
JAMA, May 1990; 263: 2379: DIAMOND, Sidney J., 80, Osprey, Fla; Medizinische Fakultät, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria, 1937; died September 27,1989.

Sydney A. Diamond:

Correct spelling?
2/15/1909 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 – listed as present.

Any connection?
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1884; II: 712: THE FOLLOWING IS THE OFFICIAL LIST OF DELEGATES AND MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE UPON THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IN WASHINGTON, MAY 6-7-8-9, 1884. ... CONNECTICUT. State Medical Society. ... Frederick L. Dibbel, ....

Dibble possibly?
Martha Cleveland Dibble, Kansas City, Mo. ; Woman's Medical College, Chicago, 1885; died ~1944

Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 432 N. 4th Ave., Tucson. Arizona Medical Board record: Charles H. Dickinson MD; license issued: 04/06/1933 (at age 54); medical school: LOYOLA UNIV OF CHICAGO STRITCH SCH OF MED, Maywood, Illinois; graduation date: 09/22/1917.

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

Mentioned in the 4//1946 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.

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. ... Speakers from out of the state will include Drs. James A. Dickson, Cleveland, on orthopedics ; ....

Pallbearer at Dr. Charles T. Dulin's funeral (see 1921-1925-050-01): “Active pallbearers at the funeral were: Drs. J.I. Butler, I.E. Huffman, C.A. Thomas and H.H. Ballinger, O.S. McPherson, Ed Dietrick, Harold Hartley and John C. Haynes.” (Dr. Dulin died January 20, 1922.)
Name appears in obituary as Ed Dietrick.