Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

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Fee, Wesley Street

Son of dentist Arch G. Fee (q.v.)

Mentioned in the 1951-11-13 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Wesley S. Fee MD; license date: 10/21/1947; medical school: WASHINGTON UNIV SCH OF MED; graduation date: 09/26/1944; address: 2421 E 6th St, Tucson; area of interest: therapeutic radiology.

Felix, Edmundo Fernando

Mentioned in the 1954-02-09 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Name also appears as “Edmund.” Arizona Medical Board record: Edmundo F. Felix MD; license date: 8/7/1951; medical school: MED COLL OF WI, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; graduation date: 06/11/1950; area of interest: family practice.

JAMA, Apr 1989; 261: 2270: FELIX, Edmundo F., 75; Tucson, Ariz; Medical College of Wisconsin, 1950; certified by the American Board of Family Practice; died October 19,1988.

Fenner, Hiram W.

Came to Bisbee in 1882. Practiced in Tucson from 1883 until 1922. ArMA president: 1901. Dates: 1859-1929. Is said he designed the “Roundhouse” sanatorium adjacent to St. Mary’s Hospital. Utilized open air treatment for tuberculosis based on knowledge he gained observing various clinics and physicians in Europe.
PCMS Centennial Program. 10-9-2004.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 140.

Ferguson, George

Representative of the Tucson Medical Center. Mentioned in the 12/14/1943 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Rector of St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church.
See Grubb, Portrait of Progress.

Ferguson, Leigh

Perhaps Leigh Ferguson was the son (or other close relative) of Charles Ferguson (q.v.).
Mentioned in the 1952-11-06-01 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Report of the Board of Censors on its October 13th meeting to consider the case of Leigh Ferguson vs. Dr. T.S. Wittels was read by the Secretary. Dr. Lewis moved that this report be approved; motion seconded by Dr. Beaton. “

Ferguson, Ray

Appointed superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital Mar 8, 1906-1908 and Aug 15, 1921.
Arizona State Hospital. Milestones; a history of seventy-five years of progress ... 1887-1962. [Phoenix? 1962?], page 10.
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, pages 205, 341: (“in Yuma County, 1911”)

Ferguson, Robert

ArMA president: 1916. Dates: 1870-1939.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 147.
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 341.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), pages 56, 57 [portrait], 59.

Ferrin, Theresa Marx

'Angel' helped heal early Tucson by Jan Cleere, Arizona Daily Star, August 16, 2014: ... Born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1846, Therese and her family immigrated to San Francisco around 1874. A milliner by trade, she also had extensive knowledge of medicinal herbs and plants that she probably brought with her from Germany.

Fetterman, Wilford Washington

Homeopathic physician located in Tombstone in 1890. Graduate of the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia in 1872. [http://www.homeoint.org/history/king/1-40.htm]
King, William Harvey. History of homoeopathy and its institutions in America. 1905.

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 341.

Fielding, Romaine

Dates: May 22, 1867- Dec. 15, 1927.

Eckhardt, Joseph P. The king of the movies: film pioneer Siegmund Lubin. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1997, page 129: Though [Fielding] had been born William Grant Blandin, in Iowa, he claimed to be the son of wealthy Spanish and Italian-French parents living on the island of Corsica. He also claimed to have had extensive medical training in prestigious medical schools. In fact he had none, though this had not deterred him from opening a medical practice in Kansas City, Missouri, under one of his several pseudonyms.

Fife, Karl L.

J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1945; 129: 748: ARMY MEDICAL CORPS OFFICERS RECOMMENDED FOR/OR RELIEVED FROM ACTIVE DUTY. Arizona. ... Fife, Karl L.. Capt, Duncan.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1948; 138: 522: Karl L. Fife, Lordsburg, N. M. ; University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, 1935; served overseas during World War II ; on the staff of the Lordsburg Hospital; died May 23, aged 45, in a glider crash.