Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

Homeopathic physician located in Tucson in 1893 and 1896. Began homeopathic practice in 1870. [http://www.homeoint.org/history/king/1-40.htm]
Arrives in 1886 as Tucson’s first homeopathic physician. He practices until 1914.
See 1904-1920-030: “Name: Pilling H. H.; PO Address: Tucson; College: Hahn. Med Coll; Date of gradn: 1870; Date of License: 1903”
King, William Harvey. History of homoeopathy and its institutions in America. 1905.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930
Nash, Steve. “Medical Progress in Arizona…”

Mentioned in June 19, 1914 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 (1904-1920-116).

Mentioned in the 11/26/1937 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. Piness read a paper on ‘The Practical Aspects of Allergy in General Practice’.”

Probable match:
GEORGE PINESS. STUDY OF TWO HUNDRED AND TWO CASES OF HAY-FEVER. J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1925; 84: 584 - 587.
GEORGE PINESS; HYMAN MILLER. ALLERGY OF THE UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1939; 113: 734 - 737.

Of the Desert Sanatorium. Mentioned in the 11/15/1932 and 2/13/1934 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Read papers on “Changes in Morphology in Blood in Certain Types of Blood Dyscrasia” and “History and Present Status of B.C.G. Vaccination.”

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

J Am Med Assoc. 1923;81(1):58: John Kemp Warfield Piper, Russellville, Ky. ; University of Maryland School of Medicine, 1893 ; member of the Kentucky State Medical Association; aged 52; died, June 12, at Phoenix, Ariz., of pneumonia.

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

The Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust was created in 1995 by Virginia Galvin Piper, the widow of Motorola founder Paul Galvin. Ten years after Galvin's death in 1959, she married Kenneth Piper, vice president of Motorola, who passed away in 1975. Following Virginia Piper's death in 1999, the trust received $589 million from her estate, making it the largest foundation in Arizona and one of the one hundred largest in the nation. Since opening its doors to the public, in September 2000, it has awarded grants totaling $140 million.

Son of Dr. J. M. Pirtle, a prominent physician of Clarkesville, Tennessee. Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (p. 748-749).

December 17, 1887-1950. Architect: State School for the Deaf; Homer Smith Drug Company building; Karl Barfield Sanatorium; Research Institute for the Desert Sanatorium; Thomas-Davis Clinic building
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), pages 175-176.

See also: http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/placesinthesun/royPlace.php

Visitor from the University of Iowa. Mentioned in the 11/1/1939 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.

Arrived in Phoenix in October, 1896. ArMA president: 1906. Dates: 1864-1919.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 143.
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 364: “Earnest”

Professor of pediatrics at Tulane University. Mentioned in the 1949-11-08-01 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Name also appears as “Ralph N. Platou.”

Arizona Medical Board record: W. E. Platt MD; license number: 41; license issued: 05/27/1903; medical school: UNIV OF LOUISVILLE SCH OF MED; graduation date: 06/30/1893.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: born December 10, 1859, died November 13, 1941.
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 364.

Arizona Medical Board record: Charles N. Ploussard MD; license number: 1012; licensed date: 04/06/1926; medical school: ST LOUIS UNIV SCH OF MED, St. Louis, Missouri; graduation date: 05/31/1922; area of interest: general surgery
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

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

Mentioned in the 10/7/1941 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954: “Dr. Carrell then opened the scientific program introducing Dr. Dozois who presented Dr. Norman Plummer’s ‘Film on Pneumonia’.”

J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1939; 112: 1484: Treatment of Pneumonia with Sulfapyridine (Lantern Demonstration). Herbert K. Ensworth and Norman H. Plummer, New York. [AMA Ninetieth Annual Session, St. Louis, Mo. Section on Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Wednesday, May 17 -- 2 p.m.]