Personal Names in Arizona Medical History

Arizona Medical Board record: Donald Mesec MD; license issued: 01/19/1976; medical school: NEW YORK MED COLL; graduation date: 06/04/1963.

JAMA, Mar 1995; 273: 744b: MESEC, Donald Francis, 57; Kingman, Ariz; New York Medical College, 1963; certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology; died July 2, 1994.

State chemist and bacteriologist, University of Arizona.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 14.

Clinical psychologist at the VA. Spelled as “Gildase E. Metour” in the 1953-03-05-07 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.

Born ~1877. Died May 26, 1958. Appointed superintendent of the Arizona State Hospital Jan 6, 1941 and Oct 16, 1944 and Jan 22, 1947.
Arizona Medical Board record: Jeremiah H. Metzger MD; license number: 454; license date: 10/19/1911; medical school: RUSH MED COLL OF RUSH UNIV, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/21/1901. Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 123 S. Stone Ave., Tucson.
Arizona State Hospital. Milestones; a history of seventy-five years of progress ... 1887-1962. [Phoenix? 1962?], page 10.
Members of the PCMS 1904-1930

Mentioned in the 1952-12-01-03 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.

PCMS Centennial Program. 10-9-2004 (q.v.)
[Which Charles H. Meyer is this?]

The Meyer of Meyer Drug Store, Tucson’s first drug store. […or Meyer’s Drug Store?]

1884-1974. Of the Hooper Foundation in California. See http://history.library.ucsf.edu/meyer.html. Mentioned in the 11/12/1946 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. “Carl” in the 1954-03-04-11 minutes.

J Am Med Assoc, Jan 1930; 94: 190 : “…Karl F. Meyer, Ph.D., president of the American Association of Medical Milk Commissions, ...”

~1932-7/21/2006. Arizona Medical Board record: Karl L. Meyer MD; license issued: 04/21/1962; medical school: LOYOLA UNIV OF CHICAGO STRITCH SCH OF MED, Maywood, Illinois; graduation date: 06/12/1957; address: 480 N Morley Ave, Nogales AZ 85621-2930.

See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]: relieved at Fort Whipple by Thadius Mather Ames (q.v).
Quebbeman, Frances E. Medicine in territorial Arizona. Phoenix : Arizona Historical Foundation, 1966, page 358.

Mentioned in the 5/00/1940 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.

J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1940; 114: 1466: The meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association will be held at Tucson, April 17-20, with headquarters at the Santa Rita Hotel and under the presidency of Dr. Charles S. Smith, Nogales. Included on the program are : Dr. William S. Middleton, Madison, Wis., Masquerades of Bronchiogenic Carcinoma….

Mentioned in the 2/12/1946 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Initialism “N.K.” also appears (12/18/1947).
Arizona Medical Board record: Miro K. Mihran MD; license date: 10/20/1951; medical school: UNIV OF MI MED SCH, Ann Arbor, Michigan; graduation date: 06/29/1916..

Mentioned in the 12/13/1948 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Arizona Medical Board record: Venzel R. Mikan MD; license date: 10/4/1948; medical school: Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific, San Francisco, California; graduation date: 06/12/1941.

JAMA, Mar 1984; 251: 1357: MIKAN, V. Robert, 75, Saginaw, Mich; Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, 1941; died May 10,1983.

Arizona Medical Board record: John S. Mikell MD; license date: 10/7/1936; medical school: MED UNIV OF SC COLL OF MED, Charleston, South Carolina; graduation date: 06/02/1932. From a May 1950 advertisement in Arizona Medicine: “ENT, Bronchoscopy | 1811 E. Speedway”
Pima County Medical Society (Tucson, Arizona). Sombrero, November 1984.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].

Of the Pan-American Clinical Institute. Mentioned in the 1951-10-04-02 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954. Appears as “Mikesell” and “Mikesel.” See http://tobaccodocuments.org/tplp/MNATPRIV00025929-5958.html for verification as “Mikesell.” In the Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 initially referred to as “Dr.,” later as “Mr.”