Martin, Ancil E.

Ear, eye, nose and throat specialist. Arrived in Phoenix in 1892. ArMA president: 1894. Dates: 1861-1926. From ArMA website: Practicing in Arizona from 1892 to 1926, Dr. Martin had several firsts. He was the first ophthalmologist to locate and practice in Arizona. In 1898 Dr. Martin brought the first x-ray apparatus to Arizona. He was the first doctor to report cases of "rabbit septicemia," later to be called tularemia. Tularemia is an infectious disease of wild animals, such as rabbits and squirrels, that is occasionally transmitted to humans. Dr. Martin later was given the name "father of tularemia." Dr. Martin was president of ArMA in 1894. http://www.azmedassn.org/martin.html
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 137.
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 357-358, etc.
A historical and biographical record of the Territory of Arizona. Chicago : McFarland & Poole, 1896, pages 603-604: ANCIL MARTIN, M. D. In these days it is an indisputable fact that the tendency of medical and surgical research is turned toward specialization. It would be absurd to say that a physician will not naturally take a deeper interest in one branch of his practice than another, or that, taking such an interest, he will not devote more attention to the study of that branch than to the study of the others. He may not advertise himself as a specialist, but the people soon find out that he is and he is employed because he is. This inclination of mind led Dr. Ancil Martin to give special study to eye, ear, throat and lung trouble, and as a consequence he is sought by those thus afflicted more often, perhaps, than many other physicians, though he is not an old physician and has not been long in practice here. He was born in Delaware County, Iowa, March 11, 1861, in the town of Delhi, and is a son of Ancil and Anna (McKinzie) Martin, the former a native of New York and the latter of Canada. The father was a contractor and early moved to Iowa, where he resided many years. Later he moved to Los Angeles, California, and resides in that city at the present time. Ancil Martin, Jr., grew to manhood in his native county and received his education at Beloit, Wisconsin, and later at Ann Arbor, Michigan. He began the study of medicine and graduated at Rush Medical College. Chicago, in 1885. Following this he located in Pittsburg, Penn., and remained there one year as assistant to Dr. W. H. Daly. From there he went to Marshalltown, Iowa, practiced there six years, and while there was president of the Iowa Medical Society. He then took a post-graduate course in New York City, and in 1892 came to Phoenix, Arizona, where he has built up a good practice. He has been president of the County Medical Society and also the Territorial Society. Socially he is a Knight Templar Mason. The Doctor was married November 12, 1895, to Miss Mariam Talbot, a native of Chicago, Illinois.
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 469.

J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1901; XXXVII: 1479: Arizona Academy of Medicine. -- The annual meeting of the Academy was held at Phoenix, November 7. Dr. Ancil Martin was elected president ; Dr. John W. Foss, vice-president, and Dr. Palmer, secretary-treasurer.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1909; LIII: 228: ARIZONA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Annual Meeting, held at Prescott, May 19-20, 1909. ... Dr. Ancil Martin, Phoenix : Pneumococcus infection is one of the most common in conjunctivitis. Infections of the conjunctival sack are most dangerous in the abnormal conditions of the eye. Microscopic examinations of the conjunctival secretions is very essential to determine the safety of operative treatment.
J Am Med Assoc. 1926;86(15):1138: ARIZONA. State Medical Meeting. The annual meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association will be held at Globe, April 26-28, under the presidency of Dr. Roderick D. Kennedy, Globe, and
with the Gila County Medical Society acting as hosts; among the speakers will be ... Dr. Ancil E. Martin, Phoenix, "Tularemia"...

Southwestern Medicine, Aug 1926; 10 (8): 352-353. Ancil Martin (1861-1926. [obituary]. Died Aug 2, 1926. ...Dr. Martin graduated from Rush Medical College in 1885, and after one year as assistant to Dr. William H. Daly, of Pittsburgh and further training in the specialties of the eye, ear, nose and throat, taken in New York City, he moved to Iowa where he practiced until coming to Phoenix in 1891. ...Dr. Martin described the first cases of tularemia on record. ... A casual remark, also during the last year, brought to light the fact that Dr. Martin brought the first x-ray tube to Arizona. This was in 1898, less than two years after the discovery of the x-ray. A coil to operate the tube was made in Phoenix, though this was soon replaced by a static machine brought here by Dr. H.E. Stroud, who recently died in Los Angeles. Dr. Martin produced documentary evidence to substantiate the fact that he was the pioneer roentgenologist, as well as the first and leading ophthalmologist of the state, but it was characteristic of his modesty and unassuming life that he watched many years of x-ray development pass and only a direct statement, known to him to be incorrect, about the first x-ray work done in Arizona, brought forth his rightful claim to priority in this matter. ...

J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1926; 87: 687: Ancil Martin; Phoenix, Ariz. ; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1885; past president of the Arizona State Medical Association and the Maricopa County Medical Society ; member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and OtoLaryngology; formerly secretary of the Arizona State Board of Medical Examiners ; on the staff of St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died, August 4 of acute nephritis, aged 65.