Dates: 1907-1970.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]. [McLoughlin’s wife, Mary, also shows up in the Brown collection: 11/284.]
McLoughlin, Emmett. People's padre, an autobiography. Beacon Press, 1954.
Emmett McLoughlin was born John Patrick McLoughlin in 1907. He grew up in Sacramento, California, and entered St. Anthony's seminary in Santa Barbara, California. He took the name Emmett during his novitiate in the Franciscan Order. After his ordination in 1933 he was assigned a parish in Phoenix, Arizona, and began work there that would last for 14 years. Time magazine (1948) said that "soon young Father McLoughlin began to be almost as well known in Phoenix as the mayor." During that time he founded and directed St. Monica's Hospital (Phoenix Memorial Hospital), organized a slum clearance campaign, was instrumental in applying for federal funds for the Matthew Henson public housing projects (opened in 1940), was appointed as the first chairman of the Phoenix Housing Authority in 1939, and served as secretary of the state Board of Health. Then his Franciscan superiors charged him with neglect of his priestly duties and ordered him to resign as superintendent of the hospital. McLoughlin decided that his work for the hospital and urban renewal was more important, and that his vow of obedience did not apply. He resigned as a member of the Catholic priesthood in 1948 and remained head of the hospital with the support of its board of directors, most of whom were Catholic. In 1949 he married Mary Davis (Time, 1949). He achieved more national prominence with the publication of his autobiography in 1954. Some Catholics criticize him for not following the vow of obedience he would have taken as a Franciscan. McLoughlin, on the contrary, criticized the Church for requiring young men to make such a vow often with no experience of life outside school and seminary. He also criticized the Catholic parochial school system, and alleged a Roman Catholic plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, criticisms which fed into anti-Catholicism in the 1950s and 1960s. The city of Phoenix named the Emmett McLoughlin Community Training & Education Center in his honor ("City Dedicates", 2006). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_McLoughlin [10/4/2011]
“FDA Okays First Scorpion Sting Antidote” by Robert Longley, About.com Guide August 12, 2011
[ http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2011/08/12/fda-okays-first-scorpion-sting-a... ]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first treatment for the excruciatingly painful sting of the Centruroides or "bark" scorpion - the most commonly encountered scorpion in the nation. ... Comments: Bob Kamman: In his 1954 book People’s Padre, Emmett McLoughlin tells of how scorpion antivenom was available in Mexico in the 1940s, but the FDA would not allow it to be imported. He and his colleagues associated with Phoenix (Arizona) Memorial Hospital organized a smuggling operation to bring the medicine to the United States. In one case the Highway Patrol and Air Force assisted with the delivery by jet of antivenom needed to save a child’s life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. McLoughlin’s book implies that after paperwork requirements were met, the FDA eventually allowed the importation of the Mexican product. Perhaps those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to not remembering the past?
Scorpion smuggling connection with Herbert L. Stahnke (q.v.)?
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]. [McLoughlin’s wife, Mary, also shows up in the Brown collection: 11/284.]
McLoughlin, Emmett. People's padre, an autobiography. Beacon Press, 1954.
Emmett McLoughlin was born John Patrick McLoughlin in 1907. He grew up in Sacramento, California, and entered St. Anthony's seminary in Santa Barbara, California. He took the name Emmett during his novitiate in the Franciscan Order. After his ordination in 1933 he was assigned a parish in Phoenix, Arizona, and began work there that would last for 14 years. Time magazine (1948) said that "soon young Father McLoughlin began to be almost as well known in Phoenix as the mayor." During that time he founded and directed St. Monica's Hospital (Phoenix Memorial Hospital), organized a slum clearance campaign, was instrumental in applying for federal funds for the Matthew Henson public housing projects (opened in 1940), was appointed as the first chairman of the Phoenix Housing Authority in 1939, and served as secretary of the state Board of Health. Then his Franciscan superiors charged him with neglect of his priestly duties and ordered him to resign as superintendent of the hospital. McLoughlin decided that his work for the hospital and urban renewal was more important, and that his vow of obedience did not apply. He resigned as a member of the Catholic priesthood in 1948 and remained head of the hospital with the support of its board of directors, most of whom were Catholic. In 1949 he married Mary Davis (Time, 1949). He achieved more national prominence with the publication of his autobiography in 1954. Some Catholics criticize him for not following the vow of obedience he would have taken as a Franciscan. McLoughlin, on the contrary, criticized the Church for requiring young men to make such a vow often with no experience of life outside school and seminary. He also criticized the Catholic parochial school system, and alleged a Roman Catholic plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln, criticisms which fed into anti-Catholicism in the 1950s and 1960s. The city of Phoenix named the Emmett McLoughlin Community Training & Education Center in his honor ("City Dedicates", 2006). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_McLoughlin [10/4/2011]
“FDA Okays First Scorpion Sting Antidote” by Robert Longley, About.com Guide August 12, 2011
[ http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2011/08/12/fda-okays-first-scorpion-sting-a... ]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first treatment for the excruciatingly painful sting of the Centruroides or "bark" scorpion - the most commonly encountered scorpion in the nation. ... Comments: Bob Kamman: In his 1954 book People’s Padre, Emmett McLoughlin tells of how scorpion antivenom was available in Mexico in the 1940s, but the FDA would not allow it to be imported. He and his colleagues associated with Phoenix (Arizona) Memorial Hospital organized a smuggling operation to bring the medicine to the United States. In one case the Highway Patrol and Air Force assisted with the delivery by jet of antivenom needed to save a child’s life in Albuquerque, New Mexico. McLoughlin’s book implies that after paperwork requirements were met, the FDA eventually allowed the importation of the Mexican product. Perhaps those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to not remembering the past?
Scorpion smuggling connection with Herbert L. Stahnke (q.v.)?
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 11, page(s) 156,159-161,172-173,227,153,262,283,284; volume 12, page(s) 37,38,39
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