Arizona Medical Board record: Van A. Smelker MD; license number: 368; license date: 7/20/1908; medical school: NWU, FEINBERG SCH OF MED, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 06/15/1905; address: 123 S Stone Ave, Tucson.
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 371.
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 719.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), page 536.
Born at Dodgeville, Wisconsin, on September 11, 1882. Married Marie Wrotnowski of Nogales, whose father was a colonel in the American Civil War. Dr. Smelker is a graduate of the medical department of the Northwestern University at Chicago, and had two years experience in Wessley Hospital, in the same city, as an interne. He served as an assistant in the Southern Pacific hospitals in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, being for one year under the famous surgeon, Dr. George Goodfellow. Local surgeon for the S. P. of Mexico and for St. Joseph's Hospital. Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (p. 188).
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “…began practicing in Nogales in 1908, moving to Tucson in 1931… He was personal physician for two of Mexico’s presidents, Plutarco Elias Calles and Alvardo Obregon, and still attends their families.”
A. V. Smelker, Nogales, Ariz.Davies-Colley Flap Operation in Cleft Palates. Southwestern Medicine, El Paso, Texas. December, 1917, 1, No. 12, p. 34.
V. A. Smelker, Nogales, Ariz. Cheiloplasty of Lower Lip for Neglected Carcinoma. Southwestern Medicine, El Paso, Texas August, 1918, 3, No. 8, p. 17.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1918; 71: 472: COMMISSIONS ACCEPTED, MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS, U. S. ARMY. ARIZONA. Nogales -- Smelker, V. A.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1918; 71: 668: ORDERS TO OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY. Arizona. To Camp Travis, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, base hospital, Capt. V. A. SMELKER, Nogales.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1918; 71: 1148: ORDERS TO OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY. Arizona. To Camp Custer, Mich., base hospital, from Camp Travis, Capt. V. A. SMELKER, Nogales.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1919; 73: 539: HONORABLE DISCHARGES, MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY. Arizona. Nogale [sic] -- Smelker, V. A. (M.) [=major].
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1927; 89: 2135: To the Editor : -- I frequently encounter in stool examinations an infestation of Lamblia intestinalis. Some of these patients display constipation and diarrhea, which are said to occur in individuals housing this parasite, I have not been satisfied with my efforts at their eradication. Is there any specific anthelmintic for this parasite, and, if there is, what treatments afford the best results? ... A. Smelker, M.D., Nogales, Ariz.
JAMA, Sep 1969; 209: 1916: Smelker, Van Archibald; Tucson, Ariz; Northwestern, 1905; died in St. Mary's Hospital June 26, aged 86; cause unknown.
Same person[?]:
En Nogales, Arizona, ejercían por aquellos tiempos el Dr. A.L. Gusteter Walker en el año de 1902, el Dr. Van A. Smelker en 1909 y un Dr. de apellido Smith.
Source: Mascareñas S., Enrique. El Nogales de Ayer, Capítulo VIII: Servicios asistenciales [http://www.musicaehistoria.com/el_nogales_de_ayer_cap_ocho.htm]
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 371.
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 719.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 4 (Arizona biography), page 536.
Born at Dodgeville, Wisconsin, on September 11, 1882. Married Marie Wrotnowski of Nogales, whose father was a colonel in the American Civil War. Dr. Smelker is a graduate of the medical department of the Northwestern University at Chicago, and had two years experience in Wessley Hospital, in the same city, as an interne. He served as an assistant in the Southern Pacific hospitals in Sonora and Sinaloa, Mexico, being for one year under the famous surgeon, Dr. George Goodfellow. Local surgeon for the S. P. of Mexico and for St. Joseph's Hospital. Source: Who's Who in Arizona. Volume I. 1913 (p. 188).
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 4 E. Congress St., Tucson.
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “…began practicing in Nogales in 1908, moving to Tucson in 1931… He was personal physician for two of Mexico’s presidents, Plutarco Elias Calles and Alvardo Obregon, and still attends their families.”
A. V. Smelker, Nogales, Ariz.Davies-Colley Flap Operation in Cleft Palates. Southwestern Medicine, El Paso, Texas. December, 1917, 1, No. 12, p. 34.
V. A. Smelker, Nogales, Ariz. Cheiloplasty of Lower Lip for Neglected Carcinoma. Southwestern Medicine, El Paso, Texas August, 1918, 3, No. 8, p. 17.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1918; 71: 472: COMMISSIONS ACCEPTED, MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS, U. S. ARMY. ARIZONA. Nogales -- Smelker, V. A.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1918; 71: 668: ORDERS TO OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY. Arizona. To Camp Travis, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, base hospital, Capt. V. A. SMELKER, Nogales.
J Am Med Assoc, Oct 1918; 71: 1148: ORDERS TO OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY. Arizona. To Camp Custer, Mich., base hospital, from Camp Travis, Capt. V. A. SMELKER, Nogales.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1919; 73: 539: HONORABLE DISCHARGES, MEDICAL CORPS, U. S. ARMY. Arizona. Nogale [sic] -- Smelker, V. A. (M.) [=major].
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1927; 89: 2135: To the Editor : -- I frequently encounter in stool examinations an infestation of Lamblia intestinalis. Some of these patients display constipation and diarrhea, which are said to occur in individuals housing this parasite, I have not been satisfied with my efforts at their eradication. Is there any specific anthelmintic for this parasite, and, if there is, what treatments afford the best results? ... A. Smelker, M.D., Nogales, Ariz.
JAMA, Sep 1969; 209: 1916: Smelker, Van Archibald; Tucson, Ariz; Northwestern, 1905; died in St. Mary's Hospital June 26, aged 86; cause unknown.
Same person[?]:
En Nogales, Arizona, ejercían por aquellos tiempos el Dr. A.L. Gusteter Walker en el año de 1902, el Dr. Van A. Smelker en 1909 y un Dr. de apellido Smith.
Source: Mascareñas S., Enrique. El Nogales de Ayer, Capítulo VIII: Servicios asistenciales [http://www.musicaehistoria.com/el_nogales_de_ayer_cap_ocho.htm]
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History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673]
volume 6, page(s) 127-129
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