Watkins, William Warner

1883-1956. Arrived in Arizona about 1907; moved to Phoenix in 1908. ArMA president: 1918 – and as ArMA Secretary in 1941 (see 4/8/1941 minutes)? Founded Pathological Laboratory in 1914; about 1930 still one of four directors including Drs. Harlan P. Mills, Clarence N. Boynton and William J. Horspool. In the 4/14/1942 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954 listed as the Secretary of the Arizona Industrial Commission’s Industrial Relations Committee.
Arizona Medical Board record: W. Warner Watkins MD; license number: 305; license date: 6/15/1906; medical school: MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA; graduation date: 05/15/1906; area of interest: radiology.
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 145.
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, pages 280-181, 377.
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), pages -471.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), pages 125-126.

Chest 1941;7;pages 105, 118: Tuberculosis Pioneers in Arizona: ...
W. WARNER WATKINS, M.D., 1883- . Dr. Watkins was born in Keysville, Charlotte County, Virginia, October 30, 1883. He was graduated in 1908 from Medical College of Virginia and was licensed in the State of Arizona, June 15, 1906. The same year he came to Arizona as contract surgeon for the Shannan Copper Company at Metcalf, remaining there until 1907 when he came to Phoenix and engaged in private practice. After five years in general practice, he specialized in tuberculosis three years, and then entered the special work of clinical laboratory and roentgenology, founding the
Pathological Laboratory in 1914. He was early interested in the treatment of tuberculosis, and in 1909 presented a paper to the Arizona Medical Association on "Immunity and Tuberculosis." In 1912, he delivered the annual essay to the Arizona Medical Association on the subject "Tuberculosis, A Disease of the Individual." In 1912 he used artificial pneumothorax for treatment of tuberculosis. This was possibly the first time
that it was used in the State of Arizona, although there is some question whether Dr. R. W. Craig may not have used this once or twice earlier following his association with Dr. John B. Murphy. In 1913 Dr. Watkins presented a paper to the Arizona Medical Association on "Artificial Pneumothorax in Pulmonary Tuberculosis." He was editor of the Arizona Medical Journal from its start in 1913 until it merged with Southwestern Medicine in 1917, and has been the editor of Southwestern Medicine. He is a member of Maricopa County Medical Society of which he was secretary from 1909 to 1915 and president in 1916. He is a member of the Arizona State Medical Society of which he was president in 1918 of the Arizona Territorial Medical Association of which he was secretary in 1912-1913, Medical and Surgical Association of the Southwest of which he was president in 1922, and has served as secretary 1924 He belongs to the Pacific Coast Roentgen... [includes photo]
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J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1956; 161: 1404: Watkins, William Warner; Phoenix, Ariz.; born in Keysville, Va., Oct. 30, 1883; Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, 1906; secretary in 1912-1913, and again in 1941-1943, of the Arizona State Medical Association, of which he was president in 1918-1919; helped reorganize the Maricopa County Medical Society, serving at various times as its president, secretary, and librarian; member of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1924; in 1914 became a charter member of the Medical and Surgical Association of the Southwest, an organization that later became the Southwestern Medical Association, serving as vice-president in 1919, as president in 1920, and as secretary from 1924 to 1935; in 1912 aided in the organization of the Arizona Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, now known as the Arizona State Tuberculosis and Health Association, serving as its president in 1914 and its treasurer for some 25 years; life member of the American College of Physicians and served as its governor for Arizona for 10 years; member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Roentgen Ray Society and from 1921 to 1923 served that organization as its secretary and member of the council; member of the Radiological Society of North America and for two terms vice-president; one of the charter members of the American College of Radiology, and a member of its first board of chancellors; member of the American Trudeau Society; specialist certified by the American Board of Radiology; associated with St. Luke's, St. Joseph, and Good Samaritan hospitals; for many years served on the board of directors of the Y. M. C. A., and for two years served as its president; from 1912 to 1916 editor of the Arizona Medical Journal, which in 1922 merged with Southwestern Medicine, became editor-in-chief of the combined journal, a position he held until 1935; at one time was on the editorial board of Radiology; died April 10, aged 72, of carcinoma of the sigmoid.