Arrived in Arizona about 1911. [Health seeker: TB]. ArMA president: 1929. Dates: 1877-1948. Associated with the Tucson, Arizona, Sanatorium; St. Mary’s Hospital and Sanatorium; Barfield’s Sanatorium; St. Luke’s In-The-Desert; and Anson’s Rest Home. Arizona Medical Board record: Samuel H. Watson MD; license number: 467; license date: 4/25/1912; medical school: RUSH MED COLL OF RUSH UNIV, Chicago, Illinois; graduation date: 05/25/1899.
Middle name sometimes appears as “Hume.”
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 153.
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 378.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), pages 79-80.
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “Dr. S.H. Watson came to Tucson in 1912 and in 1919 established the first clinical laboratory where doctors might have analyses made. Dr. Charles S. Kibler directed the laboratory for a time. Tucson hospitals had their own private laboratories, but prior to 1919 physicians had sometimes sent specimens to Phoenix.”
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 110 S. Scott St., Tucson.
Watson, Samuel H. Some suggestions concerning the use of heliotherapy in tuberculosis. Southwestern Medicine, Sep 1926; 10 (9): 379-382.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1903; XLI: 802: Benton County (Iowa) Medical Society. Seventy-five per cent, of the physicians of Benton County met at Vinton, September 8, and organized a county medical society in affiliation with the state and National organizations. The following officers were elected: Dr. Marion Meredith, Vinton, president; Dr. Samuel H. Watson, Blairstown, vicepresident; Dr. John E. Luckey, Vinton, secretary; Dr. Clark C. Griffin, Jr., Vinton, treasurer; Drs. Clark C. Griffin and Jay P. Whitney, Vinton, and Irvin S. Boles, Shellsburg, censors, and Dr. James McMorris, Belle Plaine, delegate to the state society.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1907; XLIX: 609: Iowa. Dr. Samuel H. Watson, Blairstown, is taking preventive treatment for hydrophobia at the Pasteur Institute, Chicago.
SAMUEL H. WATSON. THE USE AND ABUSE OF HELIOTHERAPY IN TUBERCULOSIS. J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1926; 87: 1026 - 1031.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1929; 92: 1604: At the annual meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association, Prescott, April 18-20, Dr. Samuel H. Watson, Tucson, was made president; Dr. Joseph M. Greer, Phoenix, president-elect; Dr. Harry A. Reese, Yuma, vice president; Dr. Clarence E. Yount, Prescott, treasurer, and Dr. Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, secretary.
THE CASE OF ASA BRUNSON VS. MORRIS FISHBEIN. J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1939; 113: 225: TESTIMONY OF DR. SAMUEL H. WATSON : DIRECT EXAMINATION By Mr. Reynolds: Samuel H. Watson, Tucson, Ariz., a physician, stated that he had been at Tucson since 1911. He is associated with the Tucson Clinic, a group of physicians to practice medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1899, then went to Iowa and practiced medicine for twelve years in general practice. Then he went to Tucson, as he had tuberculosis. After he recovered his health he decided to limit his work to internal medicine and, living in a health resort like that, a great part of the work is disease of the chest in internal medicine. Nearly every summer he takes at least two months off and makes it his business to call on other men doing work with tuberculosis and in sanatoriums. He is past president of the county medical association, member and past president of the state medical association; member and past president of the Arizona Anti-Tuberculosis Association; member and past director of the National Tuberculosis Association ; member of the American Sanatorium Association; member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Tuberculosis and the American College of Tuberculosis Physicians, and certified to the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine. He has written articles for publication on tuberculosis in various journals....
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1948; 137: 656: Samuel Humes Watson, Tucson, Ariz.; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1899; past president of the Arizona State Medical Association and the Benton County (Ia.) Medical Society; fellow of the American College of Physicians; member of the American College of Chest Physicians and of the American Association for the Study of Allergy; specialist certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine; affiliated with the Barfield Sanatorium and St. Mary's Hospital and Sanatorium; died February 5, aged 70, of cerebral hemorrhage.
Middle name sometimes appears as “Hume.”
Kennedy, John W. Arizona Medical Association : the first hundred years, 1892-1991. Flagstaff, Ariz. : Heritage Publishers, 1993, page 153.
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 378.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), pages 79-80.
Per PCMS 50th Anniversary program: “Dr. S.H. Watson came to Tucson in 1912 and in 1919 established the first clinical laboratory where doctors might have analyses made. Dr. Charles S. Kibler directed the laboratory for a time. Tucson hospitals had their own private laboratories, but prior to 1919 physicians had sometimes sent specimens to Phoenix.”
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 110 S. Scott St., Tucson.
Watson, Samuel H. Some suggestions concerning the use of heliotherapy in tuberculosis. Southwestern Medicine, Sep 1926; 10 (9): 379-382.
J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1903; XLI: 802: Benton County (Iowa) Medical Society. Seventy-five per cent, of the physicians of Benton County met at Vinton, September 8, and organized a county medical society in affiliation with the state and National organizations. The following officers were elected: Dr. Marion Meredith, Vinton, president; Dr. Samuel H. Watson, Blairstown, vicepresident; Dr. John E. Luckey, Vinton, secretary; Dr. Clark C. Griffin, Jr., Vinton, treasurer; Drs. Clark C. Griffin and Jay P. Whitney, Vinton, and Irvin S. Boles, Shellsburg, censors, and Dr. James McMorris, Belle Plaine, delegate to the state society.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1907; XLIX: 609: Iowa. Dr. Samuel H. Watson, Blairstown, is taking preventive treatment for hydrophobia at the Pasteur Institute, Chicago.
SAMUEL H. WATSON. THE USE AND ABUSE OF HELIOTHERAPY IN TUBERCULOSIS. J Am Med Assoc, Sep 1926; 87: 1026 - 1031.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1929; 92: 1604: At the annual meeting of the Arizona State Medical Association, Prescott, April 18-20, Dr. Samuel H. Watson, Tucson, was made president; Dr. Joseph M. Greer, Phoenix, president-elect; Dr. Harry A. Reese, Yuma, vice president; Dr. Clarence E. Yount, Prescott, treasurer, and Dr. Delamere F. Harbridge, Phoenix, secretary.
THE CASE OF ASA BRUNSON VS. MORRIS FISHBEIN. J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1939; 113: 225: TESTIMONY OF DR. SAMUEL H. WATSON : DIRECT EXAMINATION By Mr. Reynolds: Samuel H. Watson, Tucson, Ariz., a physician, stated that he had been at Tucson since 1911. He is associated with the Tucson Clinic, a group of physicians to practice medicine. He graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago in 1899, then went to Iowa and practiced medicine for twelve years in general practice. Then he went to Tucson, as he had tuberculosis. After he recovered his health he decided to limit his work to internal medicine and, living in a health resort like that, a great part of the work is disease of the chest in internal medicine. Nearly every summer he takes at least two months off and makes it his business to call on other men doing work with tuberculosis and in sanatoriums. He is past president of the county medical association, member and past president of the state medical association; member and past president of the Arizona Anti-Tuberculosis Association; member and past director of the National Tuberculosis Association ; member of the American Sanatorium Association; member of the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Tuberculosis and the American College of Tuberculosis Physicians, and certified to the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine. He has written articles for publication on tuberculosis in various journals....
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1948; 137: 656: Samuel Humes Watson, Tucson, Ariz.; Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1899; past president of the Arizona State Medical Association and the Benton County (Ia.) Medical Society; fellow of the American College of Physicians; member of the American College of Chest Physicians and of the American Association for the Study of Allergy; specialist certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine; affiliated with the Barfield Sanatorium and St. Mary's Hospital and Sanatorium; died February 5, aged 70, of cerebral hemorrhage.
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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) 426-430; volume 11, page(s) 220
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Blairstown IA
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