Welch, William Henry

Honorary president of Desert Sanatorium.
History of Arizona, 1930. Vol.3., p. 604.

J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1926; 86: 422: Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore, honorary president of the Desert Sanatorium of Southern Arizona, Tucson, has been appointed on the board of directors of that institution for 1926, also Dr. Allen K. Krause of Baltimore; Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, Tucson, has been elected president.
J Am Med Assoc, May 1934; 102: 1513-1514: William Henry Welch; President of the American Medical Association (1910-1911), one of the deans of American medicine, for fifty years an inspiration in American medical education, died in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, April 30, aged 84 years. Throughout his life he exercised an almost magical influence on those who worked with him. His eightieth birthday was marked by a world-wide celebration such as has been accorded to few indeed of the great leaders of American medicine. Innumerable medical honors were bestowed upon him.
Dr. Welch was born in Norfolk, Conn., April 8, 1850....
[illustration caption: William Henry Welch, M.D., 1850-1934]