Wyatt, Bernard Langdon

Founder and manager, Desert Sanatorium.
Address per 1935 Arizona State Medical Directory: 1800 E. Speedway, 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 381.
Sloan, Richard E. History of Arizona. Phoenix, Record Pub. Co., 1930, volume 3 (Arizona biography), pages 154, 155 [portrait], 157.

Wyatt, Bernard Langdon MD, President, Board of Directors. The Desert Sanatorium of Southern Arizona, Inc. Southwestern Medicine, Apr 1926; 10(4), 183. [Read before sectional meeting of the American College of Surgeons, Tucson, Arizona, February 2, 1926.]

B. L. Wyatt, San Jose, Tamaulipas, Mexico. An Epidemic of Measles in Mexico. New York Medical Journal, January 27, [1906], pp. 23ff.
Bernard L. Wyatt; Kossie L. Buckner. RUPTURED TUBAL PREGNANCY WITH OPERATION. J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1912; LVIII: 1281 - 1282.
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1916; LXVII: 1857: New York. Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, Trudeau Sanatorium, Saranac Lake, has resigned to accept the position of superintendent of the Fayette County, Kentucky, Tuberculosis Sanatorium. Dr. Wyatt will assume his new duties in April, and it is planned to open the sanatorium to receive patients by July 1.
B. L. Wyatt. The Administrative Control of Tuberculosis at New York. Journal de Médecine de Bordeaux, Aug. 10, 1919, 90, No. 15, pp. 316ff.
B. L. Wyatt, New York. Work of Commission for Prevention of Tuberculosis in France in Department of Eure-el-Loire. American Review of Tuberculosis, Baltimore, July, 1920, 4, No. 5, pp. 347ff.
J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1920; 75: 1354: PARIS. (From Our Regular Correspondent). Oct. 15, 1920. The Rôle of the United States in the Antituberculosis Campaign. I have repeatedly referred to the excellent results that have been obtained through the collaboration of the United States in the public health campaign of France, especially in the campaign against tuberculosis. The Comité national de défense contre la tuberculose includes among its membership Professors Calmette, Letulle and Léon Bernard, as well as Dr. Linsly R. Williams, director of the American Commission for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in France (Rockefeller Foundation), and his assistants, Drs. B. L. Wyatt and A. Bruno, and Miss E. Crowell....
J Am Med Assoc, Nov 1920; 75: 1436: Rockefeller Foundation Physician Honored. Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt of the American Commission for the Prevention of Tuberculosis in France, has been made a knight of the Legion of Honor of the French republic in recognition of his services in organizing the French campaign against tuberculosis.
J Am Med Assoc, Aug 1921; 77: 473: Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, recently returned from four years' service in France, as associate director of the Commission for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, International Health Board, Rockefeller Foundation, has resigned from its medical staff to become director of health service with the Laurentide Company, Ltd., at Grand Mère, Quebec. The Laurentide Company plans to organize a modern health and welfare service for the employees of its paper mills and logging centers.
J Am Med Assoc, Mar 1923; 80: 932: Canada. McGill University News. A series of luncheon lectures on industrial medicine was recently arranged by the governors of McGill University, in order to bring before the manufacturing and industrial sections of the community the importance of preventive and sanitary medicine in industry. Dr. B. L. Wyatt, Laurentide Health Service, spoke on "Industrial Medicine"....
B. L. Wyatt, Grand Mere, Que. [=Quebec] Industrial Medicine. Canadian Medical Association Journal, Toronto, February, 1923, 13, No. 2, pp. 114ff.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1924; 82: 640: Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, Grand Mere, Quebec, has resigned from the executive committee of the Canadian Public Health Association to accept an executive position with the Millbank Memorial Fund, New York City.
J Am Med Assoc, Feb 1926; 86: 422: Arizona. Sanatorium Appointments. 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.
B. L. Wyatt, Tucson. Desert Sanatorium of Southern Arizona, Inc. Southwestern Medicine, Phoenix, Ariz., 10:(April) 1926, pp. 183ff.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1927; 88: 1327: Desert Sanatorium Expands. It was announced, April 2, that the Desert Sanatorium, Tucson, will at once begin a program of construction which will triple its present capacity. There will be four new buildings for patients, each containing eight suites of three rooms, four private rooms, and sun terrace and other buildings for nurses and resident physicians. The buildings, which will be occupied about September 15, cost about $300,000. Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, the medical director, will devote his whole time to the institution; Dr. Charles W. Mills is associate medical director, and Dr. Frank C. Balderrey, assistant medical director. There is a board of twenty consultants which includes prominent physicians in various sections of the country. Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore, is the honorary president.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1929; 92: 1357: Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt has resigned as director of the Desert Sanatorium of Southern Arizona at Tucson; during the last year the research institute building, costing $175,000, was opened.
J Am Med Assoc, Dec 1929; 93: 2035: Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, Tucson, has been appointed to the editorial staff of the Acta Rheumatologica which the International League Against Rheumatism decided at the congress in Budapest to publish. The council of the league is appointing four members from each of the affiliated nations to be on the staff; Dr. Wyatt will be one of two in this country who will contribute from the medicosocial point of view.
B. L. Wyatt, Tucson, Ariz. Sunlight and Life. Colorado Medicine, Denver, 26:(April) 1929, pp. 107ff.
J Am Med Assoc, Jun 1933; 100: 1800 [book review]. Chronic Arthritis and Fibrositis: Diagnosis and Treatment. By Bernard Langdon Wyatt, M.D., F.A.C.P., Director, The Wyatt Clinic, Tucson, Arizona. Cloth. Price, $3.50. Pp. 201, with 17 illustrations. Baltimore: William Wood & Company, 1933.
J Am Med Assoc, Jul 1936; 107: 135: Dr. Wyatt Receives the Stacey Award. Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, formerly director of the Desert Sanatorium and Institute of Research, Tucson, has received the James E. Stacey Award for 1936 awarded by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. The award consists of a medal and an honorarium of $100 and is given for significant contribution in the field of focal infection. Dr. Wyatt graduated from New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1905, and for a time was medical officer of health of the district of Abaco, Bahama Islands.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1938; 110: 1373: Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt, Tucson, has received a medal from the Comité National de Défense contre la Tuberculose in France in appreciation of his tuberculosis work during the World War.
J Am Med Assoc, Apr 1947; 133: 1230: Society for Study of Arthritis. The American Anti-Arthritis Association, incorporated in California last September, maintains offices in the Los Angeles County Medical Building, 1925 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. Its purposes are to unite scientific men and women in a broad program of education for the control of arthritis; the development of a more complete understanding of the disease and new technics of prevention and therapy; to promote and engage in research in arthritis and related fields ; to operate with other agencies in carrying on its purposes, and to secure funds for carrying out its projects. Drs. Bernard L. Wyatt, Los Angeles, is president....
JAMA, Sep 1961; 177: 926: Wyatt, Bernard Langdon; Las Vegas, Nev.; born in Tilton, N.H, Nov. 18, 1883; University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, 1905; fellow of the American College of Physicians; medical officer of health, District of Abaco, Bahama Islands, from 1912 to 1915; assigned to Ministry of War, 1917-1918; associate director, the Rockefeller Commission to France from 1917 to 1921; in 1920 recipient of the Chevalier of Legion d'Honneur and Medaille de la reconnaissance française, first class (France); later received a medal from the Comité National de Defense contre la Tuberculose in France in appreciation of his tuberculosis work during World War I; in 1924 secretary of the technical board and member of the advisory council of the Milbank Memorial Fund; received the James E. Stacey Award for 1936 presented by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for significant contribution in the field of focal infection; in 1946 received the Distinguished Service Citation from the New York University College of Medicine; past-president of the American Anti-Arthritis Association, of which he was a founder member and member of the board of directors; member of the board of directors of the American Academy of Applied Nutrition; president and director of the Desert Sanatorium and Institute of Research in Tucson, Ariz, from 1925 to 1929, when he became director of the Wyatt Clinic and president of the Wyatt Research Foundation; senior partner, the Wyatt-Bensema Clinic and Research Laboratories in Tucson, Ariz, from 1941 to 1945; consultant on arthritis to the Lee Foundation; author of publications on arthritis and nutrition; at one time associate editor of Acta Rheumatologica; died June 22, aged 77, of cerebral vascular accident.

WYATT, BERNARD LANGDON. The Limitations of Heliotherapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis. Ann Intern Med. 1930; 4(4):376-378.
Dr. Bernard L. Wyatt (Fellow), Tucson, Ariz., during October completed the incorporation of 'The Wyatt Clinic". Ann Intern Med. 1930; 3(7):773.
Ann Intern Med. 1933;6(11):1511-1512: Chronic Arthritis and Fibrositis: Diagnosis and Treatment. By BERNARD LANGDON WYATT, M.D., F.A.C.P., Director, The Wyatt Clinic; formerly President and Director, The Desert Sanatorium and Institute of Research, Tucson, Arizona. 200 pages, 17 illustrations. William Wood and Company, Baltimore, Maryland, 1933. [book review]