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History of Medicine Associates Dinner The annual
dinner meeting of the History of Medicine Associates of the UAMS Library
will be held September 20, 2001. The speaker will be Dr. Jonathan Wolfe,
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, UAMS. His presentation is entitled:
"Progressivism Comes to Arkansas Medicine: Governor George Donaghey
and Dr. Morgan Smith". Dr. Wolfe presently serves as the president
of the Associates. He is also the curator of the College of Medicine exhibit
being developed at the Old State House Museum. The exhibit will focus
on the period of time when the College was housed at the Old State House
(1912-1935). Dr. Morgan Smith was dean of the college during much of this
period. Tickets for the dinner are $25 per member and $40 per non-member.
For further information contact Margaret Johnson, 686 6733, or johnsonmargareta@uams.edu.
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Gold Headed Cane Presented to HRC A gold-headed cane belonging to one of the founders of the UAMS College of Medicine was recently donated to the Historical Research Center of the Library. Mr. Richard H. Allen Jr. of Memphis, a great-grandson of Dr. Augustus Louis Breysacher, presented the cane to Margaret Johnson of the Center in a small ceremony in the Robert Watson Room on July 20, 2001. Dr. Breysacher was a physician in Little Rock with
a practice specializing in obstetrics and gynecology. In 1880 he delivered
Douglas MacArthur, the future general. He was a close friend and professional
partner of Dr. P.O. Hooper, another Little Rock physician. Both felt a
medical school was needed in Little Rock. In 1879, with six other colleagues,
they formed a private medical school chartered by the Arkansas Industrial
University located in Fayetteville. Dr. Breysacher was a professor of
obstetrics at the school until his death in 1897. He was always elegantly
dressed with the gold-headed cane at his side. An inscription on the handle
of the cane indicates that it was a gift to him.
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