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July/August 2006: Issue 131
History of Medicine Associates Dinner
“Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Shangri-LA: Disability, Community and Social Entrepreneurship in Warm Springs, Georgia, 1926-1945”
The next annual meeting of the History of Medicine Associates is scheduled for September 14, 2006 in the UA System Offices Board Room. Daniel Holland, PhD, MPH, faculty in the Department of Psychology at UALR, will speak on “Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Shangri-LA: Disability, Community and Social Entrepreneurship in Warm Springs, Georgia, 1926-1945”. Dr. Holland notes that “One of FDR’s missions was to actually repudiate a biomedical model for people with disabilities from polio, advancing, instead, the first glimmers of an independent living and community health model.”
The meeting begins at 6:30 with wine, followed by a buffet dinner that will include: Open faced chicken Cordon Bleu, Twice baked potato, Broccoli/Cauliflower polonaise, Mushroom bruschetta and a dessert of chocolate Michael martinis. The cost is $25 per person for members, or $40 for non-members (which includes a membership to the History of Medicine Associates).
To make reservations for the dinner, ask questions, or make comments;
please contact Amanda Saar
501-686-6733 or SaarAmandaE@uams.edu
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fala and Ruthie Bie at Hill Top Cottage in Hyde Park, N.Y. This is one of only two extant photos of FDR in a wheel chair.
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Photo by Margaret Suckley
The History of Medicine Associates
The History of Medicine Associates is a group that was created to help the Library’s Historical Research Center acquire items that are important to the history of UAMS, the history of medicine in Arkansas, and to the history of medicine in general. Membership is open to anybody who is interested.
Over the years the History of Medicine Associates has helped to acquire and preserve artifacts, like the Bentley Pitcher, and the Brayersacher cane. Most recently, the HMA has helped the HRC to acquire the following items: |
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In March, 2006, the HMA purchased the 12 volume facsimile reprint set of the Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War (formerly the Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion) to replace the HRC’s original set (1870-1888) which was falling apart.
Later in 2006, the HMA purchased and donated the following titles to the Historical Research Center:
Anatome Animalium: terrestrium variorum, volatilium acquatilium, serpentum, insectorum, ovorumque, structuram naturalem ex veterum, recentiorum, proprilisque observationibus proponens, figures variis illustrate, 1681. Gerardi Blasii Amstrelraedamensis, Medic. Doct. & Prof. Ordin.
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Delafield, Francis and Stillman, Charles F. A manual of physical diagnosis.New York: William Woods & Co., 1878. First edition.
This book, published the year before what would become the first medical class of UAMS met in Little Rock, illustrates the type of teaching material available at that time. It has blank pages for a student’s use in clinic, and a foldout with cut outs of the various body parts, still attached to the back cover.
Recently, an anonymous donor has made it possible for the HRC to purchase a most amazing find. The Medicine receipt book. This is a book of receipts copied from an Indian doctor in 1845 in Indiana. The work was copied by another early medical practitioner. It is a hand written account book, very easy to read, and gives insight into the types of “drugs” available on the frontier.
Come by and visit these items or other items in the HRC. For some, we require white cotton gloves (which are provided). All are, or will be, listed in the Library’s online catalog.
If you have questions, comments, want to join the History of Medicine Associates, or want to discuss donating something, please contact Amanda Saar at 686-6733, or SaarAmandaE@uams.edu