SSV Medicine Magazine of SSVMS

2001

Volume 52, Number 3 - May/June
» Skullduggery by John Ostrich, MD

Volume 52, Number 4 - July/August
» Plagues of the Gold Rush by Irma West, MD

Volume 52, Number 6 - November/December
» The Museum is Open! by Bill Sandberg

2002

Volume 53, Number 2 - March/April
» A Doctor in Quarantine by Eleanor Rodgerson, MD

Volume 53, Number 3 - May/June
» Sacramento's Old State Hospital Rediscovered by David F. Humphers
» Memories of Afghanistan by Eleanor Rodgerson, MD

2004

Volume 55, Number 2 - March/April - A Unique History Issue
» Past and Future History by Richard J.D. Pan, MD, MPH
» Wagons to Sacramento by Robert LaPerriere, MD
» Pioneer Physicians by Irma West, MD
» The CMA was Born Here by Bill Sandberg
» Echoes of Disaster by John Loofbourow, MD
» The Society's Founders by Irma West, MD
» Sacramento's First Hospitals by Eleanor Rodgerson, MD
» A Hideous Stench by By Becky Carruthers and Eileen Kerr
» Early Medical Women by Irma West, MD
» Yolo County's Early MDs by Fred H. Fairchild, MD
» The Chinese Doctor's Role by Franklin K. Yee, MD
» Voices of Medicine by Del Meyer, MD

Volume 55, Number 3 - May/June
» A Brief History of the MD by Wm Peniston, MD
» Gibbon's Future Best Seller by John Loofbourow, MD

Volume 55, Number 4 - July/August
» California Mental Health During the past 40 Years by Joe Tupin, MD
» The Cabot Club Revisited by Otto W. Neubuerger, MD
» Scrubs on the Sidewalk by Eleanor Rodgerson, MD

Volume 55, Number 5 - September/October
» Electropathic Cure-alls: Quack Medical Devices by Randall Leefeldt, MD

Volume 55, Number 6 - November/December
» Brain Machines by Randall Leefeldt, MD
» William W. Light: An Early Dentist, Chemist, Doctor by Irma West, MD

2005

Volume 56, Number 2 - March/April
» Sabin Oral Sundays by Otto Neubuerger, MD

Volume 56, Number 5 - September/October
» Medical Ethics by Eleanor Rodgerson, MD

Volume 56, Number 6 - November/December
» Victorian Heart Disease by Irma West, MD

2006

Volume 57, Number 4 - July/August
» Dr. Thomas M. Logan, a Pioneer of Many Talents by Irma West, MD

Volume 57, Number 6 - November/December
» Tent Treatment and Beyond by Irma West, MD

2007

Volume 58, Number 1 - January/February
» Penicillin in the Vein by Robert LaPerriere, MD
» Shocking Treatment by Kent Perryman, PhD

Volume 58, Number 2 - March/April
» Queen Victoria by Irma West, MD

Volume 58, Number 4 - July/August
» Demystifying Defibrillators by Kent Perryman, PhD

Volume 58, Number 5 - September/October
» The Donner Party Survivors by Stephen A. McCurdy, MD, MPH
» The SSV Museum's Iron Lung - a Nurse's Notes by Anne Rudin

Volume 58, Number 6 - November/December
» "Where There is Need, There is Mercy" by Sister Katherine Doyle, RSM

2008

Volume 59, Number 1 - January/February
» Tuberculosis: Its Long History of Affliction by Irma West, MD

Volume 59, Number 2 - March/April
» Dr. Mary Cronemiller and Health Care a Century Ago by Nan Crussell
» A History of Burn Care Therapy in Sacramento by F. James Rybka, MD

Volume 59, Number 3 - May/June
» The Death of a Young Pathologist in 1890 by Gordon Love, MD and F. James Rybka, MD
» Remembering the Late American River Hospital by John M. Reed, MD

Volume 59, Number 6 - November/December
» California's Ambulance Services During the 1960s by Irma West, MD

2009

Volume 60, Number 4 - July/August
» Parasitic Diseases of Pork by Gordon Love, MD
» Radionics and "Electrical Reactions of Abrams" by Kent Perryman, PhD
» What Medicine Advertised One Hundred Years Ago by F. James Rybka, MD

2010

Volume 61, Number 6 - November/December
» Etta Lund MD, Willows Pioneer Country Doctor by Irma West, MD

2011

Volume 62, Number 5 - September/October
» A New Venue for the Medical History Museum by F. James Rybka, MD

2012

Volume 63, Number 3 - May/June
» Spitting, Today and Yesterday by Irma West, MD
» What’s Hot and What’s Not? Early Electro-thermotherapy by Kent Perryman, PhD

Volume 63, Number 4 - July/August
» Capital Display Shows off our Museum's Treasures by Bob LaPerriere, MD

Volume 63, Number 5 - September/October
» Of Bottles and Bitters by Jack Ostrich, MD

Volume 63, Number 6 - November/December
» Museum Donations Help Bwindl, Uganda by George Meyer, MD, Scott Kellerman, MD, and Bob LaPerriere, MD

2013

Volume 64, Number 1 - January/February
» History of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy by George Meyer, MD
» The Quest for the Perfect Heart Valve by Paul Kelly, MD

Volume 64, Number 2 - March/April
» Cautery to Cutting by Kent Perryman, PhD
» The Bloody History of Transfusion by Nathan Hitzeman, MD and Joy Shen, MD

Volume 64, Number 3 - May/June
» SSVMS Supports Sac County History Day by Bob LaPerriere, MD
» Sacramento Pioneer Surgeon Dr. Junius Harris by F. James Rybka, MD

Volume 64, Number 5 - September/October
» The Waves of the Heart: A Brief History of Electrocardiography by Kent Perryman, PhD

2014

Volume 65, Number 1 - January/February
» Hygiene – Man Does not Live by Soap Alone by Jack Ostrich, MD
 

2015

Volume 66, Number 5 - September/October
» Irma West – Memories of an Early Woman Doctor by Jack Ostrich, MD
 

2016

Volume 66, Number 2 - March/April
» IN MEMORIAM: Robert Brooks Harris, MD

» The Acute Abdomen in Rhyme

Volume 66, Number 3 - May/June
» Early Pain Management and Anesthesia

» Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Volume 66, Number 4 - May/June
» How Colds Are Caught

» IN MEMORIAM: John White Harris, MD

Volume 66, Number 5 - September/October
» Beta Has Our Attention

» Drug Costs - The Cup Runneth Over

» Edinburgh’s Medical History Museums

» Symbols of Medicine – Stop Using the Wrong One

Volume 66, Number 6 - November/December
» Closing the Gap – A Brief History of Suturing
 

2017

Volume 67, Number 1 - January/February
» Dr. Mütter’s Marvels

Volume 67, Number 2 - March/April
» Over 50 Years in Medicine

Volume 67, Number 3 - May/June
» Cannabis – a Drug That is Also a Medicine

» Civil War Medicine - Part 1

Volume 67, Number 4 - July/August
» IN MEMORIAM: Albert J Kahane, MD

» Civil War Medicine - Part 2

» Syphilis Cases and Cost of Treatment are Rising

Volume 67, Number 5 - September/October
» Dementia and Its History

» IN MEMORIAM: Irma West, MD

» Who’d A Thunk

Volume 67, Number 6 - November/December
» Bellevue

» Evolution of the Stethoscope

» Leprosy – Almost a Disease of the Past
 

2018

Volume 68, Number 1 - January/February
» Celebrating 150 Years

» Diphtheria

» Save the Date!

» The Sacred Disease

» The Society’s Founders

Volume 68, Number 2 - March/April
» Blood Bank Expands

» Cholera

» IN MEMORIAM: Richard L. Johnson, MD

Volume 68, Number 3 - May/June
» American Women’s Hospitals Service

» Bad Luck... Good Luck... Bad Luck

» IN MEMORIAM: Daksha A. Shah, MD

» Snake Oil and the Placebo Effect

» Tuberculosis

Volume 68, Number 4 - July/August
» Dr. Morse – Reflections of Early Sacramento

» Smallpox

Volume 68, Number 5 - September/October
» Madhouses and Lunatic Asylums

» Typhoid Fever

Volume 68, Number 6 - November/December
» IN MEMORIAM: Gerald W. Upcraft, MD

» More Reflections on Women in Medicine

» Yellow Fever
 

2019

Volume 69, Number 1 - January/February
» From “Curio Shop” to Medical Museum

» Railroad Hospitals

Volume 69, Number 2 - March/April
» A Pandemic and a Sequel Six Decades Later

» A Tale of Wild Bill, The Ice Man, and The Medical Museum

Volume 69, Number 3 - May/June
» IN MEMORIAM: James Knoblock Hepler, MD

Volume 69, Number 4 - July/August
» The Blood Train

Volume 69, Number 5 - September/October
» The Extraordinary Predicament of Mary Mallon

Volume 69, Number 6 - November/December
» A Booster on Vaccines And Public Health

» Never Home Alone
 

2020

Volume 70, Number 1 - January/February
» New at the Museum

Volume 70, Number 2 - March/April
» Nursing History Room Opens At SSVMS Museum

Volume 70, Number 3 - May/June
» Breathless

Volume 70, Number 5 - September/October
» IN MEMORIAM: Ray F. Fitch, MD

Volume 70, Number 6 - November/December
» The Museum Goes Virtual

» BOOK REVIEW: The Nurses of the Great War 

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