Dr. Arthur Spohn : surgeon, inventor, and Texas medical pioneer / Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick ; with Charles W. Monday Jr. ; introduction by Kenneth L. Mattox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monday, Jane Clements, 1941- author.

Vick, Frances Brannen, 1935- author.

Monday, Charles W. (Charles Woodrow), Jr., author.

Series:

Gulf Coast books ; no. 23.

Gulf Coast books ; no. 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spohn, Arthur Ed.

Spohn Sanitarium (Corpus Christi, Tex.)--History.

Spohn Sanitarium (Corpus Christi, Tex.).

Spoon family.

Surgeons--Texas--Corpus Christ--Biography.

Surgeons.

Texas.

Medical Subjects:

Surgeons.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2018]

Contents:

The Spohn family, from Canada to the United States: 1776-1845

From the University of Michigan to postwar New York City: 1866-1867

The Spohns to lawless Texas: 1867-1868

Spohn in Texas: 1868-1870

Mier, Mexico: 1870-1872

Corpus Christi, the city by the sea: 1872-1875

A pivotal year: 1876

In New York: 1877

The Wild West: 1878-1881

Medical and family drama: 1882-1884

Tragedy and triumph: 1885-1887

A race to Paris and the Pasteur Institute: 1888

Medical passions: 1889-1894

Challenging times: 1895-1899

A new century: 1900-1905

A hospital at last: 1905

City of the bluff and seas: 1906-1908

Dr. Arthur Edward Spohn's legacy: 1908-1913

Epilogue

Appendix 1. Medical journal articles by Dr. Spohn

Appendix 2. Poetry by and about Dr. Spohn

Appendix 3. Spaun/Spohn, Vela and Vidal, and Kenedy family trees

Appendix 4. Spohn Sanitarium dedicatory address.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781623496906

162349690X

OCLC:

1034566999