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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN TEXAS
VOLUME 56 " NUMBER 4 " APRIL, 1960
Dr. May Owen
BOARD OF PUBLICATION Dr. May Owen, Fort Worth, became the ninety-fifth
Robert W. Kimbro, M. D., Cleburne. President of the Texas Medical Association during the April
Chairman annual session in her home city. She is the first woman ever
G. V. Brindley, M. D., Templeseioinhrom cty
Byron P. York, M. D., Houston to have been so honored by the Texas Medical Association,
Troy A. Shafer, M. D., Harlingen
J. B. Copeland, M. D., San Antonio and is the second woman physician to be so honored by any
" state medical association in the United States. (Her prede-
F. W. Yeager, M.D., Corpus Christi cessor: Dr. Leslie S. Kent, 1947-1948 president of the Ore-
President gon Medical Association.)
One of a large family, Dr. Owen was born on a
* farm in Falls County. Long hours and hard work have
been her way of life since she earned part of her medical
EDITORIAL AND BUSINESS OFFICES school expenses as a part-time medical technician. She
1801 North Lamar Blvd., Austin received her bachelor of arts degree in 1917 from Texas
Telephone: GReenwood 7-9447 Christian University, obtained her medical degree in 1921
C. Lincoln Williston, Executive Secretary
Harriet Cunningham, Managing Editor from the Louisville (Ky.) Medical School, and did post-
E. Maxwell Jones, Business Manager . .
Kenneth P. Knopp, graduate work at the Mayo Clnc Department of Surgical
Advertising Manager Pathology and New York Bellevue Hospital's Medical
* Examiners Department.
PRINTING OFFICES Since 1928, she has been a pathologist-is now chief
c/o Stafford-Lowdon Company pathologist-for Terrell's Laboratories in Fort Worth. Her
1114 West Daggett, Fort Worth 1
deep interest in her work has led to a number of published
" papers, and she has received awards for two specific pieces
Subscriptions: $3 per year for members; of investigation.
$6 for nonmembers; $7 for foreign.
Single copy: 75 cents. The first of these awards, an honorary doctor of science
degree from Texas Christian University in 1936, was for
Copyright 1960 by the Texas Medical what she has said she feels to have been her most important
Association. Owned and issued
monthly by the Association, piece of work: discovery that a talc powder then being used
in surgical gloves was not absorbable and that a speck of
it, falling into a wound during an operation, might cause
scar tissue, adhesions, and peritonitis. (Today a major
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