Texas State Journal of Medicine, Volume 51, Number 7, July 1955 Page: 488
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the Texas Sanitarian of Austin, founded in 1891 by Drs.
T. J. Bennett, R. M. Swearingen, J. W. McLaughlin, and
T. D. Wooten. After four years during which the Southern
Medical Review edited by N. J. Phenix of Houston was
absorbed after only a single issue in June, 1894, this be-
came the Texas 'lledical Neus with Drs. J. W. McLaughlin
and T. J. Bennett as editors. They soon yielded to Dr.
Matthew M. Smith, and the process of amalgamation began.
In Tyler, a journal called Hygeia lived a short existence of
four or five months in 1895 and was blended into the
Southwestern Medical and Surgical Reporter of Fort Worth.
The latter was assimilated by the Texas Aledical News in
1897. The Southwestern Medical Record of Houston after
three years of jousting with Daniel's Texas Medical Journal
succumbed to the expansive mood of the Texas Medical
News in 1899. In Dallas, the Texas Health Journal lived
luridly for nine years, edited by J. R. Briggs, and carried
forward under a new editor as the Texas Medical Practi-
tioner devoted to general practice for a year, then was like-
wise engulfed by the News in 1897. The Texas Medical
News lived for over 20 years and changed its name to
Medical Insurance and Health Conservation in 1916 when
Smith obtained the sponsorship of the Medical Sections of
the American Life Convention and The National Fraternal
Congress of America with 20 associate editors all over the
nation. As Smith's health failed, Mrs. Daniel became man-
aging editor and publisher, returning the periodical to Aus-
tin, the place of birth of the dynasty and bringing the final
change of title to Medical Insurance.
Other Periodicals
Other journals, not related to the royal families, have
also appeared. The Texas Medical Gazette of Fort Worth
expired at age 5 in 1905, apparently stepping aside for the
society journal. In San Antonio, the Bexar County Bulletin
developed into the Medical Annals of Southwest Texas but
lost its identity when it was merged with the South Texas
Medical Record to form Medical Record and Annals under
the business managership of Thomas M. Darlington, who
later moved the offices to Houston, where this journal be-
came the official organ for the Harris County Medical So-
ciety, the South Texas District Medical Society, the Post-
graduate Medical Assembly of South Texas, and the Texas
Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. With this
support, this journal has survived and has consistently pre-
sented a good format with well organized material, although
its scope has been regional. From the Medical Branch of
the University of Texas at Galveston, various publications
have developed. The University Medical from 1895 for 14
years, the Bulletin of John Sealy Hospital and School of
Medicine in the 1930's, and Texas Reports on Biology and
Medicine from 1945 to date are the journals recorded in
this study.
The Dallas Medical Journal began service in 1901 and is
now in its forty-first volume, a neat, small, local journal.
Harris County Medical Society published a Bulletin from
1927 to 1934. The El Paso County Medical Society Bulletin
was published from 1909 to 1916 until its merger with
the Arizona Medical Journal to form Southwestern Medi-
cine. The Tarrant County Medical Society Bulletin was es-
tablished in 1933 and still is fully alive. The Travis County
Medical Journal persisted for four years from 1940 to 1943.
A more recent addition is the Bulletin of the Potter County
Medical Society. The Texas Clinics of Dallas lasted a short
time under editorship of Dr. J. B. Shelmire, and the Med-
ical Bulletin, represented by a single copy in the South-
western Medical School Library, was published by the Dal-las County Medical Society in the 1920's with Dr. J. M.
Martin as editor in chief for an uncertain length of time.
The Homeopathic Pellet is represented at Barker History
Center at the University of Texas by only a scrap from
1883. It originated in Austin with C. E. Fisher as editor
apparently in 1881; after two volumes the name changed to
Southern Homeopathic Pellet for two more volumes. From
1885 until 1897 the journal was designated Southern Jour-
nal of Homeopathy, a monthly journal of medical science
and art described as well edited. During this period the
journal was moved to New Orleans and became the Ameri-
can Medical Monthly until 1904.
The history of the TEXAS STATE JOURNAL OF MEDICINE,
the organ of the Texas Medical Association, is another story.
To the reader of modern medical literature these older
journals in some aspects are woefully inadequate, but the
editorial pages tend to make present publications appear
pale by comparison. The appelations of liar, thief, mounte-
bank, and pretender and similar lurid terms are common-
place in the journalism of that day. Withal there is a sense
of intimacy and homeliness that might be copied with ad-
vantage. For sheer fury one may refer to the Daniel-Briggs
debates in the Texas Health Journal and the Texas Medical
Journal; for humor one may turn to Daniel's report on
Dorset's hurling of the spittoon at the nurse's head at the
State Lunatic Asylum; for excellent reasoning McLaughlin's
series of articles on infection and immunity in the Texas
Sanitarian is worthy of mention; for succinct factual report-
ing there is Texas Medical News. The Texas Courier Rec-
ord of Medicine featured condensations of medical articles
with a format similar to Reader's Digest in its early years.
Appreciation is expressed for aid and comments offered
by Miss Pauline Duffield, librarian of the Texas Medical
Association; Dr. Llerena Friend and Mrs. Marcelle Hamer
of the Barker History Center at the University of Texas in
Austin; Dr. S. V. Connor of the Texas State Archives; and
Mrs. Violet M. Baird, librarian of Southwestern Medical
School of the University of Texas in Dallas.
REFERENCES
1. Nixon, P. I.: Century of Medicine in San Antonio; Story of
Medicine in Bexar County, Texas, San Antonio, published by the
author, 1936.
2. Nixon, P. I.: History of Texas Medical Association, 1853-
1953, Austin, University of Texas Press,.1953.
3. San Luis Advocate, Oct. 20. 1840.
4. Files of medical journals listed, mostly incomplete, with the
exception of Hygeia and Texas Medical Gazette, which so far have
not been located.
J. M. COLEMAN, M. D., Austin, Texas.
108 West Thirtieth.
BOOKS RECEIVED IN JUNE
Benford, R. J.: Doctors in the Sky, Springfield, Ill.,
Charles C Thomas, 1955.
Bett, W. R., Ed.: History and Conquest of Common Dis-
eases, Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Press, 1954.
Diethelm, Oskar: Etiology of Chronic Alcoholism, Spring-
field, Ill., Charles C Thomas, 1955.
Greenhill, J. P.: Obstetrics, Philadelphia, ed. 11, W. B.
Saunders, 1955.
Kohl, S. G.: Perinatal Mortality in New York City,
Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1955.
Lorhan, P. H.: Geriatric Anesthesia, Springfield, Ill.,
Charles C Thomas, 1955.TEXAS State Journal of Medicine
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