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Biographical NoteThe Pima County Medical Society was founded October 13, 1904. It was the third county society in Arizona and is the second oldest county society in operation in Arizona. In 1909 PCMS called for a state lab so disease outbreaks could positively identified. In 1919 the society worked for better quarantine laws as its members battled at great risk the influenza outbreak. In 1929, it helped establish the nation's first city/county health department and from 1939-1961 it staffed and ran – at no charge -- Pima County Hospital. The minutes of the Pima County Medical Society – and especially those during the early years of its existence – are a unique and primary cultural and historical resource. They provide direct insight into the issues that were important to Arizona physicians of an earlier era (some of which remain important today). They deal with public health problems (milkborne diseases and immunization), social and legal issues (abortion, unethical practitioners, war) keeping up with the latest treatments (heliotherapy for tuberculosis), professional issues (relationship to state and national medical associations, continuing medical education) and many other interesting items. Any thorough study of the history of medicine in Arizona will require access to these minutes. They provide a record of the issues important to physicians as a group. Scope and Content NoteThe collection contains the minutes of the Pima County Medical Society for the years 1904-1954. The 1904-1925 minutes are handwritten; the 1926-1954 minutes are typescripts. The 1904-1920 minutes were entered into a notebook with numbered and lined pages that was subsequently bound (or rebound). The 1921-1925 minutes are handwritten entries in a bound notebook with numbered and lined pages; this binding is now in poor condition. The 1926-1954 were kept in four loose-leaf binders. Comprising approximately 1,250 pages, the collection includes minutes of regular meetings, executive committee meetings, board of directors meetings, and special meetings. It also includes membership lists, membership applications (1926-1939), constitution and bylaws, articles of incorporation, financial reports and some miscellaneous inclusions (draft notes, vote tallies, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, etc.). For many of the dates after November, 1947 there are two sets of minutes -- one for an executive committee or board of directors meeting that was held in advance of the regular meeting and one for the regular meeting. In addition, for both the executive committee/board of directors meetings and the regular meetings, there are often two versions of the minutes. Sometimes there are clear differences -- such as a long and a short version -- and sometimes there are very few, if any, differences between the two versions. Lacunae: In the 1904-1920 volume one leaf, representing numbered pages 141 and 142, is known to be missing. In the July 18, 1919 minutes there is a reference to an attached letter which also was not found in the minutes. A discoloration on blank pages 10 and 11 of the 1904-1920 volume indicates that some item, now missing, was filed between those two pages at one time. Formerly collection number HT 002. A digital version of this collection is available at the Arizona Health Sciences Library website and at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records' Arizona Memory Project. RestrictionsRestrictionsThere are no restrictions on this collection. CopyrightThe Arizona Health Sciences Library (AHSL) owns the paper originals of the 1904-1954 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society (PCMS) and has permission from PCMS to produce and make publicly available the digital version(s). Permission to publish must be requested from PCMS which retains the intellectual property rights of the minutes (Pima County Medical Society, 5199 East Farness Drive, Tucson, Arizona, 85712-2187). AHSL (on behalf of the Arizona Board of Regents) holds copyright to the metadata.It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from theowner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright. Related MaterialPima County Medical Society Minutes, 1973-1994 (HS WB 1 AA7.1 P6 P644a); Pima County Medical Society. Sombrero. (AHSL W1 SO737) Access TermsGeographic Name(s) Pima County, Arizona Tucson (Ariz.) Genre Form(s) History of Medicine -- Arizona Societies, Medical -- Arizona Administrative InformationCredit LinePima County Medical Society Minutes (MS 700). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries Processing HistoryProcessed by Dave Piper in 2011. Container List
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