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RailwaySurgery.org - The Archive
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The RailwaySurgery.org Archive. This page holds archived materials such as period documents, articles and images relating to railway surgery. More items will be added periodically, so check back or sign up for the newsletter. June 5, 1894. Vol 1 no. 1. This was the first issue of the official journal of the National Association of Railway Surgeons. The Railway Hospital by Frank H. Caldwell, MD. Color Blindness by D. Emmett Welsh, MD. Remedies Found of Value in Surgical Practice by George Chaffee, MD.
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RailwaySurgery.org - History of Railway Surgeons - BriefVersion
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A Brief History of Railway Surgeons. There is also a. Which contains all the content below, and more. By Robert S. Gillespie, MD, MPH. Railroad surgeons formed a unique medical specialty, operating a vast and innovative network of railroad hospitals and clinics. Nearly forgotten today, this relatively small but dedicated group of doctors made many advances in medical science and embraced an innovative payment system now used by many health insurance plans. A New Specialty Comes of Age. The railroads cont...
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RailwaySurgery.org - History of Railway Surgeons - Full Version
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A Detailed History of Railway Surgeons. By Robert S. Gillespie, MD, MPH. June 5, 1870. July 17, 1897. The plans initially drew vocal objections from the railway employees upset with the involuntary cut in pay. At a time when many people passed their entire lives without seeing a doctor, and most women delivered their children at home, the need for medical coverage must have appeared less than compelling. Surgical historian Ira Rutkow, M.D. noted that the railway medical plans formed an im...George Chaffe...
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RailwaySurgery.org - Testing Vision and Hearing
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Testing Vision and Hearing. By Robert S. Gillespie, MD, MPH. 1 and 2. Dr. Emmet Welsh of Grand Rapids, Michigan, devised a realistic but hardly portable method of testing color vision (above left). His caboose mockup used electric lanterns of different colors. At right is shown a schematic for a similar system, minus the caboose. 5 The color vision test devised by Dr. Thomson, widely known as Thomson’s Stick. Neutral or contrasting colors. Gray; tan, light brown. Brown, sage, dark olive. 7 Some things ne...
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RailwaySurgery.org - About Us
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This website is dedicated to preserving the history of railway surgeons and hospitals, and educating the public about their work and contributions to medicine. Currently there is no physical facility associated with this site. A long-term dream is to establish a railway surgery museum, or an exhibit in another museum. He now practices in Fort Worth, Texas and surrounding areas. Dr Gillespie has published many articles in scientific and popular publications, including Trains. Opens in new window):. Commen...
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RailwaySurgery.org - Become a Railway Surgeon!
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Become a Railway Surgeon! By Robert S. Gillespie, MD, MPH. Railway surgery is a lost specialty today, a footnote in history. You’ll have to find a different career. May I suggest pediatric nephrology? But let’s imagine that you are an aspiring doctor around the year 1900. Here’s what you might do to become a railway surgeon:. Complete medical school. Since the Flexner Report. So he’s a good person to know. Click picture to enlarge). There is no official training program for railway surgery, but try to le...
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RailwaySurgery.org - List of Railroad Hospitals
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Partial List of Major Railroad Hospitals in the United States. By Robert S. Gillespie. These are all the major railroad hospitals of which RailwaySurgery.org is aware. They were not all in operation at the same time. Visit the Image Gallery. Railroad (at time of opening). Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe. And Hinkle Streets; Sold in 1949 and converted to Central Baptist Church; old locomotive bell donated by Santa Fe for bell tower (see Santa Fe. Oct 1953, in the Archive. Las Vegas, NM. La Junta, CO. St Lou...
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Railway Surgery - Image Gallery Main Page
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The Railway Surgery Image Gallery. Is not only pictures; many images have captions with historical information. The gallery is divided into four pages:. Page features pictures of many railroad hospitals as depicted on picture postcards of the period. This page has dozens of pictures and may take some time to load if you have a slow connection! We have so many images of the Missouri Pacific Hospital. It earns its own page. Page contains pictures from railway surgery books and journals, and other sources.
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RailwaySurgery.org - Where to Learn More
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Where to Learn More. This page lists a few major sources to help get you started. For more sources, look at the references in. A Detailed History of Railway Surgery. Or the articles below. Do you have other links or references to suggest? Please contact the author. Aldrich, Mark. Train wrecks to typhoid fever: the development of railroad medicine organizations, 1850 to World War I. Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Kepner, Raymond B. A brief history. Industrial Medicine and Surgery. Short, Henry J.
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RailwaySurgery.org - Army Hospital Trains
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By Robert S. Gillespie, MD, MPH. Most of the RailwaySurgery.org website chronicles railway medicine in the civilian world. This page tells how the U.S. Army used trains for medical evacuation and treatment. For a much more detailed treatment, read. Dr Gillespie's comprehensive article on the history of Army hospital trains, published in. Railroads and World War II. A November 2007 special edition of Classic Trains. Magazine by Kalmbach Publishing. A Brief Summary of Wartime Medical Evacuation by Train.
