 |
|
The Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
Pamela Derish, MA;
Nancy L. Ascher, MD, PhD
Arch Surg. 2005;140:1143-1148.
|
|
| Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings. |
|
|
|
The Department of Surgery at the University of California (UC), San Francisco, was shaped by Gold Rush–era adventurers who stayed on after the gold ran out. In 1852, South Carolina surgeon Hugh H. Toland, MD, was lured to California by gold fever, crossing the 2000-mile overland route by wagon train. By then, gold reserves were declining and the number of miners was increasing dramatically. Whereas many other forty-niners headed home or turned to poker or crime, Toland established an enormously successful surgical practice in the boomtown of San Francisco. He founded the second medical school, Toland Medical College, in the Far West in 1864, timing that coincided with a new state law permitting the use of paupers’ bodies for study by accredited physicians (Figure 1).1 Through the efforts of Richard Beverly Cole, MD—another Gold Rush pioneer and an accomplished surgeon . . . [Full Text of this Article]
AUTHOR INFORMATION
|
