1000 Years of Medicine in the Great Basin - Sohn, Anton P.
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This 500-page book chronicles the history of medicine in the Great Basin from the beginning. Shoshone and Paiute Indians lived in the Great Basin for thousands of years and practiced medicine using herbs to treat aliments. More recently, they successfully treated the flu epidemic of 1918. Nineteenth Century American doctors came west in wagon trains to settle the west. Later, Chinese labor was brought across the Pacific Ocean for building the railroad. They brought medicine traditions with them. More recently, medical schools were founded in Reno and Las Vegas to continue development of medicine in Nevada.…mehr

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This 500-page book chronicles the history of medicine in the Great Basin from the beginning. Shoshone and Paiute Indians lived in the Great Basin for thousands of years and practiced medicine using herbs to treat aliments. More recently, they successfully treated the flu epidemic of 1918. Nineteenth Century American doctors came west in wagon trains to settle the west. Later, Chinese labor was brought across the Pacific Ocean for building the railroad. They brought medicine traditions with them. More recently, medical schools were founded in Reno and Las Vegas to continue development of medicine in Nevada.
Autorenporträt
Dr. Anton "Andy" Sohn graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1961, interned at San Francisco General Hospital, and did a residency in anatomical, clinical, and forensic pathology. Captain Sohn served as chief of anatomical and forensic pathology for the U.S. Army in Vietnam from 1967 to '68.After discharge Dr. Sohn practiced medicine for 41 years in Reno, Nevada. During his tenure, he served as director of laboratories and chief of staff at Washoe Medical Center (now Renown Regional Medical Center), president of Nevada State Medical Association, Nevada editor of the Western Journal of Medicine, and director of the Nevada State Health Laboratory. He served as chair of pathology at University of Nevada School of Medicine (now UNRSOM) from 1985 until his retirement in 2009.Dr. Sohn founded the Nevada History of Medicine Foundation to research and record the history of medicine in Nevada's Great Basin. The foundation has sponsored or published 23 books on medicine in Nevada. It has also established an endowment for students who have matched in pathology. Dr. Sohn founded Greasewood Tablettes, a quarterly history of medicine bulletin, which is now in its 32nd year, and established the Great Basin History of Medicine Museum/Library, which is in the Savitt Library at the Reno School of Medicine.