Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 5, Number 1, Spring, 1993 Page: 8
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MEDICAL AMILESTONES I
1840s
Several doctors settle in Dallas and neighboring villages, including Dr. John
Cole, Dr. W. W. Conover, and Dr. Jonathan L. Samson. Dr. James B. Bryan,
brother of Dallas's founder, is the first dentist (1846).
1850s
Two physicians, Dr. Samuel B. Pryor and Dr. Anderson D. Rice, run against
each other in Dallas's first mayoral election (1856); Dr. Pryor wins, 58 votes to
34. Dr. Rice is elected mayor in 1858. Frank S. Sayre establishes Dallas's
first drugstore on the west side of the courthouse square (c. 1855).
1860s
A military hospital is established to care for sick and crippled war veterans
after the Civil War.
1870s
Druggist Henry S. Ervay is appointed mayor by Governor E. J. Davis (1870).
City council passes first sanitation ordinances. A Dallas County Medical
Society is formed (1871), with Dr. L. Elliott as president. It is succeeded by
the Dallas County Medical and Surgical Association (1876), with Dr. H. K.
Leake as president; only doctors holding degrees from schools recognized by
the American Medical Society may join. Dr. Matthias A. Cornelius becomes
Dallas's first Health Officer (1872), serving until 1879. A City Health Department
is created (1873). A two room, frame shack at Wood and Houston streets
becomes a city hospital serving the indigent. Dallas imposes a quarantine as it
battles a yellow fever epidemic (1873). Dr. F. E. Hughes opens the Dallas
Medical Institute (1877) as an infirmary and dispensary for the poor.
1880s
Dr. Robert Henry Chilton opens practice as Dallas's first eye, ear, nose, and
throat specialist (1880). A new Dallas County Medical Society is formed
(1884) with Dr. John Morton as the first president and Dr. Henry Leake as vice
president; unlike its predecessors, this Society survives. A new 25-bed city
hospital opens (1885) on Lamar between Wood and Young streets.8
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