http://user.itl.net/~glen/forfamilyhistoriansintro.html http://user.itl.net/~glen/doctors.html SOURCES FOR TRACING APOTHECARIES,SURGEONS, PHYSICIANS AND OTHER MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/ghinfo5.html#apothecaries http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/faq-hmd.html#genealogy Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from the History of Medicine Division seven 19th century biographical dictionaries of American physicians. The early ones; Thatcher, Williams, and Gross include relatively few individuals. But the ones from the end of the century are much more eclectic and depended heavily on who responded to requests to biographical information. The Kelly and Burrage describes more than 2,000 American physicians; mostly 19th century who in the words of Howard Kelly, "Have done the noteworthy". James Thacher, American Medical Biography 1828 reprinted New York: Milford House,1967) | Stephen Williams, American Medical Biography, 1845 reprinted New York: Milford House, 1967) | Samuel D. Gross, ed., The Lives of Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nineteenth Century (1861) | Atkinson, William B. The Physicians And Surgeons Of The United States. Philadelphia, Robson, 1878. p. 788 Stone, Richard F., editor. Biography Of Eminent American Physicians And Surgeons. 2nd rev. and enl. ed. Indianapolis, Hollenbeck, 1898. p. 857, (the first edition was briefer, published in 1894) Watson, Irving A., editor. Physicians And Surgeons Of America...A Collection Of Biographical Sketches Of The Regular Medical Profession. Concord, New Hampshire, Republican Press Association, 1896. p. 843. Kelly, Howard A., and Walter L. Burrage. Dictionary Of American Medical Biography; Lives Of Eminent Physicians Of The United States And Canada, From The Earliest Times. New York, Appleton, 1928. p. 1,364 Over 17,000 American physicians are briefly listed in Holloway, Lisabeth M., Ernest N. Feind, and George N. Holloway. Medical Obituaries: American Physician's Biographical Notices In Selected Medical Journals Before 1907. New York, Garland, 1981. p. 513. Directory Of Deceased American Physicians, 1804-1929: a genealogical guide to over 149,000 medical practitioners providing brief biographical sketches drawn from the American Medical Association's Deceased Physician Masterfile, 2 vols. Chicago, IL, AMA 1993). Link to the Texas Medical Association List of Directories <http://www.texmed.org/library_catalog/slinks/s000561.htm>. Marie Sampson <mailto:jamsam@cygnus.uwa.edu.au> has this List of Apothecaries (1815-1840) on fiche and is willing to consult it for enquirers. Please give her a reasonable amount of time to reply as she has to take the fiche to her local library in order to read it.